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Hallucination (1999) With the help from E band which consists of several veteran Beijing rockers, former The Face guitarist (Deng) Ou Ge, bassist Chen Jin, drumnmer Shan Xiao Fan, Do Wei began another journey into his boderless music realm. This time, he draw influences from British Experimental Ambient band, Bark Psychosis. The music weaves a series of atmospheric set pieces. The songs find a common ground between accepted musical formulas and surprising innovation, Unlike all other chinese music at the time. It truely brings the international feel to the chinese music scene. The tracks are all tightly structured, yet by avoiding the dynamics of conventional songcraft like choruses and solos, they come with ease and remarkable dexterity. Some tracks are melodic and finely-honed as compared to some ambient
soundscape songs. Hallucination begins with borrowed materials from
Bark Psychosis, but they transform the record into something mysterious,
haunting and breathtakingly visionary. |
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