Yesternight Yes Tonight | 琴晚

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Nanahara Superb Mix between traditional eastern music (and instruments) and western music-style.
Very dreamy and fresh soundscapes. Favorite track: 03:00 Sleepy Child Sweety Smile | 寅時稚兒笑.

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Birds Contending | 争鸣, 1911 [Re-mixing 2018], If I Lose My Youth | 如果我失去了青春, Yesternight Yes Tonight | 琴晚, Intoxicatingly Lost | 沉醉不知处, Yond | 远, Into Your Dream (For A Film) | 入夢令, 1911, and 1 more. , and , .

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1.	17:00 The Worthless \| 酉時廢柴 05:06	lyrics
Instrumental, no lyrics. 走出大厦，一阵闷热涌至，比挣扎穿出了雾霾的阳光更迅猛。我仿似从某个时空穿越回来，才刚刚醒转，而清醒时的烦懑更叫人心慌。
2.	19:00 See You In The Dusk \| 戌時人約黃昏後 06:19	lyrics
Instrumental, no lyrics, but there is a relevant poem: 镜子两鬓灰花皱脸屋檐半生编织巢网车窗一只挣脱纸鸢茶馆数杯微澜旧忆犹未已卅载断续相思 ——海亮 Hoyliang
3.	21:00 Stars In My Closing Eyes \| 亥時閉上眼望星 08:27	lyrics
亥时闭上眼望星 21:00 Stars In My Closing Eyes 作词：海亮 Lyrics: Hoyliang (cantonese) 闭上眼城市灯光消散泛起心底记忆星空是那样璀璨童年时我爱发问沉默星空正好倾诉夜深我会信自有得意秘密藏在光影转弯一角在跳跃歌唱思绪在飞呵从不知倦疲地想象 (mandarin) 旋转在闪耀车儿粼粼船儿穿行我骑着马儿和流星追逐咿呀咿呀咿呵 (cantonese) 已远去独有琐碎与倦疲明白当初简简单惊叹已告别不再光阴在飞在拉扯我倒退那快追上 (mandarin) 旋转我闪耀亿万斯年如一瞬间再没有恐惧孤单彷徨咿呀咿呀咿呵啦啦啦嘿呀嘿咿呀咿呀咿呵
4.	23:00 Lonely Shadow Would Dance \| 子時孑影舞 05:01	lyrics
Instrumental, no lyrics. 孤独的影子会跳舞
5.	01:00 Two Dimensions 2015 \| 丑時二維乙未篇 06:11	lyrics
丑时二维乙未篇 01:00 Two Dimensions 2015 作词：海亮 Lyrics:Hoyliang I have turned right Then I'll go back I know I can go forward Even walk across the line Cause I am free So that I can make a choice I also know that before I go Might well stay a little while Yes I am free So that I can make a choice But I found that no matter where I go I can not go out of this surface But I found that no matter where I go I can not leave this surface
6.	03:00 Sleepy Child Sweety Smile \| 寅時稚兒笑 04:00	lyrics
Instrumental, no lyrics, but there is a relevant poem: 推门甫惊醒稚儿笑惺忪未问归何晏倏忽睡已浓 ——海亮 Hoyliang
7.	05:00 Early Bird \| 卯時早鳥 05:33	lyrics
Instrumental, no lyrics. 加班狗与晨歌与清脆的阳光

about

Zhaoze - Yesternight Yes Tonight

It's the first album recorded with an eletrical Guqin on the world.
Hoyliang had been playing electric Guqin quite many years, but it is the first time that he used it to record an album, while he had record the earlier albums with the acoustic Guqin.

Although Guqin is the most traditional chinese string instrument with more than 3000 years history, Zhaoze think that Guqin can be played in a contemporary way, and Guqin can also use to describe the emotions and stories of nowadays, like they did in this album.
It is a concept album, they came up an idea that setting background in Guangzhou, a modern city, and telling 7 different stories of 7 different people happened during sunset in 5 p.m. to sun rise in 5 a.m..

What’s interesting about this album is that the cantonese pronunciation of the album’s Chinese name——“qin wan” is a homophone for the Chinese words——“yesternight”, although the meaning of “qin wan” is “the night of Qin” (Qin is Guqin’s ancient name).

It's mainly instrumental, but 1 song with lyrics in both cantonese and mandarin, and 1 song with lyrics in english. Hoyliang said, chose different language to writing the lyrics, also can be regarded as a symbol, as Guangzhou is also a multi language environment.

And, there are 5 songs that Hoyliang used a cello bow to play the Guqin, and there are 3 songs that he played Xiao, a kind of chinese flute. Seasean had been playing the glockenspiel while he‘d been playing drums simultaneously in 5 songs. Roy had played melodica in the last song, after he playing it in the album Cang Lang Xing 5 years ago.

This time Zhaoze no more limited in its usual Guqin mixing Post-rock style, tried to blend with more new elements in its music, like Post-punk, Canton-rock, Shoegaze, Folk, Math-rock, Jazz, Classical, etc..

The album is including with CD and DVD with the same length of time. The DVD part is a some kind new style video that difficult to classify, it's a documentary about partial recording process, and is also a virtual concert about peforming of the album, which filming in the rooftop of a building, while it is also a scenery video of Guangzhou's streets views.

The first release of the album in China is a USB disk special version, and the sleeve is a cup which can also be taken to drink.

credits

released October 11, 2015

Zhaoze
Hoyliang: Guqin, Xiao, Vocal
Littledream: Guitar
Roy: Bass, Melodica
Seasean: Drums, Glockenspiel

Music composing/ Arranging: Zhaoze
Creative director/ Producer/ Lyrics: Hoyliang
Midi arranging: Zhaoze
Mixing/ Mastering: Park
Recording: Park, Zhaoze

Art design: Seasean
Drawing: Chaos
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.

Hoyliang: Guqin, Xiao, Vocal / Littledream:Guitar / Roy:Bass, Melodica / Seasean:Drums, Glokenspiel ... more