silver sea

The East River seems to have no boundaries, and some people left without leaving iron marks on the city.

After Julie went abroad, she gave up using her phone number and seldom used QQ. Qiu Sheng occasionally saw her posting a few words on Weibo, falling in love and breaking up.What she said was like a little gossip after drinking, Bai Yanhui didn't show up again for several months, Qiu Sheng quickly put it behind.

He has so many things to do, he doesn't have time to spare a certain part of his energy for his former partner who is worried about his boyfriend.

Yinshan and Taiguo signed a contract, and the other party will support their album release as an independent record company in the next ten years, and arrange tours, music festivals and other band activities.Several other young bands from Donghe also signed contracts with Yinshan at the same time, including Woken with Xu Ran as the center.

However, unlike Woken and other bands, Yinshan had already recorded seven to eighty-eight first albums before signing the contract, and it could be released immediately.The manager in charge of them, Liu Wangyu, is a shrewd and capable woman with an unusually sensitive sense of music. She believes that Yinshan's music deserves more sophisticated production, and soon the music will be released mainly digitally, so it is inevitable to update and improve the sound quality in time, so I hope that Qiu Sheng will re-record it in the company's professional recording studio.

Qiu Sheng refused, on the grounds that "the rough feeling at the beginning is also part of our music".

Qiu Sheng is a very stubborn person, and Liu Wangyu is also strong. Their cooperation was very unpleasant at the beginning, and Huang Anwei even had to mediate several times before finally shaking hands.Liu Wangyu took a step back, no longer intervening in their works, and only focused on helping Yinshan make the itinerary.

The album is scheduled to be released on the first anniversary of its establishment. Donghe entered autumn and then winter, and the temperature was too stable, which was very different from the previous year.

This year is a warm winter, and the weather is still high and breezy after the beginning of winter. The westerly wind did not show its power immediately, the sun was shining brightly, and the sea water receded a little, revealing the shells and gravel left over from summer on the beach. The whole Donghe City was shrouded in a lazy atmosphere.

Qiu Sheng is not like a mild climate, his mood is becoming more and more unstable, and it can even be said that sometimes he is inexplicably irritable.

Anxiety effects, but not all.

After signing with the company, although Huang Anwei gave them great freedom on the surface, in order to complete the task and make money, the band had to conduct high-intensity performances and rehearsals.Most of the audience only watched one show, but the band had to maintain basically the same performance quality for each show. After too many times, the mechanical voice was tired, and Qiu Sheng was even more tense.

He doesn't want any imperfection in himself or the band, and he can't tolerate strange mistakes, so rehearsals always start with low pressure and end with tension on the verge of collapse.

Lu Yining complained that he was too autocratic at first, and made a fuss when he mentioned it, but later he didn't bother to talk about it.

He was caught by Qiu Sheng once playing drums for another band, and the two of them almost had a quarrel, Lu Yining threw away the drumsticks and said bluntly, "Because I'm not happy with you", while Qiu Sheng pointed at the door and told him to get out— ——In the end, Wen Youxia and Gu Qi persuaded one to end, otherwise their band would have to disband on the spot because of the conflict between the lead singer and the drummer.But since then, Lu Yining and Qiu Sheng have completely formed a relationship, and the rehearsal and communication can be avoided, and they will leave after get off work.

Gu Qi was also scolded. Although he was angry, he didn't take it to heart.Knowing that sometimes Qiu Sheng's emotions are not under control, and he has always regarded himself as a "brother" when he was older, so Gu Qi didn't have the same knowledge as him. Nagging a few words without itching.

Before Qiu Sheng came to apologize, Wen Youxia often went to Gu Qi to apologize for him first: "He is not in good health, and maybe he didn't mean it. I'm sorry, I'll tell him to pay more attention in the future."

Gu Qi didn't care: "It doesn't matter if you scold me, as long as you don't scold the music fans."

Maybe Gu Qi was born with a crow's mouth. He concluded in the future that all the outrageous remarks he made in jokes would suddenly come true in an incomprehensible way.

Yinshan was formed in November, and the first album was also released in November.

The first album is called "Silver Valley", and the cover is designed by Gu Qi. It contains a total of 8 songs, except for two songs written by Wen Youxia, all of which are composed by Qiu Sheng from lyrics to music arrangement to mixing.After only one year, he turned himself into a so-called all-rounder who can do everything, devoting all his time and energy to prevent any "outsiders" from intervening in the creation of the band.

Taiguo arranged a small-scale tour for them. After Donghe's premiere started smoothly, it was a long journey south.

Luyang is a newly added city for this tour. It is debatable whether music fans in other places can accept Yinshan's music style after leaving Donghe's home stadium.

Bands have their circles, and so do their fans. Style, atmosphere, and even geography can all be used as dividing criteria.If according to Huang Anwei's beautiful blueprint, Yinshan's music is light and dreamy, in line with the characteristics of fashion and good-sounding, then they should not only be popular in the small area of ​​Donghe, but also find an audience quickly in any place.

