大鬼众 Ghostmass - 大抱散 Improvisation for Dusty Ballz TAPE
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▼CCD07/WV105: 大鬼众 Ghostmass - 大抱散 Improvisation for Dusty Ballz
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Dusty Ballz (UK) and WV Sorcerer Productions (FR) join forces to present two new releases by Beijing-based noise/drone/doom metal group, Ghostmass.
In Chinese, “big ghost” is a phrase sometimes used to convey a sense of utter out-of-placeness. If you see a big ghost, you find someone who walks the corporeal world in their own preposterous ways. A big ghost is not a ghost, it does not terrorise, but neither does it belong. It occurred to Li Weisi that this speaks to the very essence of outside music making. One of these days, he started saying “I saw a big ghost playing last night” after going to a very good gig.
Ghostmass, then, are a collective of such big ghosts doing music together. Started in 2021 as an improvisation unit based in Beijing, the project gathers kindred souls who share the vision for an open musical space where ghosts feel at home. To this day, the lineup has evolved into some kind of a supergroup of the capital’s music underground: Li Weisi and Li Qing are known more widely as the retro-manic electro-acoustic duo Soviet Pop, and as two thirds of the cult alt-rock act Carsick Cars; Yan Jun has been a veteran experimenter of sounds, words, and ideas for decades across various scenes; the most recent addition to the group was Yang KuKu (YKK), a professional aquascaper who plays music in a band for the first time.
While the project grows from a joint passion for drone, doom, and extreme metal, each ghost attends its own duties in building and rebuilding the collective sound of Ghostmass, which stumbles across a trackless delta of harsh noise and free improvisation. In 2023, Ghostmass recorded an improvised session for Dusty Ballz on a hot summer day. The label was told that they would do something jazz. The two tracks on Side B are titled to pay homage to the legacy of late Coltrane. Side A presents an array of ghostly references from an everyday Chinese context: a martial arts fiction masterwork of the Taiwanese “ghost school”, an ancient Taoist master heralding from the ghost valley, a French DIY-music wizard who wanders in Beijing hutongs calling himself “ghost uncle”, and the famous ghost caverns in the Wuyi Mountains where smoky dark oolong tea grows – these references have warrantably turned into ghosts themselves, paling under translation.
In a time when being human gives way to humanism, perhaps being ghost promises a more real living reality. Perhaps hell is what we live in right now - who the hell knows - perhaps this is what jazz music should be.
大鬼，褒义名词，用以指代生活中超出经验常识的人与事，尤其是特立独行、不按套路出牌的音乐演奏者。这是一种有人情味的鬼话，始作俑者似乎是乐手李维思，例句有：这是一大鬼，那天碰见一大鬼，昨天看了一大鬼演出。
依此类推，大鬼众就是一帮大鬼搞极端音乐。这是一个发起于2021年北京的演奏单元，形式开放，组织松散，目前为四人配置，成员包括李维思、李青、颜峻和羊库库。大鬼众的声音由嗡鸣音乐与厄运金属发端，与自由即兴、硬件噪音等传统汇流。强震荡器乐铺底，高低频人声奔袭，四只大鬼各司其职，自食其力也自食其果。
《大抱散》是大鬼众在2023年夏天为 Dusty Ballz 所做的一次录音。“大抱”是厂牌名字的音译，“散”也有“即兴”的意涵。A 面的曲目中，“鬼汉堡”是向陈青云的《鬼堡》致敬，“鬼大爷”是一位旅居北京的法国大鬼的江湖名号，“鬼洞”则是武夷山的岩茶产区；B面的两支长曲向晚期柯川遥遥点头，其中的一曲，李维思一度忘记了停止演奏。
人类登上太空之后，科学家开始觉得地狱可能就是自然失重。《大抱散》呈现出一种独特的对于大音量音乐的松弛的阐释，是鬼气使然。美和习惯随风而散，四只大鬼合气于漠，轻轻浮浮演奏着重型音乐。在道家，这可以叫抱朴守一，按照大鬼众的说法，这也可以叫爵士乐。
1. 鬼汉堡 Ghostbomb
2. 鬼谷子 Ghostgauze
3. 鬼大爷 Ghost Boys
4. 鬼洞 Ghost Cavern
5. 升天 Ascension
6. 哦哟 Om
releases November 1, 2024
李青：鼓
Li Qing: Drums
李维思：贝斯
Li Weisi: Bass
颜峻：电子、人声
Yan Jun: Electronics, Voice
羊库库：电子、人声
Yang Kuku: Electronics, Voice
音乐：大鬼众
Music by Ghostmass
录音、混音：李平
Recorded and Mixed by Li Ping
母带：Lasse Marhaug
Mastered by Lasse Marhaug
木刻：铁梅
Woodcut by Tiemei
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