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The name seems to be a construction company,

In fact, it is an electronic band from Brooklyn, New York.

The band was established in 2005, so it has been 14 years now .

Band members Dave Liang and Sun Yunfan,

One is a Chinese American who grew up in the United States,

graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics,

One is a girl from Shenzhen who later came to the United States to study visual arts.

Both of them worked as office workers after graduation.

Because they liked music and art, they both resigned naked.

Create together and live together.

They combined their own life experiences,

integrated Chinese folk music,

hip-hop, jazz and electronic music into their music, < /p>

They have topped many electronic music charts in the world.

Their various creations for more than ten years have allowed them to accumulate many fans in China.

Recently they returned to Shanghai from New York to perform.

A film crew followed them to attend music festivals and travel around Shanghai.

Readme Dave Liang, Sun Yunfan editor Chen Xing

Dave: The name of our band is Shanghai Restoration Project, the Chinese name is Shanghai Restoration Project, it is an electronic A musician group, the current members are me and Yunfan. I founded the band in 2005, so it has been 14 years now and has released more than a dozen albums.

Yunfan started helping the band with visual projections for live performances, designing posters and album covers in 2011, and later gradually joined the band in music creation and arrangement. Starting from the "Life Elsewhere" album in 2022, the band's music has been created by us together.

We write songs together, release music, collaborate with other artists, and perform everywhere. From the beginning to the present, our music has always been integrated with many different elements: from classical to hip-hop, jazz, samba, Chinese folk music, electronics, atmosphere, etc., they are all part of our musical chemistry.

One person was born in China,

One person was born in the United States

Dave: I was born in Kansas, USA. Grew up in upstate New York.

Although my parents are both scientists, they both like to sing. My mother could play the guzheng and sing Peking Opera when she was young. My grandfather played the flute very well, so I would hear some Chinese music when I was young. folk music.

Outside of my family, I also studied classical piano and jazz piano since I was a child, and also played jazz trumpet. In high school, I also participated in a rock band and choir.

When I was in college, I studied applied mathematics and economics, but I still spent most of my time rehearsing in the choir and performing around the world every summer. After graduating in 2000, I went to work in a management company. It was very boring and I couldn't stand it after one year.

Later, I started working during the day and interned at a hip-hop record company in Harlem, New York, at night, learning beats from some black musicians.

After a few months, I quit my job and became a musician. After working in this industry for several more years, I didn't establish my own record company and band until 2005.

Yunfan: I was born in Fengxian County, Shaanxi Province, China, and grew up in Xi'an and Shenzhen. As a child, I learned piano, ballet and painting. But I still studied finance in college, worked for two or three years after graduation, and then returned to school to study oil painting.

My parents are both from the south. When I went to college, I was assigned to a remote mountainous area in the Qinling Mountains after graduation. Although there was a lack of supplies, I still tried every means to live a more prosperous life.

One year, in Xi'an, they didn't know where they got a recipe book for a state banquet with exquisite photos.

During the Chinese New Year, they actually cooked food for me and my brother according to the photos of the state banquet, and carved phoenixes and put them out. This left a deep impression on my mind.

Although Dave and I grew up in very different childhood environments, we are both lucky enough to have preserved some emotional touch during our growth. As long as you keep your antennae, you will be willing to do different things when you grow up.

Shanghai revitalization plan, what to revitalize?

Dave: The origin of the name "Shanghai Renaissance Plan" is related to my first visit to Shanghai in 1997.

At that time, I heard the jazz music of the 1930s in Shanghai at one of the Peace Hotels. I immediately felt that this kind of music resonated with the soul of people with multiple cultural backgrounds like me.

Later I learned from a music history book called "Yellow Music" that in Shanghai in the 1930s there was an African-American band leader named Buck Clayton. There is also a composer with pedigree named Chen Gexin. He studied music with a Jewish musician and composed many classic Shanghai old songs.

Musicians are also different people, and we all create music together regardless of national boundaries.

So when I formed my own band in 2005, I wanted to pay tribute to the Shanghai Jazz of the 1930s, which incorporated musical elements from various countries, and create music that reflected my own cross-cultural experience.

