月谏房 by 孟雀 Meng Que

专辑自述：
这张专辑构思之初，正值新冠疫情爆发，世界的剧变之下，有人更多把眼光投向外部世界，而在长期的孤立生活中，我得以更多思考自身，思考人与音乐相辅相成的时空关系。

from Meng Que：
This album was conceived at the time of the outbreak of the pandemic. Under this turbulent circumstance, some are focusing on the outer world, but in the long-term isolation, I was able to contemplate myself, and the intertwining spacial and temporal relation between humans and music. 

世界充斥着无处不在的声响，比起响的部分，那些没有响的部分更让我着迷。沉默之中是什么，虚无或另一种饱满？在《月谏房》中，我常采取一种留白的方式，让那些没有响的部分得以凸显，变成听者的想象，抑或“沉默”自在的言说，但愿听者不会将它粗暴地理解为音乐上的简陋。同时，在部分曲目中我保留了音乐悦耳、温暖的成分，并尽力与歌词文本取得一种平衡。《月谏房》尝试突破音乐载体的一些限制，希望听者初听的时候不必预设风格，可以连贯以待。

The world is filled with ubiquitous sounds, but compared to the sounds, it is the silence that fascinated me the most. What is in silence, nothingness, or another kind of fullness? In “Yue Jian Fang”, I usually leave space to highlight the silent parts, which would turn into the imagination of the listener, or the soliloquies from “silence” itself. I hope the listener will not roughly interpret that as the crudeness of music. At the same time, in some of the tracks, I kept the euphonic and warm composition of the music and tried to achieve a balance between that and the lyrics. “Yue Jian Fang” attempts to break through some of the limitations of the music as a medium, hoping that the listener does not have to preset any genres when first listening, but treat it as a whole.

在录音及后期制作上，由于条件所限以及个人审美的倾向，我进行了一种近乎无细节处理的处理。这里有我的呼吸、唇齿音，和某些原声乐器不那么精致的音效，它们是我的真实状态。

In the recording and post-production, due to the limitations and personal aesthetic preferences, I performed an edit that was almost non-detailed. There are my breathing, sibilance, and the less refined sound effects of certain acoustic instruments - they are my true state.

特别感谢我的好友胡嘉岷，和研究当代音乐的朋友王翾。感谢厂牌主理人 Endy Chen、母带师 Eric Lau 和发行人员庄雪凡所付出的心血。最后，我想借用 Pascal Dusapin 的一句话：“音乐，是对瞬间的无尽的悼亡。”这瞬间里，充斥着意志和不可言说之物。现在，《月谏房》发行在即，我唯一真实的感受，好像是略带伤感的与之告别。


Special thanks to my dear friend Hu Jiamin, and Wang Xuan who study contemporary music. Thanks to the hard work from the label owner Endy Chen, mastering engineer Eric Lau, and the release assistant Zhuang Xuefan. In the end, allows me to borrow a quote from Pascal Dusapin:“Music is the incessant mourning of the moment”, a moment full of will and the unspeakable. Now, the release of “Yue Jian Fang” is ready. The only real feeling of mine is the sentiment triggered by its departure.

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孟雀，1996年生，自幼学习钢琴，现居江苏。19岁获得文学学士学位后，对音乐的热爱使她从文学创作转向音乐创作。2021年签约 1asia 发行首张个人专辑《月谏房》。


Meng Que, born in 1996, studied piano since childhood, now lives in Jiangsu province. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts at the age of 19, her devotion to music guides her from literary creation to music creation. Signed with 1asia in 2021, she released her debut album “Yue Jian Fang”.

心中的一个亚洲
1asia is a record label focus on Asian artist of all genres.