Inside the recording studio.

Li Yange wore big black headphones and listened to the performance of the "Dunhuang Orchestra" with Huang Zhan beside him.

The song recorded now is "The Dream of the Hexi Corridor", and it is also a piece of music that Li Yange personally likes very much to depict the style of the Western Regions of Dunhuang.

This "Dream of the Hexi Corridor" is the theme song composed by the 2013 palace-level new century music master Yanni for the domestic documentary "Hexi Corridor", the most classic part of this song is that it perfectly uses music to interpret the process of collision and integration of ethnic cultures of various countries on the "Silk Road" thousands of years ago.

The perfect combination of history and today, East and West, classical and modern, complements each other.

When you first listen to this piece, you may subconsciously think that this is a typical Dunhuang Western Regions style repertoire, but in fact, the trombone, violin, harp, timpani, Duduk and other musical instruments used in this piece are quite a few of the musical instruments transmitted from the West through the Silk Road.

Just like the violin, it is not the "cello" or "violin" that we are familiar with today, but a kind of huqin.

Xu Ke, a writer at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, wrote "Qing Barnyard Banknotes, Music, Violin" recorded: "Violin, the log is a groove, the python skin is empty on the top, the bamboo handle runs through the groove, the handle end is carved with wood for the dragon's head, the handle has a small ring, runs through the four strings in it, the groove surface is flat, and the column is set to bear the strings." The bamboo piece is a bow, and the horsetail is double-stringed, and it is rolled from time to time. ”

This is a very old musical instrument, which has been handed down to this day, and it has taken Li Yange a long time to meet a very famous senior in the music industry in Beijing through the relationship of the school, and learned from him that there are still people in Gansu who use this kind of "violin"!

I borrowed a "violin" from the local area, the style is roughly similar to the huqin, and the playing method is similar, which also saves Li Yange from the idea of borrowing people from Gansu again.

It can be said that Li Yange really spent a lot of energy and cost for this concert at the Lincoln Center for the arts, and it was a little better in Beijing, and the seconded orchestra members were all temporarily living in the dormitory arranged by the school.

But when he came to Hong Kong to record the album, in order to provide a good undisturbed environment for the orchestra members, he also rented an entire floor of a hotel closest to PolyGram's headquarters building, and various expenses cost thousands of Hong Kong dollars every day.

As the orchestra members in the recording studio finished playing, Huang Zhan excitedly took off his headphones and said: "Yan Ge, your song is really good, so that I, who have never been to the Hexi Corridor, can imagine in my mind that the magnificent and magnificent scenery of the yellow sand!" ”

"Uncle Zhan is polite, if you go to the Hexi Corridor in Gansu in person, you will know that what I depict in my music is less than one-tenth of the real one." Li Yange shook his head modestly, although he had never been to Gansu in his life, he had traveled by car with a few friends in his previous life.

Sichuan Province is still quite close to Gansu, and you can go all the way to the ancient Silk Road of the Hexi Corridor by taking National Highway 213.

Many people know about the Silk Road, but they don't know where it is. In fact, the scope of this road is very wide, it spans Zhangye, Wuwei, Jinchang, Jiuquan, Jiayuguan and Dunhuang, and there are many historical sites that can be seen on the way. For example, there are hundreds of sites such as Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes, Jiayuguan Castle, Hanging Great Wall, Yumen Pass Ruins, Wei and Jin Mural Tombs, etc., all of which belong to the scope of the ancient Silk Road.

Li Yange said that this song only expresses the magnificent Silk Road beauty of one-tenth, absolutely not just a joke, when he and a few friends spent two months of summer vacation, only to travel half of the Silk Road, you can imagine this stretch of China's thousands of years of history of the "Silk Road", its scene and ruins are how spectacular.

"Good! I'll definitely check it out if I have the chance! Huang Zhan nodded solemnly, looking sincere, as if he had made up his mind to go and see.

In fact, Huang Zhan is really going to go to the mainland to take a look again and take a walk.

He is known as one of the four great talents in Hong Kong, both composers and lyrics are praised, last year with the "Tao", an episode of a Chinese ghost story, was praised by the media for his bohemianism, and his early works were praised as the heroic and majestic of the song!

At that time, Huang Zhan was still complacent, but after listening to Li Yange's "Memories of the Forbidden City", "The Dawn of Heroes", and even the current song "Dream of the Hexi Corridor", he realized that the songs he created seemed to be heroic and uninhibited, but compared with Li Yange's kind of work, the feelings of the family and the country, and the magnificent sound of the world in the grasp, after all, it is just the kind of informality in the rivers and lakes depicted in martial arts!

Looking at the picture of Li Yange entering the recording studio and communicating with the orchestra members, the young appearance of the other party, Huang Zhan was stunned for a while, shook his head, and said to himself: "Sure enough, it is still an outstanding person from the land of China, it seems that it is time to return to China for a walk, see the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, and look for inspiration." ”

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Time flickered, half a month passed, and it came to the end of August.

Li Yange's instrumental album "Dunhuang" has finally been recorded, and now it only needs to wait for post-production to start production in the factory, and Polygram has also begun to do publicity and distribution work for this album, and by the way, preparations for Li Yange's solo concert in September.

After the recording, Li Yange took the big guy to visit Hong Kong at this time in accordance with the agreement with the temporarily established "Dunhuang Orchestra". I have to say that the gap between Hong Kong and the mainland at this time is really quite large.

Beijing is currently one of the best developed cities in China, on the one hand, because of the façade of the capital country, it has been vigorously developing urban construction since the reform and opening up.

On the other hand, because of the upcoming 1990 Asian Games, almost all districts of Beijing have construction sites under construction.

After playing on Hong Kong Island for almost three days, Li Yange was about to take the big guy to the United States and prepare for the solo concert on the 6th of next month.

Li Yange, who couldn't shirk it, had to agree to the appointment.

"Mr. Li, let me introduce you, these are my good friends Amei, Fa Ge, and Ahong."

Today is a family banquet, Leslie Cheung not only invited Li Yange, but also called several of his good friends.

Li Yange was very familiar with the three people in front of her, and after smiling and saying hello to them one by one, she saw a little girl behind Anita Mui, who looked a little familiar, and always felt that she had seen it somewhere.

Without waiting for Li Yange's curious inquiry, Leslie Cheung said: "Mr. Li, this is an apprentice of a good friend of mine named Wang Jingwen, and he is also a newly signed artist in our company. ”

After Leslie Cheung left Polygram the year before last, he signed a contract with Xinyibao Records, and he can be said to be a well-deserved brother of Xinyibao Records, so the company intends to let Wang Jingwen, a very talented newcomer, study behind Leslie Cheung for a period of time.

Wang Jingwen stretched out her hand enthusiastically and said: "Hello Mr. Li, my name is Wang Jingwen, I am your music fan, I have heard your album of the same name "Yan Ge" a long time ago. ”

Recognizing this as the famous queen in the future, Li Yange's face was a little strange, he is now very familiar with Dou Dawei, and he doesn't know if these two will meet again after the world of his little butterfly.

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