Touring is a way for the band to expand their popularity, and it is also Huang Anwei's test for them.

Luyang is [-] kilometers away from the East River and is an inland city near the river.Winter is harsher here than at the seaside. In November, the evergreen banyan trees are covered with a misty black color, and the streets are lead gray.

Their first performance at Luyang did not go well.

Fans who prefer traditional rock and disco styles are not very interested in their style. It is euphemistic to say that they learn the style of a certain Dongyang band. During the signing, someone seriously asked them "is it a rock band?" Qiu Sheng even received Comments such as "Singing softly, did you not eat?"Except for the slightly restless "Enthusiasm", most of the other songs in the livehouse are quiet and peaceful, and they fit well anywhere, except that they don't look like they are watching a performance.

The first performance was not good, and Qiu Sheng fell into self-doubt. When drinking and eating that night, he frowned and said: "I must make a special standard 'rock' song."

"What do you mean by 'standard'? Is it the standard big scene of peachy news where everyone gets angry together and then all the guitar and bass are turned down?" Gu Qi finished speaking cheerfully and whistled for a while.

Qiu Sheng stared at him unmoved.

Gu Qi: "...what?"

Qiu Sheng's eyes straightened: "Whose song was that part just now, you wrote it?"

"I'll just hum..."

"record."

Gu Qi said "ah", he scratched his hair, remembering what he hummed just now - dare not say that he forgot, for fear that Qiu Sheng would compete with him on the spot - across the small table, someone helped him with the same rhythm and the same melody. He hummed a second time.

Wen Youxia's whistle was a bit louder than Gu Qi's, and he was really good at notation, Gu Qi couldn't tell if it was right or not, but it was very pleasing to the ear.It was pleasant to hear, Wen Youxia made up a few sentences based on his impromptu melody, and the drummer who had a tacit understanding with him used two chopsticks and a bowl to beat the rhythm, and naturally kept up with it.

After the last note fell after eight bars, Qiu Sheng slapped the table: "Brother Qi!"

Gu Qi almost didn't dare to respond.

"You write it!" Qiu Sheng said, "Just this paragraph, keep that feeling."

Gu Qi has never written a song. Although he is the lead guitar of the band, he has never had a bright moment. Hearing this, the first reaction is to throw the blame: "Or Wen Xia..."

Wen Youxia held her chin: "It's not me who started it."

"Brother Qi, come on, what's so difficult about writing a song, you can't keep letting someone take the limelight!" Lu Yining didn't think it was a big deal when he watched the excitement, not only encouraged him, but also worked hard to increase it, "You write the song, I will arrange it." Try drum arrangement, Wen Xia, let's come together."

"Yes." Qiu Sheng rarely held the power of life and death, and said in agreement, "You can write whatever you want. If you really can't write, leave it to Wenxia. He is good at it."

Gu Qi seems to have been entrusted with a heavy responsibility out of nowhere, he is inexplicably stressed, and he is almost bald with worry.

But Wen Youxia, who usually cherishes words like gold the most, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder: "After finishing writing, I'll help you to tell Quanjiao that you wrote this song for her—brother, bid farewell to being single in one fell swoop. "

Lu Yining laughed out loud, while Gu Qi glared at Wen Youxia.

The night of inspiration can be regarded as a rare relaxing moment for them in the next few months. The song was written very slowly, and the arrangement and lyrics took a lot of effort.It finally took shape on the night of returning to Donghe. Several people were exhausted from the tour and had no time to record. In the end, they only sang once during a certain performance in Donghe to record its birth.

But I didn't expect it to be the only live version, and I didn't expect that this song, which was born at an unknown barbecue stall in Luyang Night Market, would become Yinshan's masterpiece - "Respect for Freedom".

Five days later, they rented a rehearsal room in Luyang to prepare for the second performance, in order to have a better effect.

Still unsatisfactory, the venue was empty by a third before the last song was sung.The prepared encore song might not be able to be sung, Qiu Sheng hugged the guitar a little bit lost, at a loss.

In the front row, a young man in a baseball cap wearing a T-shirt of a local band from Luyang had a moderate voice, just enough for Qiu Sheng to hear.

"What the hell are you singing... You really dare to go on stage if you know how to play the guitar..." He turned his head and said to his girlfriend next to him with a sense of confidence, "This band has no technical content at all."

Every word came to the ears coherently, and Qiu's voice rushed to the sky like the blood in his whole body.He loosened his grip on the guitar, then held it tightly again, and threw the guitar aside, regardless of whether it was broken with a loud bang, and was about to jump off the stage to argue with the young man—

In the empty sound that was about to die down, a muffled bass suddenly let go.

Then there was a bass solo show without any hesitation. The climax of the song just finished was temporarily changed into a coquettish and cool slap. The bass line went higher, but there was no feeling of dying at all.The drums come in on the second eight beats, the tempo doubles, and the bass always manages the melody with ease.

In less than 3 minutes, at the end, Qiu Sheng could clearly see that the young man who pointed out Jiangshan just now was speechless.

He couldn't speak out against this impromptu, "no technical content."

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