Dave quit his job to make music,

One of the albums was named after a Shanghai landmark

Dave: One of the albums "Shanghai Restoration" Project" (Shanghai Revitalization Plan) was recorded in the bathroom of my apartment. It uses a lot of Chinese folk music samples, but the main rhythm and style is actually hip-hop, with some jazz elements also incorporated.

Listen to the song "East Road"

So our earliest music fans in China are actually hip-hop fans. In the past two years, hip-hop music has been accepted by more young people in China. One of our albums was also "rediscovered" by some new fans through adaptations by some Chinese hip-hop artists, such as Jony J and Tizzy T.

An interlude from the second album,

Accepting a missing dream

Dave: "Story of a City" ( City Story) is dedicated to my grandparents. A lot of the music on the album is my imagination of what life was like when they were young in China in the 1930s and 1940s.

Listen to the song "Acknowledgements"

One of the songs is called "Acknowledgements". The word in English means thanks, recognition, and acceptance. It is for It was made for my grandparents who passed away unexpectedly when I was in high school. It was very sad.

When this song was spread to China in 2006, a fan changed its name to "The 1937th Missing Dream" and added " With a new album cover, the composer was also changed to Joe Hisaishi, allowing the song to circulate in China with a completely different look for many years.

Ten years later, we removed the version of the music we had signed with the wrong information. As a result, many people left us messages, saying that they recalled a lot of their own sad things and thanked the song for accompanying us. How many sleepless nights have I spent?" "The 1937th Missing Dream".

Use music to break labels

Dave: I am Chinese. In the United States, white people hold the mainstream voice and the majority, while ethnic minorities can only stay together and play a game called "identity".

The cultural environment in the United States likes to give everyone a label and put everyone in a box - ethnicity, cars, suburban houses, and churches are all boxes, and I want to break them Those boxes.

My third album "Zodiac" (Zodiac), released in 2009, was more electronic and experimental, incorporating more diverse musical elements and breaking more boxes.

Listen to the song "dark HORSE"

Among my early works, this one has a more personal style and is also my favorite. But its response in the market at that time was not good because it was difficult to label it as a simple product.

But being true to your own creations will pay off sooner or later. When Yunfan and I first met in 2011, she told me that "Zodiac" was her favorite among my works, which reminded her of the "Carnival of the Animals" suite by the French Impressionist composer Sang. At that time, I knew that we were in love with each other. people.

A few years later, the famous American conceptual artist Cindy Sherman chose the music from this album as the soundtrack for one of her video works.

Our director Liu Jian also selected two songs from this album, "dark HORSE" () and "laboRATory" (Lab Rat), from all our tracks in 2022 as the "Big World" 》soundtrack.

Dave (middle), Yunfan (right) singer Zhang Le

In 2011, I also met Zhang Le, a jazz singer from Shanghai. In 2022, we Released an album "The Classics", which is an electronic jazz arrangement of old Shanghai songs.

Listen to the song "Unavailable Love"

Another Shanghainese EP was released in 2022, but I didn't expect the two songs "Bailemen Swing" in it. Swing) and "Mungbean Mash" (Mungbean Mash) became particularly popular on Douyin last year, but we found that most people who liked these two songs just liked Shanghainese and were not interested in our band or other works.

Yunfan: My friends from Shanghai really like the song "Mungbean Mash", probably because it reminds many people of their childhood memories. The content of the lyrics is a tongue twister that everyone is familiar with, but if you analyze it carefully, it is actually quite imaginary.

For example, a child rides a rocking horse to his grandma's house. The grandma cooks fish for the baby, but it is not cooked. After eating, the fish is still jumping in the stomach, and suddenly it jumps to the bridge again? It's very strange. Like a child, the difference between reality and imagination is unclear.

Listen to the song "Mung Bean Porridge"

My grandma lives in Zhejiang. In 2008, I went back and took some photos, and then I used these materials to make a The MV also adds some animations, using classic snacks and toys from the 1980s such as White Rabbit toffee, hawthorn cakes, red and white striped roly-poly dolls, toy pianos, wind-up chickens, orange erasers, and jigsaw puzzles to summon everyone. childhood memories.

