Cold Fairyland

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Cold Fairyland (冷酷仙境, lěngkù xiānjìng )

1 Lineup
2 Introduction
3 Discography
4 Additional Information

Lineup

Lin Di 林笛 : Pipa, Keyboards, Vocals. Education: Shanghai Conservatory of Music: Major: Traditional Chinese Music, Pipa, Graduated 1997. Born 1975 Shanghai

Su Yong 苏勇 : Bass, Background Vocals, Other job: MIDI Device Engineer at a music instrument factory. Born 1975 Anhui

Zhou ShenAn 周圣安 : Cello, Background Vocals: Education: Shanghai Opera School, Graduated 2005, Other job: Cellist in Shanghai Opera. Born 1985 Shanghai

Li Jia 李佳 : Drums, Background Vocals. Education: Shanghai Theatre Academy. Other job: Drums and Percussion Teacher. Born 1980 Shanghai

Song JianFeng 宋建丰 : Guitar. Other job: MIDI Device Engineer at a music instrument factory. Born 1978 Shanghai

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Introduction

Cold Fairyland, a Shanghai music group, is one of the most creative and skilled progressive rock bands in China. Their style combines Eastern melodies and rhythms with Western symphonic rock. While the fusion part is relatively easy to describe the music itself is not. Combining riffs that are in 7/8 or 13/8 and often layered to be played with different instruments simultaniously might make one to think the end result is a chaos, but the music is still entertaining and solid. Their music has influences from Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, early Genesis, Björk, Wong Faye and Dou Wei.

Composer/arranger/keyboardist and Pipa master Lin Di has been playing pipa since she was 4 years old. Her arrangement skills are bringing out often very surprising elements from the mix of cello/pipa/keyboards/bass/drums and electric guitar.

CFL was established 2001 by Lin Di and bassist Su Yong. The name Cold Fairyland comes from a Chinese translation of one of Haruki Murakami's books (known in English as "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World") favored by Lin Di and reflects the sometimes dark tones of their music.

Cold Fairyland has released 5 albums, two in Taiwan, 3 in China the last one being a live album recorded in ARK Club in Shanghai 2005.

Performances include concerts in Europe and around China including Beijing MIDI Festival 2004 and 2006.

In 2004, Cold Fairyland contributed to the John Lennon Tribute of Yu Yin Tang Music and performed & recorded the song "Eleanor Rigby".

On July 3rd, 2005, one of their songs was featured in the 16th show of Dragonradio.

May 1st-4th, 2006, they performed during the Midi Music Festival 2006.

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