Which Park Interview

By Sophia, 2010年 7月 16日

Which Park have been making music since 2005. They’re currently in the process of recording an album set for release in September 2010. You can catch them at Cow Fish Mouth Mountain Water Music Festival (牛鱼嘴山水音乐节), going on now. We had the opportunity to interview them after a show in Beijing recently.

Which Park 于2005年成立并开始创作音乐，目前乐队正在录制唱片，希望今年九月份发行，最近他们参加广东牛鱼嘴山水音乐节。上次Which Park来北京D-22专场，旁边儿有机会采访到了乐队主唱。

pangbianr: How did you and the other members of Which Park originally meet?

你和乐队其他成员是如何互相认识的？

Which Park: We were all students. I was friends with our bassist in high school; the other guitar player Wang and the drummer knew each other in middle school. After starting college, I was at the same university as the drummer while our bassist and the other guitar player were at another university. We’ve always had marvelous relationships.

我们都是同学。我和Bass手是高中同学，另外一个吉他手老王和鼓手是初中同学。上了大学以后我和鼓手又是大学同学，Bass手和另外一位吉他手老王是大学同学。，总之是很奇妙的关系。

pbr: Which Park’s sound is pretty unique: did it go through different stages of development? Were there specific impetuses for these changes?

Which Park的声音很独特，它有特定的发展阶段吗？有具体的动力激励这些改变吗？

Which Park: We experienced no progress for a very long time, which is to say we encountered many bottlenecks. During that time, every time we rehearsed it was pretty boring, almost every idea would be rejected. However, after a bit we gradually found our direction: we knew how to move forward. If during that difficult time we had given up we might just have broken up and not made it to where we are today.

Speaking of motivating forces, for example, I’ll listen to some music I’d never heard before. For this I’m grateful to our previous guitarist Leon: the band he previously played in is called Spiral Cow. Spiral Cow is China’s first meaningful math rock band. I prefer more melodious songs － I’m less sensitive to aspects of rhythm. He [Leon] played many bands that emphasize the rhythm portion in their music. Initially I rejected these bands but they gradually grew on me. Through rhythm, you can discover new things, especially really interesting bits, in the music. I’m really into African music.

我们曾经经历过很长一段时间没有进步，算是遇到了瓶颈。那段时间每次排练都很无聊，几乎每一个动机都会被否决掉。不过后来就渐渐找到了方向，知道应该怎么发展，如果那个时候就放弃了，可能就解散了，Which Park也不会做到现在。

说到动力，比如说我会去听一些以前从来没听过的音乐，这要感谢我们的前鼓手leon，他之前玩的乐队叫spiral cow.是国内第一支意义上的math rock.我比较喜欢旋律，对节奏不太敏感。他给我听了很多玩节奏的乐队，一开始比较排斥，后来就慢慢喜欢上了。通过节奏可以发现一些新的，而且特别有意思的东西在里面。我特别喜欢一些非洲音乐。

pbr: Why, between English and Chinese, do you usually choose to write lyrics in English?

你为什么在中文和英文歌词之间作出选择用英文创作呢？

Which Park: I’m not a very frank person — I chose to use a second language to express myself more deftly。

我不是特别直白的人，我选择第二语言来表达会更婉转一些。

pbr: If applicable, how do you see yourselves relative to a history of Western or Chinese rock music?

如果合适的话，你如何看待自己对于西方或中国摇滚音乐的历史

Which Park: Chinese rock was finished very early on. Without spirit, without a core, rock music can’t exist. Western rock music is a huge structure: from economics to culture, the influence is quite deep. In the eyes of Westerners rock music is perhaps not only a form of expression via music, but more of an aspect of spiritual enjoyment.

中国的摇滚乐很早就已经完蛋了。没有精神，没有核，就不可能有摇滚乐。西方摇滚乐有一个庞大的体系。从经济到文化，影响的很深。在西方人眼里摇滚乐可能不仅仅是音乐的一种表达形式，更多的是精神层面的享受。

pbr: What are your influences?

哪些音乐人对你的影响比较大？

Which Park: Tortoise,Broken Social scene,Arcade Fire,惘闻,Radiohead

pbr: What did you listen to when you were growing up?

你们小时候听什么样的音乐？

Which Park: Hong Kong pop.

香港流行音乐。

pbr: What are some other bands you’re excited to see in China?

在中国国内的乐队中，你们最喜欢看哪个乐队的表演？

Which Park: Wang Wen and Rebuilding the Rights of Statues (Re-TROS).

惘闻和重塑雕像的权利.

pbr: What’s the Dalian scene like compared to the Beijing scene?

大连的音乐氛围跟北京的比较有什么区别？

Which Park: Dalian is small, without much of a nightlife to speak of. All you can do is write songs and rehearse: all the bands here are like this because there’s nothing else to do. Beijing is a large city, maybe it takes a long time to get to the rehearsal place, but at the same time there are also a lot of opportunities, competition is more intense. However, I think that might not necessarily be a good thing because you then spend a lot of time dealing with interpersonal relationships and can’t spend 100% of your time thinking about music. Maybe these are fundamentally things a musician just shouldn’t spend time doing.

大连很小，也没有什么丰富的夜生活。你能做的事情就是写歌，排练，而且这里所有的乐队都是这样，没有什么别的事情可做。北京是个大城市，可能去排练要花很长时间，不过同样机会也很多，竞争也比较激烈，不过我觉得那可能不是什么好的事情。因为那样你可能要花很多时间去处理人际关系，而不能把心思百分之百放在做音乐上。这些可能压根就不是一个乐手该做的。

pbr: Have you ever considered moving to Bejing? Why haven’t you?

你们有考虑过搬至北京吗？

Which Park: We don’t like it there. You can make music anywhere as long as you enjoy it.

我们不喜欢那。做音乐在哪里都可以做。只要你喜欢。

pbr: What do you think is the most important thing for your band and rock music in China right now?

你认为目前中国的摇滚乐面对的最重要的事情是什么？

Which Park: Everyone in the industry needs to change their attitude, then we just wait for a miracle.

所有做这个行业的人都需要改变态度。然后等待奇迹发生吧。

pbr: What’s the deal with your neon sign?

Which Park 上次演出的有人举出了一个你们乐队的Led牌子？你知道这件事情吗？

Which Park: It’s a play on words. I’ll tell you next time I see you. It’s actually pretty boring.

是一个文字游戏。下次去了见面告诉你。其实还挺无聊的

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