Album "Life Elsewhere"

In 2022, Dave and Zhang Le asked me to write some new songs together when they were preparing for a tour. At that time, Zhang Le She was also preparing to leave New York and move to Stockholm, so we developed these new songs into a Chinese album "Life Elsewhere" before she left. This is also my first attempt at music composition and arrangement.

Listen to the song "Illusion of Me"

We wrote an album for artificial intelligence

Yunfan: Me in 2022 and Dave made a return to electronic album "R.U.R.". The theme of the album is to imagine a world where artificial intelligence replaces humans. How will they view the success or failure of human civilization?

The title of the album is the 1920 Czech science fiction drama "R.U.R.", the word "Robot" comes from this drama. Every song in it is a topic that we usually care about.

Listen to the song "Alpha Go"

For example, the song "Alpha Go" was inspired by the defeat of Ke Jie by the Go artificial intelligence developed by Google in 2022 News for inspiration. I played Go when I was a child and admired this skill. There were so many ancient chess records to learn and how to open the game. At that time, I felt that my intelligence was not worthy of learning this sport.

And now, the top human chess players are no longer worthy of playing chess with AI. The rapid development of capital-driven technology will not only bring about the demise of some cultural significance, but also create many moral dilemmas. Many people's careers will also be replaced by robots. So what about the lives of these people?

Album "R.U.R."

This album received a very good response, and the American Go Association even wrote to us, requesting that we release the MV for this song. Included in their newsletter and introduced to their members. The album cover has also been selected into the annual exhibitions and yearbooks of the American Illustration Society and the British Illustration Society.

Listen to the song "Dubalonia Radio International"

In 2022 we released two singles, "Dubalonia Radio International" and "Public Poet" ("The Public Poet").

Some fans say that our music is innocent and a little sad, and I think it makes sense.

The song "Dubalonia Radio International" has a beautiful melody but is also a bit sad. It reminds me of everyone's attitude towards the future and technology. The sound at the beginning and end is the sound of our cat drinking water. There is a section in the middle where I imitate the accent of an announcer from the 1980s, and everyone imagines a different era, or a different future, where technology is warm, not scary.

Listen to the song "Public Poet"

The song "Public Poet" was inspired by the documentary "California Typewriter".

Dave wrote a melody for me to listen to, and I thought it was very childlike. In fact, everyone has had that kind of mentality and feeling, but then it disappeared. I wrote the melody in the B section to be a morale-boosting and energetic melody. I hope everyone can have that childlike innocence.

Partnership

Dave and Yunfan: We are partners in creation and life. When not traveling we live in Brooklyn, New York.

In addition to making music together, Dave usually handles management matters such as finance, royalties, and music festivals, while Yunfan is responsible for visual work, including photography, album covers, posters, MVs, and performance projections.

We have a cat named "Pig Black" and many plants. I like to watch independent and various exhibitions, and also like to travel.

We both love cooking. Dave makes breakfast and I make dinner. Dave likes to cook it Mediterranean style, oven baked. The food I cook is probably a fusion of Chinese and Southeast Asian cuisine. We like to taste all kinds of food. When we returned to Shenzhen, we tried all the Cantonese teahouses.

We usually like to walk outside and record strange samples. We all know the sounds of birds, insects, fans, steam engines, exhaust fans, and empty cans in alleys. record.

A few years ago we were in a forest park in Malaysia. When male tree lizards wanted to attract females, they would make a special noise. We recorded it and later wrote a song for them. .

Listen to the song "Library Breakin?"

Another time when I was walking in the Tate Museum in London, Yunfan's legs were sore from walking, so he used a rolled-up bag while walking. The poster tube was hitting my legs, and I happened to go to a corner and the echo was really nice, so we recorded this sound and used it in the song "Library Breakin?".

Our music likes to put many different elements in it, just like the spices in food. This may be regarded as a kind of "extremely many" - we like to go Exploring different colors, textures, light and dark, layers and balances, we prefer to perceive the richer and more nuanced the better, rather than simplifying them.

When we write songs, it is very much like a gift-giving process. You make a gift from your heart and give it to a friend, lover, or family member. My future plans are nothing special. I will continue to make music, continue to write soundtracks, and continue to raise cats.

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