I have been diving in Beipu for two years, and I have accumulated a lot of works. Finally, I released my second CD, 800 meters from Taiwan Province Province. These fifteen works are mainly Hakka dialects with sea and land accents, and they are also very popular among villagers.
After moving from Beipu to Emei, he found that when children sang his songs, the innocent voice was more touching, just like nature. So in February, 2000, 65,438, Brother Tao and 9 students from Emei Elementary School in Hsinchu County cooperated to complete the new album "Class is over", which included 10 songs. The first CD published Qinghe and Lullaby in the Sky, and the second CD published Looking at Tianhe. So up to now, Brother Tao, Atao and the children have finished class together, which is also called class is over.
Performer: Chen
Number of records: 1
ISRC (China): CNE0 10444300
Issue date: 2000- 12
Version function: photo album
Publisher: Chunshui
Media: CD
Introduction:
1998 1 1 month, Chunshui Studio moved from Beipu to Emei to prepare a series of publishing work. In the quiet rural life, the most noisy, except for a few naive dogs, are the children of several families nearby, which will always surprise us and make us happy.
This group of children, the oldest at that time was ten years old and the youngest was three years old. There were about six or seven children in all. On Saturday or Sunday, they like to run to the front of our Sanhe Hospital and shout together: "Chen, Yong, Tao, come out, play-Chen, Yong, Tao, come out, play-"
Then, you will hear them shouting, "Chen, Yong, Tao-sing, sing, give, me, my friends, listen-". There was no response in the concierge, and they immediately changed their tune, "Chen, Yong, Dao Ming, friend, sing, sing, give." Tao and I usually snicker happily at the door ... 19981month, Chunshui Studio moved from Beipu to Emei to prepare for a series of publishing work. In the quiet rural life on weekdays, except for a few naive dogs, the noisiest ones are the children of several families nearby, which always surprises and delights us.
This group of children, the oldest at that time was ten years old and the youngest was three years old. There were about six or seven children in all. On Saturday or Sunday, they like to run to the front of our Sanhe Hospital and shout together: "Chen, Yong, Tao, come out, play-Chen, Yong, Tao, come out, play-"
Then, you will hear them shouting, "Chen, Yong, Tao-sing, sing, give, me, my friends, listen-". There was no response in the concierge, and they immediately changed their tune, "Chen, Yong, Dao Ming, friend, sing, sing, give."
Finally, before they get here, they will quietly count the passwords, say "one, two, three", and then shout "Chen, we don't love you" loudly and quickly, so they dispersed in a hubbub.
These children like to come to the studio to play. Twins, Tingting and Ru Ru, are both under ten years old this year. If Ru Ru seems more rational, he will come to the studio one day to help pack the CD, install the external label and shrink the mold. He worked hard, didn't rest and didn't confuse things. I asked him if he usually helps at home. It turns out that he often helps to make betel nuts, so his craft is very good. I gave her a Atao song as a reward that day. I hope they can sing another song next time. Unexpectedly, one day his three-year-old brother walked 300 meters barefoot with a runny nose and asked me for another one.
My sister Tingting is completely different from my sister. Tingting always has a happy and innocent smile on her face. One night, she came to play at home and touched the stone (the dog on the cover of the last album). Then she smiled at the stone carefully and intently, and said, "Stone, I'm going back to take a shower and wash my fragrance. I will marry you in the future, so don't go away. " We laughed on the spot and didn't know what to do.
One day, Tingting came to play alone, looked up and smiled and asked Atao, "Do you know what class I like best, Chen?" Atao made a random guess, and she said happily, "You can't guess, my favorite class is the next class!"
We think this child is too wise, so when the recording is over and we want to name the album, we think of Tingting, a happy child, and this happy quote.
He has been engaged in music since he moved to Beipu. Besides friends and fans, some children want to make friends most. For example, he and Gu Jingjing, a child who always "dances" in Miao Ping's songs, are sworn brothers. Once, Gu Jingji made a mistake, and his father waved his fist to punish him. He actually raised his hand to stop his father and said, "Wait a minute, I'm sworn to Tao Ge." His father couldn't help laughing on the spot.
In the past two or three years, Atao has written many songs about children, but he has never had a chance to publish and promote them formally. Although he often said that interested teachers could use it, he lost the opportunity to promote it because of the lack of formal production and publication. Living in Hakka village, I see that children are exposed to mainstream commercial music or some nonsense goods every day, but there is very little Hakka music available to children now, so we actively want to promote this work as a gift to children.
Every song in it has a detailed background description, and the "origin" of these singing children should start from 19981February.
Two years ago in winter (19981February), Emei Primary School celebrated its centenary. Mr Jiang Xinqi, the headmaster, came to the studio and invited Atao to perform for the school. At that time, I suggested that Atao's Hakka graduation song "I remember it" could be taught to children and performed during the school celebration to commemorate this special day. I believe many old alumni will be very moved when they hear it, because this is a Hakka graduation song written by many people.
