It was also that year that the traffic band beat Mayday for the best band with "Chrysanthemum Serenade", and the band was dissolved at the peak of its development the following year. After the dissolution of the band, the soul figures Lin, Lin and Lin reorganized the team and created excellent works.
The whole album "Chrysanthemum Night March" is composed of ten songs (songs). Taking time as a clue, it outlines the half life of Acheng, a young man in Hakka rural areas. It can be said that it is a very typical literary work depicting personal entanglements with the times. Since it is a Hakka story, it is inevitable to use traditional music in form. For it, Hakka music can't even be characterized, because it is a natural expression of content. You can classify it, say it is world music, and say that its biggest feature is that it is different. But it's as boring as separating earth eggs from eggs.
The band calls itself a "worker's microphone", not a "Hakka microphone". For foreigners, music with local characteristics is of course very attractive. But what is even more fascinating is the essential story and picture sense of Ju Nocturne as a folk song, as well as its thinking as a literary work.
Fengshen 125
The first time I came into contact with this album was a colleague from Taiwan Province Province. She mentioned Fengshen 125, the second song in the album.
The protagonist "Cheng" appeared on the road to escape. Suona and guitar are accompanied by the cry of "Acheng", preferring cowardice, giving up self-esteem and breaking with the city behind them. Although the lyrics mentioned the return of the native many times, it is hard to say that this is a song about the return of the native. Combined with the county road 184 (the first poem) at the beginning of the album, in Acheng's panic and Fengshen 125' s gallop, the country and the city are separated.
This also confirms the integrity of this song "Chrysanthemum Nocturne" in form and content from another angle. To enjoy it completely, you have to listen to the first song to the last. However, when I first came into contact with pop music, no one else had ever formed the concept of a real album. Listen to a song. If it doesn't sound good, change it. You will never feel that an album is like a movie. You should concentrate on watching it, and after all the slots and tears are swallowed, you will begin to recollect how the whole movie makes you feel. You can leave early, but you won't get a refund.
Chrysanthemum night March
Back to this album, as the theme song of the album of the same name, "Chrysanthemum Night March" carries the climax of the whole story. Although Lin wrote a tribute to Mo Yan on the title page of the album, there is really no need to add magical realism or something like that to this song. Working people never lack imagination. Woodcutter Zhong Ziqi can also feel the mountains and rivers from the sound of the piano. Why can't "Cheng" give orders to the chrysanthemums (real chrysanthemums) he faces every day?
What is worth pondering is the arrangement of "marching". Helplessness and irony have long been lurking at the beginning and end of the song. The more powerful the commander of "Acheng" is, the more he highlights his innocence and absurdity.
About the broadcast at the end of the song, the waist band sang like this:
My hometown is a long time away from home.
The ninth album Long Away from Home tells the story of a foreign bride in the first person. Because the real foreign bride is the lead singer, the sad and slightly dull voice turns the positive words in the second half of the song into empty slogans, and the phrase "My hometown is after a long time away from home" is at a loss in such an ambiguous attitude.
Back to Fengshen 125, this group of foreign brides came to Taiwan Province Province to make a living. Isn't it "Acheng" before they fled?
His hometown, my hometown.
Homesickness is just a worry about missing. People's alienation never happens only in reinforced concrete cities, and times never leave a paradise gently. Even if you have never left the land under your feet, your hometown has been a foreign land for a long time.