来自Aquarius Records 的乐评/翻译：杨易辰
我们最新的、并且已经让我们着迷的发现是一队叫做“Chui Wan”的来自北京的实验四人组，根据厂牌的介绍，他们的音乐最初受The Beach Boys, Arthur Russell, Les Rallizes Denudes和Sun City Girls等的影响。不过按照常理来说，一个乐队的音乐应该不可能听起来和这么多完全不同的乐队都相似，但对于Chui Wan来说，他们制造的声音也并不像我们最初想象的那样----并不是说我们没有认真听，相反，听的很多很多，事实上我们认为我们对Chui Wan的这张唱片挖掘极深，可以说这张唱片是我们最近拿到的这些中国乐队唱片中最喜欢的一张，但是他们制造的声音也是十分难以界定分类的。专辑的开始是轻缓、Jangle Pop即兴式纯器乐的演奏，跳脱的贝司线、闪闪发亮的吉他音符、Krautrock式的4/4拍节奏被潺潺倾泻下来的令人眩晕的旋律和钟鸣一般如蜘蛛爬行的吉他演奏所包围。我们已大概做好了整个专辑都是如此进行的时候，第二首歌猛然钻入耳中。失真的吉他和令人亢奋的鼓点，还有不得不提的听起来像湿湿的回声的奇怪的人声和大量的迷幻漩涡。这首歌从令人致幻发展到混乱的令人癫狂，穿插着一些棱角分明的数字流行气质。这可能是一个奇怪的混合，但效果十分赞，听起来就像反常版的Television再加上一些Boredoms的感觉，配上大量的嗑药般迷幻的演奏。
在这样的kraut-groove和迷幻前卫的氛围中，乐队也加入了令人迷人心醉的中提琴旋律，空气一般盘旋空中的和谐人声，大量的先锋派编曲，精巧布置的采样，东方味十足的旋律，炫目的电气声和特殊效果。专辑中的有些歌像是迷幻拉珈曲，又有一些像是犹太人演奏的音乐，更有一些听起来似乎像是部落的挽歌。专辑最后的结尾曲接近十一分钟，听起来感觉像是doom-prog/kraut-folk，庄严且宏大，录制的也较为奇怪，声音听起来十分的脆，编排也很奇怪。这首歌曲的整个后半段，剥去了所有的噪音，只剩下号角般的吉他声，点彩画般的钢琴声，令人眩晕的合成器声，层次感的电子和奇怪的采样漫无目的延伸，非常非常的致幻且令人亢奋，如体验麻醉药的幻觉效果一般。
总之，我们向太空摇滚、迷幻摇滚、实验、前卫先锋派流行乐，以及中国新独立音乐场景中更怪一面的爱好者们，推荐这张专辑。
Out latest discovery / obsession comes from this Beijing based experimental four piece called Chui Wan, who according to the label, count Beach Boys, Arthur Russell, Les Rallizes Denudes and the Sun City Girls among their primary influences, but as always, there's no way a band could possibly sound like that, and Chui Wan, to our ears at least don't really sound like what we imagine that band math would produce, but that's not to say we don't dig it, we do, a LOT, in fact this is one of our favorite of all the Chinese records we've gotten in recently, but the sound is a bit harder to pigeonhole, the opener is a sort of loping, instrumental jangle pop jam, all blooping basslines, shimmering guitars, and motorik rhythm, surrounded by burbling cascades of swirling melodies, and chiming spidery guitars, so we were kind of prepared for a whole record of that, but then the second track swoops in, all distorted guitars, and driving drums, not to mention some strange echo drenched vocals, lots of swirling psychedelia, the track veering from spaced out mesmer to heavy, chaotic freakout, with brief bits of mathy angular pop, it's a weird mix, but it somehow works, at times sounding like a warped WTF version of Television, maybe with a little Boredoms mixed in, with plenty of spaced out psych jamming, and hypno-kraut grooves.
