"Mr. Kitaro has won the award, I have long admired you, the song "Silk Road" you composed a few years ago, but it has benefited me a lot, but it is a pity that I was still in high school when you held a concert in Beijing a few years ago, and I didn't have the opportunity to participate, which is a pity." Li Yange sighed, as if she really regretted not being able to attend that concert for the rest of her life.

"Haha, if Mr. Li wants to hear it, he will have the opportunity to perform in China again in the future, and I will personally give you a few tickets for the concert." Kitaro, who has been famous for many years, has long been tired of listening to the praise of others, but he is very useful for Li Yange's compliment, after all, Ryuichi Sakamoto has always admired Li Yange before, and now the other party seems to be his music fan, and that kind of joy is difficult for ordinary people to experience.

"Then I'm looking forward to Mr. Kitaro's concert tickets." Li Yange smiled, he knew why Ryuichi Sakamoto brought Kitaro over, wasn't it for the synthesis music needed in "Dawn of Heroes".

Kitaro has been in contact with high-tech synthesizers since the early 70s, and was the first to play electronic music, and in 78 he released his first music album "Heavenly Boundary", there was a large amount of electronic synthesized music, and in 80 years he composed the music of the same name for the documentary "Silk Road", he also used a lot of electronic synthesized music, and he is a well-deserved master in terms of electronic synthesizers.

"Definitely, definitely!" Kitaro smiled heartily, and at the end he asked, "I heard from Ryuichi that Mr. Li was recently scoring an animated film from Toei Co., Ltd.?" ”

"Yes, it's about the animated soundtrack of "Three Kingdoms"."

"Then I don't know if Mr. Li has written it?"

"I wrote a few songs, and I'm trying to find a way to record them first, and I was going to go to PolyGram to borrow the recording studio, but I'm not afraid of the jokes of the two, and my album is selling poorly, and I'm embarrassed to borrow it."

Li Yange calmly told the bad sales of the album, after all, sooner or later he will know.

Hearing this, Kitaro didn't ask about the album, but waved his hand and said: "If Mr. Li doesn't mind, you might as well go to my personal recording studio, although it is not as good as Polygram's recording studio, but the equipment that should be available is available, and it is not very far away." ”

"This ......" Li Yange glanced at Ryuichi Sakamoto.

Ryuichi Sakamoto nodded slightly and smiled: "Mr. Li, in Kitaro's recording studio, there are a lot of equipment that I covet. ”

At this time, Li Yange didn't know what Ryuichi Sakamoto meant, and immediately smiled: "Then I might as well be respectful, speaking of which, with Mr. Sakamoto and Mr. Kitaro here, I think it can also help me find out the shortcomings in these songs." ”

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Kitaro Li Yange visited the studio he established, the area of this studio is not large, but there are quite a lot of employees, not to mention more than a dozen, all of them are some excellent young musicians recruited after Kitaro signed with Geffen Records in the United States last year, in order to be able to better concentrate on composing songs, unlike before, after writing songs, you have to find someone to rehearse the effect yourself.

Kitaro handed the manuscript paper handed to him by Li Yange to the female clerk in the studio, "Shizuko, you go and print this score, and then inform everyone to go to the recording studio for rehearsal." ”

"Yes sir." Shizuko nodded, turned around and ran to print the sheet music.

"Let's go! Mr. Li takes you to see my recording studio! ”

Pushing open the door of the recording studio, after the three of them entered, Kitaro said with a slight expression: "Mr. Li, it took me a lot of time to build this recording studio, no matter what kind of music you need, you can use electronic synthesis to produce it!" ”

Seeing the dazzling array of equipment, especially a Sony brand electronic synthesizer, Li Yange secretly smacked his tongue.

This synthesizer he knows, it is the latest electronic synthesizer launched by Sony last year, and its functions have been so perfect that it can almost be said to be omnipotent, and almost all common musical instruments can be produced, no less than electronic synthesizers decades later.

The price of such a good electronic synthesizer is naturally extremely expensive, even Polygram only has two, and Kitaro has one of his personal recording studios, plus the rest of the recording and tuning equipment, you can imagine how much Kitaro spent to build this recording studio.

Ryuichi Sakamoto slowed down, and after being side by side with Li Yange, he smiled and said: "Well, I'm not wrong, not only the recording studio, Kitaro's studio, is one of the best in the entire world." ”

"It's really amazing!" Li Yange nodded approvingly, he hadn't seen some domestic musicians' studios before, but none of them had such extravagance as Kitaro who raised a small band to serve himself.

After a while, Shizuko walked in with the orchestra of the studio, and Kitaro looked at Li Yange and said, "Mr. Li, they are all musicians who I specially found to be proficient in various Chinese musical instruments, and I will hand them over to you next." ”

After saying thank you, Li Yange was not polite, first glanced at the instruments held by the orchestra members, which were more common traditional Chinese instruments such as pipa, guzheng, bamboo flute, erhu, etc., and thought about it in his heart, and then began to direct the orchestra on how to rehearse this piece under the translation of Ryuichi Sakamoto.

The variety of musical instruments was a little less than he expected, but it should be enough to have Sony electronic synthesizers.

This piece is not long, only about three minutes in total, and Li Yange doesn't expect them to perform very well, as long as it can have that effect.

So after telling Kitaro and Ryuichi Sakamoto about the effect of electronic synthesis that they needed, after more than half an hour of simple and rough running-in, everyone gradually became familiar with it, and the performance became more and more mature.

"Great! Mr. Li, your song "Hero's Dawn" is really good, as if it took me into the Three Kingdoms era more than 1,800 years ago, especially with the opening of the trumpet, it grabbed people's ears at once, and the embellishment of electronic harmony that you asked me to use is simply a stroke of genius, not only exaggerating the cruelty of war, but also the expression of endless delicate feelings, with the tactful tone of the pipa, suddenly serious, suddenly tender, but also aggravated this tense and contradictory atmosphere. ”

At the end of the song, Kitaro was amazed.

In my heart, I felt a little more enlightened about Ryuichi Sakamoto's appreciation of Li Yange in my ears in the past.

You must know that no matter how good Ryuichi Sakamoto said before, Kitaro only thought that Ryuichi Sakamoto admired Li Yange, and it was not until he heard the majestic imperial voice of "Memories of the Forbidden City" that he affirmed Li Yange's talent, and now he has witnessed Li Yange's neat and orderly recording of music, so he can understand why Ryuichi Sakamoto admires him so much.

Li Yange said modestly: "Mr. Kitaro has won the award, if it weren't for the help of you and Mr. Sakamoto, I don't think I would have been able to perfect this piece so quickly." ”

"This is not an award, I am an eye-opener today, no wonder Long Yi admires you so much."

"Haha, Kitaro, you now believe in Mr. Li's talent in music." Ryuichi Sakamoto laughed, but suddenly remembered something: "By the way, Mr. Li, I saw that you seem to have a few music scores in your backpack before?" ”

Li Yange said: "Well, it was also written for the animation of "Three Kingdoms". ”

"Oh? I don't know if I can take a look? Kitaro's eyes flashed with joy.

"Absolutely."

Li Yange immediately walked to the sofa seat on the side, took out two music scores from his backpack, and handed them to the two of them: "These two are the episodes I made for animation, namely "Breaking Bamboo" and "Majestic". ”

These two are episodes from the glorious classic game "Three Kingdoms Series", Li Yange liked it before, and this time it happened to be written together.

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