Summer Insects Talk About Ice | 夏虫语冰

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	1.	Growing Up Alone \| 孤独的成长 00:32
	2.	Everything Is Ready Except Courage \| 万事俱备只欠勇气 00:32
	3.	Moon... Move! Moths! \| 蛾蛾蛾 00:32
	4.	An Unsociable Ant \| 一位不合群的蚂蚁 00:32
	5.	The Clown Is Shit \| 粪土万户侯 00:32
	6.	Twilight Faded Away, Stars and Fireflies Twinkling In Lake \| 纷飞萤落霞散尽满湖星 00:32
	7.	On Horseback, To Faraway \| 马背上的远方 00:32
	8.	Mantis Trying to Stop Chariot \| 螳臂当车 00:32
	9.	Dayfly Cherishes the Day Life \| 珍惜短暂蜉蝣叹 00:32
	10.	Adventure in Freezer \| 雪柜历险记 00:32
	11.	Summer Insects Talk About Ice \| 夏虫语冰 (full length) 05:25

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Zhaoze | Summer Insects Talk About Ice
沼泽乐队 | 《夏虫语冰》专辑

How dare the inscets live during Summer to talk about the ice in winter? Does it work to tell an epic of the microcosmos in only 5 minutes?

Each song in 32 seconds? Is that the latest album of Zhaoze, the band who always compose a work longer than ten minutes somtine even near 1 hour?
Yep. It's an indeed mini album: Summer Insects Talk About Ice.

The titile is inspired by the phrase from Collected Commentaries of Zhuangzi, "夏虫不可以语于冰者，笃于时也。", which means you could hardly talk about the winter ice with the insect which won't live through the summer, and has been extended to decribe that people are limited to what they see and hear, and their knowledge is always short-sighted.

But Hoyliang named it in a further meaning.
The insects born and died in summer, yet to talk about the ice and snow in the distant winter; and how much content and meaning could be expressed by these only 32-sec length songs which are ephemeral like those insects?
Sure, from the perspective of the insect, to listen to these music work, already took it too much time of its life.
There's another phase "寄蜉蝣于天地，渺沧海之一粟", from the poet Su Shi in ancient China, which means: "life is like ephemera in the world, a drop in the ocean". Yet for the scale of university, a human being is far more tiny.

The project was started early this year, after Hoyliang met an album <PRSNT>, which produced by a group of artists: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Lafawndah, Lyra Pramuk, Lucrecia Dalt and Visible Cloaks and others. The average length of these tracks is about 32 minutes.
It’s been told in this project:
(According to a study,) “around a third of all listeners using digital platforms skip to the next track, within the first 30 seconds of playing.”
“if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em”
“Each musician was given a fascinating challenge to create engaging compositions with real artistic merit, inside the confines of this shortened span.”
…
Zhaoze felt that this concept is really awesome!

Furthermore, in ancient China, there's a traditional style of quatrain – Jueju poem, which has the strict rules: only 5 or 7 words per line, and relevant pattern, beat, accent, rhyme, and even couplet, and so on. No matter how severe these rules are, yet thousands masterpieces had been composed in this way.
Less could tell more.

So, Zhaoze decided to take this challenge too.
Then they produced this album, Summer Insects Talk About Ice.

Gone even further on restriction, each song is limited in just 32 seconds, but not approximate, and still based on Zhaoze's own music style.
10 music tracks, like 10 jueju poems, or 10 hint fictions, about 10 species of insect.

Summer Insects Talk About Ice

1. Growing Up Alone | Butterfly

2. Everything Is Ready Except Courage | Cricket

3. Moon... Move! Moths! | Moth

4. An Unsociable Ant | Ant

5. The Clown Is Shit | Dung beetle

6. Twilight Faded Away, Stars and Fireflies Twinkling In Lake | Firefly

7. On Horseback, To Faraway | Horsefly

8. Mantis Trying to Stop Chariot | Mantis

9. Dayfly Cherishes the Day Life | Dayfly

10. Adventure in Freezer | Fly

Zhaoze
Hoyliang: Guqin, Xiao, Keyboard
Littledream: Guitar
Roy: Bass, Harmonica
Seasean: Drums, Mallet Keyboard

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released December 15, 2021

Zhaoze 沼泽
Hoyliang: Guqin, Xiao, Keyboard 海亮：古琴、箫、键盘
Littledream: Guitar 细辉：吉他
Roy: Bass, Harmonica 阿来：贝司、口琴
Seasean: Drums, Mallet Keyboard 海逊：鼓、槌击键琴

Composing / Arrangement: Zhaoze
Creative director / Producer: Hoyliang
Mixing / Mastering: Seasean
Recorded: Zhaoze, Park

Art design: Seasean
Pianting: Deng Yukang, Yiqian
Calligraphy: Liang Dexing

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Zhaoze Guangzhou, China

沼澤Zhaoze, the one and only, electrify Guqin (most traditional Chinese instrument), and combines it with Post-rock, Progressive rock and more, makes up a unique imaginative sound spectrum, to provide a soulful, dreaming and beautiful poetic world.

Hoy: Guqin, Xiao, Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals / Littledream: Guitar, Mini Keyboard / Roy: Bass, Melodica, Harmonica / Seasean: Drums, Mallet Keyboard ... more

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