Cui Jian: Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST 2023
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- For the third year, Tiny Desk concerts team up with globalFEST for a thrilling online music festival - Tiny Desk meets globalFEST.
Bob Boilen | January 28, 2023
Hosted by Angélique Kidjo, the series echoes globalFEST’s live flagship event in spirit but is centered in the framework of the Tiny Desk concert series. This collaboration presents exclusive video performances from nine artists filmed in their respective homelands, on the road and in exile all over the world. There will be three nights of concerts, each featuring three bands, on consecutive nights beginning Jan. 24 at 8 p.m. ET. The globalFEST team wrote the following biographical information about each performer.
Cui Jian, China
The most influential rock musician in China is Beijing-born, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist Cui Jian. The former leader of Chinese rock band Ado, Jian's solo music is continually embraced by new generations: his albums having sold more than 10 million copies in Asia. The Wall Street Journal said, "Cui Jian continues to be an inspiration for China's disenchanted youth." However, Jian's prime inspiration comes not from politics, but from personal issues. He said, "I talk about serious things in my heart and people's lives, including, of course, love. But, mostly it's about Chinese culture, the modern culture. They're not political songs. It's just the truth, the modern truth. I talk about our life in China."
SET LIST
"Fake Monk"
"Go On"
"Wild in the Snow"
MUSICIANS
Cui Jian: lead vocals, guitar
Liu Yuan: saxophone
Eddie Randriamampionona: guitar
Liu Yue: bass
Lu Chao: drums
Gao Xing: hand percussion
Wu Na: Chinese guqin
Zhou Tian: vocals
Li Yanan: vocals
CREDITS
Art Director: Cui Jian
Executive Producer: Yoyo
Executive Director: Ken Deng
Live Music Recording Engineer: Li Feng
Live Music Supervisor: Wang Zheng
Live Recordist: Zheng Xiaofei
Program: Wang Zheng
Live Monitor Sound Engineer: Xu Xuan
Audio Equipment Coordinator: Wang Chaojie
Sound Mixing/Mastering: Li Make
Musician Assistants: Yang Haitao, Gao Shuo
Videographers: Ken Deng, Li Bingwei, Xu Zhu, Li Qianpeng, Jiao Mingjie, Jin Siwei
Assistant: He Chang
Gaffer: Sun Qunliang
Assistant: Sun Xujie, Cao Yawei, Wang Xinqiao, Cao Junfei
Coordinator: Wang Zebin, Sira
Special thanks to East Shore Jazz Club
TINY DESK TEAM
Creative Director: Bob Boilen
Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin
Series Producer: Bobby Carter
Editing: Joshua Bryant
Tiny Desk Team: Marissa Lorusso, Hazel Cills, Ashley Pointer
GLOBALFEST TEAM
Co-Directors: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, and Bill Bragin
2023 Curators: Shanta Thake, Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin, and Meera Dugal
Event Producer: Ian Thake
Host: Angélique Kidjo
Legal Services: Tamizdat
Legal Services: Duane Morris
Video Production: Karim Tabbaa
FUNDERS:
The Mellon Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
SPECIAL THANKS:
Ken Umezaki
Fabian Alsultany
Steven Kirkpatrick
David Komar
For those who don't know: Cui Jian is like Bob Dylan to China.
So I had to Google this gentleman and it says he’s the god father of Chinese rock. The instrumentals sound like a combination of jazz brass, bluegrass, ancient asiatic instruments and wood instruments. I really enjoyed it. It’s nice to experience a new style of music and I may not understand the language but I can hear the passion in his voice. The melody is very nice and calming. Music is truly the universal language. Thank you for sharing your gifts with love from a Black American music enthusiast!
Marvellous. Music like that just transcends any cultural boundaries so easily, it seems, and makes you see how much the same we are at the end, all humans. Thank you!
Growing up in china town, being exposed to all kinds of Asian-Pacific culture, this is groovy
cui jian is an absolute icon in chinese rock since a few decades now. what a treat to see him on npr. i came across cui jian on accident when i was a elementary school kid. not an age where you would expect someone to appreciate this kind of music, but i fell in love nonetheless. later dicovered he is also a favorite of my dad, i was already an adult at that time. cui jian has a very special place in my heart not only because of the fantastic music and his straight up personality, but also because he forms a bond between me and my dad that i teasure. well done npr!! you definitely made my day. not the first time though from you guys :)
Thank you so much for this powerful music. It really doesn't matter that I have no idea what they are saying. All I hear is voices and instruments that touch me.
Surprisingly delight to find Cui's gig in NPR , I grew up listening his music that opened the door for me to explore more Rock'roll band. Always joyful to listen his acoustic version too ❤,BTW Eddy is such an underestimated guitarist played his part amazingly here, He's been in Cui's band ever since the band formed , And Liu Yuan .
I've seen Cui Jian twice in concert and met him in person once. Every time, he was wearing that same hat.
东岸 is a beautiful music venue next to a beautiful landmark of Beijing, feeling overly nostalgic from this performance for my time spent studying abroad there
great taste from the editor. Jian is amazing and one of the greatest modern singer in China
非常激动能在NPR看到崔健的演唱…仿佛一下回到1991年在沈阳看他的“新长征路上摇滚”，整个体育馆一群热血年轻人跟着他喊每一首歌，记得大家跟着节拍跺脚从开始到结束…❤❤ well done NPR 👍👍
老崔真该在youTube 开个频道，把所有的歌都录成这样的效果。功德无量！❤
在NPR上看到崔健的現場好驚喜，這麼多年過去，崔健的歌還是這麼帥，真爺們。
My first concert was cuijian’s “Night of an Era” on December 31, 1999. More than twenty years have gone by and he’s still a legend!
WOW!!!!!!!!! One of the best Tiny Desk performances I've seen in a while. Thank you NPR and Thank you globalFEST.
this is the real music of the working man.
Wow! Chinese rock! So proud of seeing Chinese musicians here❤❤❤
Cui Jian is the godfather of rock in China, and he’s work is so innovative and full of character. He’s lyrics are always critical and until now we Chinese, still can’t listen to a few of his songs in our local music app. Because he criticised the government but no in very direct words. Those few songs still got banned until now, and it was made in the 80s. Can you believe that?
I never know how seriously to take him when he says his songs are not about politics. Here, maybe a better translation of some of the lines of "Go On":
很高兴在这个平台看到他