Zhou Ren

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Contents 1 History 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Compilations 3 Festival Participation 4 Further Information

History

Since 1991 Zhou Ren started his rock odysee. While the majority of Beijing's rock band still stick to the traditional play style of classic rock Zhou Ren started to experiment and try to imitate the music of oversea artists, that was the start of his first band Rusty Iron 锈铁 which fell onto the scene like a bomb, some even speaks of important influence on young rock musicians back then. Nevertheless he is generally being innovative and a pioneer in Chinese rock. Rusty Iron only lasted for 1 year without any recorded songs. With his 2nd band Hong Shao Rou 红烧肉 he turned more to grunge and finally in 1996, after the band disbanded due to inner disagreement on contract issues with the label, Zhang Ren cut his solo debut album "Squeeze" (《榨取》) in October 1996, music critics celebrated this out put as the first real Chinese grunge album. A trip-hop styled song "Wind, Horse, Bull" 風﹒馬﹒牛 wend onto the famous compilation China Fire 3. Later on he kept being active in the Beijing underground scene until today but remained mainly without further major outputs.

从 1991年组织乐队开始，周韧即勇敢地表现了和所有人都截然迥异且强烈、绝对的音乐风格；在当时北京的多数乐队尚坚守着纯老式摇滚乐的型式，几乎所有人都还在摸索仿傲着国外老唱片的粗糙原形，周韧及鏽铁乐队的出现，立即在北京引起一阵骚动，他带来了无法归类却又令人惊异的音乐特质，对那时候许许多多正在做音乐的年轻乐手们造成了相当大的影响力。

　　像是代表着一种全新的声音，和所有人都不同的音乐个性，周韧一直是北京众多摇滚乐创作者中最大胆前卫且令人不得不侧目的另类先驱，他将不被见容的诚实反应在歌词文字里，转为充满惊奇的趣味与创意，更尝试运用许多人声效果以带来听觉上的刺激，加上极具戏剧张力的唱法，周韧意图在歌曲中找到真正音乐的自我理想实现，打破既定规则的种种不可能限制，向前开展另类新音乐的一片天空。

　　这是华人新音乐的一大突破，听者如果能真正的放开自己，将会在十一首宽广具有无限可能的空间里，感受到周韧多样的原创色彩，以释放长久以来被压抑禁锢的听觉自由。

Discography

Albums

Zha Qu (Zhou Lei) 《榨取》 October 1996 Rolling Stone / Magic Stone Records MSD019

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Compilations

China Fire 3

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Festival Participation

Zhenjiang Midi Music Festival 2010

Further Information

• Listening of his Debut album
• a blog article about Zhou Ren
• Info and Lyrics of his Debut album on Douban
• a blog article about the reunion show of Hong Shao Rou

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