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Unlike their recent improvisation series “wʌndərlænd” and “Scene” which dive into the unexpected moments of their daily lives and sound experimentation, or their widely-acclaimed film scores for “An Elephant Sitting Still” and “Wuhan Wuhan” which are pensive, meditative and precise, “Tempus” makes a very friendly and energetic gesture, asserting where Hualun, as a group of music deviants that have been constantly refining and re-inventing their own sound for nearly 2 decades, stand at the very moment. A sense of purpose can be easily felt through the dedicated selection and editing of the improvised materials, the condensed song structures, as well as the thoughtful sequencing of the tracks: Hualun conjure up a vast expanse of wilderness, which gradually becomes the backdrop for running horses, forests, manufacturing lines, TV screens, city lamplights, and sceneries of the decaying societies - it is as much an ode to the evolution of human civilization as a funeral toll for the uncertain future.
With the surprising presence of various rhythmic elements, the use of sampling, and most importantly, the vivid live instrumentation they honed during countless nights of closed-door improv sessions, “Tempus” is everything but a reoccurrence of any existing genre. Hualun's musical roots such as krautrock, punk rock, and experimental electronic music are fused with ambient, hip-hop, and even dance music that the city-dwelling members are (in)actively exposed to in the modern-day life environments, and thus melted into a "unperiodizable" amber of pure energy and excitement.
Tempus 的诞生,是越来越多的音符在意外排列中突然显明整体面貌的一连串时刻;那是如今仍在延展的时间线尽头之外的一片未被发掘的时空地带,一片游离在人的直接意图之外、代表着可能性的荒野;只有当乐声响起,人类踏响文明的随机节拍,荒野才逐渐成为森林、奔马、生产线、电视屏幕、城市灯火和衰败社会景观的背景——它既是对人类文明进化史的回溯性想象,又是为不确定的未来鸣响的葬钟。
回过头梳理自己的主观情感和这些直觉引领下诞生的声音画面,是花伦此次创作中的重要一环:更多的筛选、初剪和再创作,以及对专辑完整性、后期制作和曲名曲目顺序等细节的思考,为 Tempus 感性、抽象的声音意涵增加了奇妙的理性支点,让作品在时间和空间维度上的存在可以更为宽广。“所有场景给我们的感觉都是遥远的。” 丁茂的总结与明康和胡超的感受十分一致——“Tempus 有一种穿越感…”“…似乎真的描绘了自己从未经历的时代发生过的一些碎片。”
Ding Mao 丁茂 - Synthesizer 合成器
Zhu MK 朱明康 - Guitar 吉他 / Synthesizer 合成器
Rubey Hu 胡超 - Keyboard 键盘
Wang Wei 王伟 - Bass 低音吉他
Composed and Produced by Hualun
歌曲创作及制作:花伦
Mixed and Mastered by Michael Wheeler, Silver Wave Sound, Scotland
混音及母带 制作:米高伟拿(苏格兰)
Recorded at NSO Studio, Shenzhen, 2021
二零二一年录制于深圳 NSO Studio
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