Enthusiastic headmaster took Atao's singing cassette and accompanied by guitar, and taught children above grade three to learn to sing from school. On the anniversary day, I took photos under the stage, and I was very moved to hear the children singing this song skillfully. Later, I heard from the betel nut takeaway in the school fence that even they almost learned to sing, because the school broadcasts it every day, and it is still very clear through the fence.
A few months later, Atao was invited to perform at the Hakka Culture Festival of Taipei City Government. I recommended Emei Elementary School to perform together and participate in the release of commemorative CDs, so I started to get in touch with these children.
I was busy with the publication and performance of Song of Atao for some time. This winter and summer vacation, we asked the headmaster to contact the parents, and after obtaining the consent, we started a summer music class to practice singing in our newly-built Sanheyuan studio. The enthusiastic headmaster sends the children to the studio every day. Aside from the pressure of the school system, the children became friends with us under the guidance of Taoju.
There are no desks and chairs in our music classroom, only a big wooden bed board and many strange musical instruments that children have never seen before. Like colored Latin drums, fruit-shaped bells, fingerboards made of gourds and nails, and hourglasses made of cacti. Besides having classes on the bed board, we sometimes have classes in the kitchen or cornfield. In short, it is a free form. Unless children are too careless, they are usually not easily punished for sitting or standing.
Atao is good with children. It should be said that he is good at coaxing children. They all call him Brother Atao. Before learning to sing the song "Childhood", he took the children to play origami planes. I didn't expect this generation of children to fold. After the discount, we'll see who can fly high and have fun. When singing "Hsinchu Style", take them to the Neiwan Line to take a small train and take them boating in a friend's pond. Sometimes when I'm not energetic, I just cut some cardboard to draw. Finally, after singing and recording, we gave each child a guitar as a souvenir. I hope they can sing these songs on the guitar one day, or write their own songs.
These songs and this album were not originally designed as bel canto performances for Vienna children. The educational resources in rural areas are insufficient. Children have no chance to get in touch with formal music education, learn vocal music practice and learn staff. Our resources also lack such teaching conditions. Therefore, adhering to the original motivation of these songs, we hope that children can learn to sing these songs under natural conditions, not forced or trained, but fun and interesting.
Therefore, in the absence of music teaching, we use tapes and live singing to explain, so that children are familiar with these songs and convey them with their most primitive and natural voice expressions. Atao and I can't guide them in the normal university way, but we believe that children's performance will be the most natural and naive in this way of life and study. Therefore, in this album, it is easy to hear that children are not accurate in pitch, or have Tik Tok when singing, or are untidy. Try to avoid all kinds of shortcomings under the existing environmental conditions. When we hear the final remix, we can only say that these shortcomings need to be improved, but the children's performance has been flawed.
Unfortunately, some tracks were not selected this time. For example, I always wanted my children to perform, because it was a wonderful song for children, but I had to give up temporarily because there was no suitable singer. I hope interested teachers or parents can push their children to learn to sing this song.
There is also a serious problem in the production process, that is, the child's mother tongue ability is getting weaker and weaker. Although all the children who sing this time can speak Hakka, their pronunciation is still assimilated by Mandarin in many places, which makes them spend a lot of time correcting their pronunciation when teaching singing. This problem should be faced squarely.
To sum up, under very limited conditions, we finished this work, thanks to President Jiang and the school teachers for their strong support to this project, thanks to parents for letting their children spend a different summer vacation with us, thanks to the arranger for writing such beautiful music for us, thanks to the recording engineer Cai Xufeng, who added a lot to this album, and thanks to the tolerance of children's lawless play in the recording studio. Special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Huang Yanxing of Emei for generously providing a spacious Japanese-style building as a space for music classroom to practice singing. Thanks to linguist Wu Zhongjie for revising the text for us, and thanks to Beipu sunshine kindergarten for providing artistic pictures.
Part of the proceeds from this album will be returned to the school to promote Hakka music.
Finally, I want to give my children a picked-up sentence: "If you don't sing when you are happy, you will be half happy", and another sentence is "If you sing when you are unhappy, you will be half unhappy".
I hope what we give our children will always be as relaxed, comfortable and beautiful as "class is over".
Xian xian he shui
Little people don't like fighting with adults (children don't fight, adults don't fight)
Fighting is the first stupidity. It doesn't mean that if you hit someone, you will be hit by someone else (fighting is the stupidest thing, either hitting someone or being beaten)
Grandpa takes you to Yuantan to catch big carp (Grandpa takes you to Yuantan to catch big carp)
Fine people love to learn to swim, and when they grow up, they are not afraid of water (children should learn to swim, but when they grow up, they are not afraid of water)
My uncle took the lead in learning to dive in Danshui River (clear river, my uncle took the lead in learning to dive).
Hairy crabs in Xiagong, Lao Jiang, Liu Sha stick to the shuttle (there are many loaches, shrimps and crabs in the water, which keep shuttling)
If you love swimming, you will swim first. If you can swim, you won't be afraid of water.
Grandpa taught you to swim in Danshui River (clear river, grandpa taught you to dive).
A stone jar was thrown into the pool to grab the mound (he threw a stone into the deep pool to see who could find it first).
