The second episode (Episode II) of “ The Sensation Quintet” -Blind
“We can never live without our lives, but we can never see ideals and freedom face to face.”-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Blind" is a total artwork(Gesamtkunstwerk) that combines film, texts, body/dance, installations and performances creation with music as the core. As the starting point of the total artwork, the music album "Blind" has also conducted a new experiment in the sense of hearing. It attempts to challenge the traditional stereo aural inertia and rigid post-rock orchestration model: Innovative Chinese and Western music orchestration, headset 360° surround sound technology, percussion Sextet...all these have created a fresh and interesting auditory space for this album,and reappear the "blindness" from the hearing.
From the beginning of the Perplexed (Episode I) of the examination and reflection, the " The Sensation Quintet " is destined to tell an aberration story in the eyes of the normal world. We consider all the strange and irregular actions and affairs as aberration. Often, by ignoring, avoiding, and even cursing the things that stand opposite to what is normal, we are able to forget death and live in peace Alive.
“Blind” is an orgy of aberration on the loss of normality, a search and query in the depths of the cage of normality and established. In the eager of derangement of the Perplexed, beyond the created grand scene, and then close your eyes to put down the small approachable, into the blindness, wandering in the pale maze, in the direct sunlight, and encounter the dark unexpectedly...
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Composition/Arrangement: TATION
Record Producer: Louis Liu(Taiwan)
Sound Engineer: WANG Dazhi,Xianyi KIM (Korean),Janssen
Audio Mixer/Master: Louis Liu(Taiwan)
Guitar: ZHANG Jianfeng ,MA Xiaowei
Bass: ZHANG Li (Tibetan)
Jazz Drum :HUA Shenghai (Tibetan)
Percussion Instruments:HAN Yu
Piano/Synthesizer: PENG Yixin
Chinese Drum: HAN Yu, LI Weijiang, WU Haoye
Sound Engineer Assistant: CHEN Yang, SUN Ruichen,LIU Tao, DU Hao
Recording Studio: YEFAN Culture
Master Tape Studio: Cubic Scene Sound Studio(Shanghai)
Equipment Support: Yue sound audio-visual
Cover Artwork: GaDe (Tibetan) ,Ice Buddha
Cover Artwok Photograph: Jason Sangster (USA)
Art Design: Naren Gaowa (Mongolian)
Text: ZHANG Jianfeng
English Translation: YAN Xinggong
Photograph: YANG Xiaohuo
Thanks: CHAO Yujun, QU Wenxuan, MA Guiying, DONG Rong, QI Yonghong, DENG Jiani , LIU Junling
TATION, an Post/Instrumental Rock band from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, specializes in blending Chinese folk music elements with rock, electronics and experimental music.
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