POP CHINA FEAST - CUI JIAN – THE VOICE OF MODERN CHINA 

26 JULY
AUDITORIUM
21:30
Music

POP CHINA FEAST

CUI JIAN – THE VOICE OF MODERN CHINA

Cui Jian (singer, guitar, trompet), Liu Yuan (sax, flute), Liu Yue (bass), Eddie Randriamampionona (guitar), Wu Yongheng (percussion), Zhang Yongguang (percussion), Xia Jia (keyboard)

Cui Jian symbolises the growing openness and modernisation of Chinese society. At the beginning of the 1980s, while playing trumpet with the Beijing Philharmonic Orchestra, he got interested in rock through cassettes brought into the country by foreign tourists and students. Inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel, he learned to play guitar and sing and, in 1984, formed one of the first ever Chinese pop bands.
In that year, he recorded his debut album, Langzigui, featuring innovative experiences engaging the Chinese musical universe with rock, rap and traditional Chinese music and raising sensitive subjects such as individualism and sexuality. In 1986, in a concert commemorating the Year of Peace, he took to the stage in peasant dress to sing Nothing To My Name, which was to become a progressive anthem for the Chinese youth towards the end of the decade. In 1990, he released New Long March, which was to become the best selling album in the history of China.
Cui Jian continued to play and tour both China and the world throughout the 1990s becoming the only modern Chinese musical project with a genuinely global impact. In 2002, he staged a major rock festival up in the mountains of Yunnan labelled the «Woodstock of China» by the international press. In 2003, he opened the Rolling Stones concerts in Beijing and, in 2005, played a major concert in Beijing stadium representing the end of a ban on his performing in the Chinese capital.

PROGRAM

PRICE: € 15.00 (€ 24,00 with the 25 July concert)
M/ 12
APPROX. LENGTH: 75 minutes, no intermission
Co-Production: Fundação Oriente/Sons em Trânsito