And amidst all this krautgroove and psychedelic drift, the band add swoonsome viola melodies, soaring ethereal vocal harmonies, plenty of almost proggy arrangements, subtly deployed samples, Eastern melodies, swirling electronics and FX, with some tracks sounding like psychedelic ragas, others blossoming into horn flecked almost-klezmer, and still others field recording laces tribal dirges. The record finishes with a nearly eleven minute closer, that's like some sort of doom-prog / kraut-folk, epic and majestic, weirdly recorded so the sounds are all blown out and crumbly, the arrangement strange too, in constant flux, the whole final half of the song peeling back all the noisiness, leaving just a gorgeous sprawl of processed horns, pointillist pianos, swirling synths, layered electronics and strange samples, super heady and hypnotic, tripped out and utterly mesmerizing.
WAY recommended, for fans of space rock, psych rock, experimental avant pop, and the weirder side of the new wave of Chinese indie rock...
在这样的kraut-groove和迷幻前卫的氛围中，乐队也加入了令人迷人心醉的中提琴旋律，空气一般盘旋空中的和谐人声，大量的先锋派编曲，精巧布置的采样，东方味十足的旋律，炫目的电气声和特殊效果。专辑中的有些歌像是迷幻拉珈曲，又有一些像是犹太人演奏的音乐，更有一些听起来似乎像是部落的挽歌。专辑最后的结尾曲接近十一分钟，听起来感觉像是doom-prog/kraut-folk，庄严且宏大，录制的也较为奇怪，声音听起来十分的脆，编排也很奇怪。这首歌曲的整个后半段，剥去了所有的噪音，只剩下号角般的吉他声，点彩画般的钢琴声，令人眩晕的合成器声，层次感的电子和奇怪的采样漫无目的延伸，非常非常的致幻且令人亢奋，如体验麻醉药的幻觉效果一般。
总之，我们向太空摇滚、迷幻摇滚、实验、前卫先锋派流行乐，以及中国新独立音乐场景中更怪一面的爱好者们，推荐这张专辑。
Out latest discovery / obsession comes from this Beijing based experimental four piece called Chui Wan, who according to the label, count Beach Boys, Arthur Russell, Les Rallizes Denudes and the Sun City Girls among their primary influences, but as always, there's no way a band could possibly sound like that, and Chui Wan, to our ears at least don't really sound like what we imagine that band math would produce, but that's not to say we don't dig it, we do, a LOT, in fact this is one of our favorite of all the Chinese records we've gotten in recently, but the sound is a bit harder to pigeonhole, the opener is a sort of loping, instrumental jangle pop jam, all blooping basslines, shimmering guitars, and motorik rhythm, surrounded by burbling cascades of swirling melodies, and chiming spidery guitars, so we were kind of prepared for a whole record of that, but then the second track swoops in, all distorted guitars, and driving drums, not to mention some strange echo drenched vocals, lots of swirling psychedelia, the track veering from spaced out mesmer to heavy, chaotic freakout, with brief bits of mathy angular pop, it's a weird mix, but it somehow works, at times sounding like a warped WTF version of Television, maybe with a little Boredoms mixed in, with plenty of spaced out psych jamming, and hypno-kraut grooves.
And amidst all this krautgroove and psychedelic drift, the band add swoonsome viola melodies, soaring ethereal vocal harmonies, plenty of almost proggy arrangements, subtly deployed samples, Eastern melodies, swirling electronics and FX, with some tracks sounding like psychedelic ragas, others blossoming into horn flecked almost-klezmer, and still others field recording laces tribal dirges. The record finishes with a nearly eleven minute closer, that's like some sort of doom-prog / kraut-folk, epic and majestic, weirdly recorded so the sounds are all blown out and crumbly, the arrangement strange too, in constant flux, the whole final half of the song peeling back all the noisiness, leaving just a gorgeous sprawl of processed horns, pointillist pianos, swirling synths, layered electronics and strange samples, super heady and hypnotic, tripped out and utterly mesmerizing.
WAY recommended, for fans of space rock, psych rock, experimental avant pop, and the weirder side of the new wave of Chinese indie rock...
