Sand
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Sand (沙子 Sha Zi) from Beijing. Sand combines Chinese rock music with traditional American blues.
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Lineup
Vocals / Guitar - Liu Dong Hong (刘冬虹)
Bass - He Wen Jin (贺文进)
Saxophone - Wang Tian Xiao (王天晓)
Drums - Deng Xia (邓夏)
Manager - Hu Hai Tao (胡海涛 )
History
The band Sand was officially formed in 1996.
If you ask Liu Donghond, vocalist of the band Sand, when he play guitar for the first time, he cannot remember it. "Some people tell me, that I had been around three years old, when I discovered the guitar of my father", he says. "It was totally out-of-tune and I have never seen or heard my father playing it." Thereafter a few years had to pass, before Liu Donghong founded his first badn. That was in 1996, he was 25 years old and had bought himself a used guitar and had wrote numerous songs.
Their first concert Sand hold in the same year in a foreign language university. Liu Donghong remembers: "I think they had a lot of fun with us. All bands, that performed that time, were just terrible. We weren't better." As this had to change, the whole band moved for the next years for three summers in the area of Beijing's west mountains - they rented a cheap old temple close to Badachu, rehearsed the whole day together and only went back to the city to give concerts.
Until the present day all songs were written by vocalis Liu Donghong and are written and sung in Chinese. Some of their songs are simple love songs, some, such as the song "Fortune", tell a story of social misery, in which China is. With his lyrics, that he usually sings in a rap-style, Liu Donghong combines both the elements of Chinese rock music as a protest culture (beginning of the 80s) and the tradition of American blues until Tom Waits, in whose songs also often the "small man" is topiced. The darker shades of the Chinese dream are the fields of interest of Liu Donghong: The isolated, the night owls and drunkards, the punished and stigmatized, the lost and hurt.
Sand's concerts usually attract a large Chinese audience. In winter 2005, they went on a China tour through 9 cities.
In the year 2005, Sand were filmed for the documentary movie Beijing Bubbles.
October 2003, Sand joined the Midi Modern Music Festival 2003.
October 2004, Sand joined the Midi Modern Music Festival 2004.
In October 2005, they performed during the Midi Music Festival 2005.
Discography
- The Stars Fell On My Head - 2005
Further information
- Beijing Bubbles, documentary movie including Sand