The fishing handle is straight and can't catch food, and the fishing handle is curved and can't catch grouper (the straight fishing rod can't catch anything, and the curved fishing rod catches grouper).
Aber fishes at the pond head and Dad fishes at the pond tail (Aber fishes at the pond head and Dad fishes at the pond tail).
If you don't catch crucian carp, you will catch Brother Bai in the shallows (if you don't catch crucian carp, you will go to the shallows to catch Brother Xi with fake bait).
Cut shredded ginger under grandma Qinghe's stove (Qinghe, grandma has cut shredded ginger in the kitchen)
Grandpa said that he was lucky enough to catch the big bass eel (grandpa said beside him that he almost caught the big bass eel)
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This song was written in 1996.
This is a song of profound significance to Tao. It was also the second song he wrote when he picked up the guitar. This song is dedicated to my grandfather and the Tamsui River era that is gone forever.
Grandparents and brothers were rare farmers who were good at fishing and hunting in their hometown of Kansai in their early years. They can hold their breath for a long time, dive deeply, and easily catch big carp and big bass eel with their bare hands, which can be said to be legendary fishermen of that year. It was the master in the stream who taught the brothers to swim and fish.
In the face of these naughty grandchildren, Grandpa often said with a slight reprimand that "villains are not good at fighting", and Atao brothers would also talk back and say that "adults are not good at fighting". My grandfather also likes to say that "if you hit the first fool, you will be hit by others", so the first lyric of this song is almost my grandfather's famous saying.
Grandpa often talks about some experiences of getting along with nature when he was young in his later years. In order to comfort him when he was ill in bed, after writing the first song "Things on the Head", Tao first thought of re-creation, which was the memory of this stream with his grandfather. The night I finished singing this song, Atao sang and cried.
Grandpa listened to Tao's song and showed a rare smile, but soon left everyone. The wise words he left behind and the life situation he once created taught us to miss such an old man and such an old environment.
Audio track:
0 1. Xianxian River
02. Hsinchu style
03. Yaopo
04. Look at Tianhe
05. Tree
Step 06 add honey
07. Why kill
childhood
09. Do you remember?
10. introduction to lullaby waterway album:
Chen's life of playing and singing. Fan Zongpei's Aesthetic Interpretation
"Waterway is a way for us to laugh in our dreams. Waterway is like a dream, but it is never illusory. This is not a new road, but it is a long way to return to nature and find the root of happiness. " ~ atao
● Beauty, grandeur and depth are not enough to describe Amoy's music; Soothing and healing is another magical energy of Atao's songs. The participation of the arranger Fan Zongpei adds beauty and depth to this work.
● Every song is a whisper of the soul. For hundreds of years, Tian Wen, Waterway, Singing with the Wind, Tang ㄅㄅㄅ, the mysterious old well without words, Mei Nong's Under the Flowers, and Gamalan's aria Mountain Bone of Pingpu nationality have formed excellent poems beyond imagination.
● The whole album is mainly pronounced with Hakka sea-land accent, and some of them use Sixian accent. Sincere and touching content and songs cross the boundaries of race and language, like a free breeze, gently blowing all kinds of things on this island and the inner nature that we have no time to take care of.
Waterway is a slow and gentle road, and waterway is a road to redemption. Looking back at the past and around, I always see the sky that pursues speed and the network of endless desires and violence.
Maybe it's because my childhood home was a hydrophilic environment, and the river at home and the ditch at home can satisfy my children. When I'm a little older, I'll walk across the field 100 meters and connect with a big river full of life-Fengshan River.
No matter how hot and dry the weather is, adults and children can enjoy the cool there. They have never seen a man who lost his temper and fought to the death in the water. If we leave that environment, people will become dry and wars will emerge one after another. Man is really too far away from nature.
Perhaps, in the process of pursuing development or civilization, the tap usurped the mother named river, and the mother named nature was replaced by mineral water and refrigerator. So we will care whether we spend money on the best quality mineral water or reverse osmosis filtered water. We covet convenience, we are domesticated, and unconsciously ignore the river, our milk source and our mother.
Waterway is a road that makes us laugh in our dreams. Waterway is like a dream, but it is never illusory.
I seem to be a boy again. Beautiful environment and clear water make my mind no longer turbid. There is peace between people, only laughter, no fighting. Even if you accidentally get hurt in the water, it is still a little sweet to recall, because physical pain is usually short-lived, and mental pain is always difficult to find.
But I have always believed that water has a wonderful and indescribable healing effect, just like floating to Beipu after many years, soaking in clear water with fish and shrimp, rowing on the beach once in a while, and looking at the world where everything needs water to nourish at the most natural and relaxing speed, my turbid heart becomes clear and quiet ..... And when my eyes shine, little Emei suddenly becomes rich.
Waterway is a broad and long road to return to nature, to return to nature and to find the source of happiness. Waterway is not a new road. The waterway has been waiting for us, but we have forgotten it. ~ atao
Album tracks:
0 1. Tian Wen
02. Channel
03. downwind song
04. sugar XX
05. Old well
06. Under the flower tree
07. Moonlight is round in a season.
08. The next book is full of enthusiasm
09. Mountain Bonus
10. White crane
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