Cui Jian 崔健 King of Sino Rock Chinese Music 中國搖滾 Art Rock Avant Garde Non Pop

A clip of a live concert in front of a 50,000+ audience in Shandong city of Jinan province. CJ's usual cast of Liu Yuan on woodwinds, Eddie Randriamampionana (i'm pretty sure i got that right!) on guitar, Beibei on drums, and guest bassist Wu Junde (of the hardcore industrial rock band Tongue {Shetou)) filling in for then regular bassist Zhang Ling; CJ's current bassist is the upright-string jazz bass persona Liu Yue. It was a big night of colorful rock music renditions featuring bands like: Tang Dynasty, Hei Bao, The Flowers, Hang on the Box, Zero Point, Wang Feng and 43 Baojia St., Sick Pupa, and etc.

Like in a variety of other Cui Jian songs, his lyrics depict a story that appear to be something about his past love and personal relationships, but as always, they're quite cryptic and may be interpreted in a larger and more worldly sense; CJ's "lover" may be an entity or mindset that we all have to deal with at certain points in our lives, and this/these entities may boast a certain high ideology, but in real life and practice, we seek reform from this/these high-ideology.

Cui Jian is very much the rare push-the-envelope avant-garde musician-songwriter and his creations very much grooves and speaks universally for all people of our planet Earth.

NOTE (response to the question of "avant-garde"): Cui Jian is among a legion of modern music-artists that represent a cutting edge (and cut-throat) avant-garde music composition and performance; in this particulary video, I've referenced avant-garde as a key search word/title to help culturally open-minded netizens access the Chinese avant-garde; so here's something more instantly representative of CJ's avant-garde for folks who see/hear avant-garde in a slightly more superficial sense: WWWyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=VPhakkmqhcA THANX & ENJOY!

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[WangDianshi]

Cui Jian is among a legion of modern music-artists that represent a cutting edge (and cut-throat) avant-garde music composition and performance; in this particulary video, I've referenced avant-garde as a key search title to help culturally open-minded netizens access the Chinese avant-garde; so here's something more instantly representative of CJ's avant-garde for folks who see/hear avant-garde in a slightly more superficial sense: youtubeDOTcom (backslash) watch?v=VPhakkmqhcA

THANX & ENJOY!

[butterflyoasis]

Its Randriamampionona actually :) but almost right

[donottawaguitar]

nice

[mattblarsen]

This is really great! Kewl music man!

[robertronics]

where´s the avant garde music video?