海外碟评 | Merchant of Air Review: 《争鸣》堪称年度艺术摇滚专辑
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《争鸣》是中国另类摇滚乐队——沼泽于11月23日发行的一张专辑。全专辑只有一首歌——与专辑同名为“争鸣”——持续约43分钟的曲目，这是一首超现实、澎湃激烈而又充满诗意的史诗交响曲，在曲中尽情地展现出一种特殊且不朽的声音，体现了截然不同水准的音乐创造力，并将此深刻根植于委婉，朴素且具有感知性的实验主义，无畏地以真诚及卓越的想法创造出一些新的东西，并且独树一帜。
更加突出和精致，同时结合了中国古典乐器和传统音乐元素，形成沼泽有机的、自然的风格，其旋律中流动着一种精神本质——是寓言般的沉着与坚不可摧的平静。然而，凭借一种特殊而又细致的音乐技术，证明了维持这样一个悖论是可以的：更多地与进攻性的风格联盟，但反而又淡化处理雄浑洪亮的声音层，在这种可怕的聚合物中，他们呈现了一种有着后古典与超现实敏感性的氛围摇滚之声，这是极其辉煌和动人的，其内在结构是真实的、并类似于极简主义的。
他们的音乐听起来非常热烈——尽管其风格是趋向平静的——而且《争鸣》此曲以接连不断的变化令音乐保持了持续的创意惊喜，亦让我们对他们无限的创造力而感到兴奋。
这是一堂很棒的音乐实验的课程，考虑到作品同步性，声音的精炼，旋律之优雅，以及复杂的音乐布局，这张一首曲的专辑，是一种令人着迷的声音体验，不但精心制作，更融合了不可逾越的美感——沼泽的音乐能力中最奇妙的元素。若以其始终如一及声音的彻底独创性作为大前提出发，毫无疑问地，沼泽证明了自己是一支了不起的乐队，而《争鸣》堪称“年度艺术摇滚专辑”。
一张史诗般的一首曲专辑，明确地呈现出非凡音乐的激动人心，还有寓言般的独创性，《争鸣》是一种超现实和突破性宏伟之声的体验。我不会怀疑他们在其音乐领域里成为中国最伟大先锋艺术的潜力。当然了，我变得非常迫切想要知道，将来他们会发布怎样的作品。
作者：Wagner / 翻译：Tammy
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[原文]
Birds Contending is an album released on November 23, by Chinese alternative rock group Zhaoze. With only one track – the eponymous Birds Contending – which lasts more than forty-three minutes, this surreal, intense and poetic epic symphony definitely showcases a special and monumental sound, that unravels a vastly different level of musical creativity, profoundly grounded in oblique, frugal and perceptive experimentalism, without fear to display a genuine and exceptional will to create something new, and entirely different.
With a more protuberant and lenient delicacy, that combines classical Chinese instruments and traditional musical elements, the style of Zhaoze is organic and mostly natural, the melodies flow with the spiritual essence of its proverbial calmness and unbreakable serenity. With an exceptional, but meticulous technicality, though, that proves able to sustain a paradox that is fully aligned with more aggressive, but conversely downplayed sonorous layers, the formidable convergence they display of an ambient rock sound with a postclassical surreal sensitivity is exceedingly brilliant and emotional, being essentially genuine and quasi-minimalist in the structure of its inherent nature.
They sound very enthusiastic – despite the calmness of their style –, and the continuous turnarounds Birds Contending do all the time keeps the music a constant inventive surprise, that keeps adding an excitement to their boundless creativity. A great lesson on music experimentation, this one-track album is a rapturous sonorous experience, that integrates with crafted, but imponderable sensibility the most marvelous elements of the group’s musical abilities, concerning synchronicity, sound refinement, elegant melodies, and a sophisticated musical layout. With a general basis that departs from a very consistent and thoroughly original sonorous premise, definitely Zhaoze undoubtedly proves they are a fantastic band, and Birds Contending should be considered the art rock album of the year.
An epic one-track album that definitely displays marvelous musical excitement and a proverbial originality, Birds Contending is a surreal and groundbreaking sonorous experience. I have no doubt about their potential to be China’s greatest underground act in their genre of choice. Certainly, I became very anxious to discover what they are going to release in the future.
Wagner
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