周云蓬“谷雨”民谣演唱会

时间：2008年4月20日 周日 20：00
地点：朝阳区文化馆9个剧场
地址：朝外东三环京广桥东 朝阳路小庄路口东北角
乘车路线：9、101、112、115、118、306、342、382、
388、671、718、729、846、855路，小庄站。
票价： 30元
订票电话：85991188 13661049145
制作人：崔文嵚 cuiwenqin@gmail.com

他不是精英，不是杰出青年，不是劳动模范，不是政客，不是知识分子，不是文化人，不是频频奔赴威尼斯的艺术家；
他是民间艺人，是城市和村庄的流浪者，靠手艺吃饭，为自己创作，为普通人献艺。他跟艺术潮流之古典、前卫没什么关系，跟包装、商业也没什么关系。他自得其乐，自食其苦。他不想改变这世界，更不想为世界所改变。
——著名女诗人 尹丽川
　　周云蓬——不仅突出地兼具了民间精神和先锋精神，也兼具了他个人独有的孤傲的内向型诗人和民间落魄艺人这两种角色。他的《中国孩子》从房价、黄金周、关于城市事故的新闻报道、小时候的共产主义之梦获取题材，以从低沉到尖锐、从死寂到呼喝的方式演唱，形同太平盛世的一声晴天霹雳。和史铁生一样，周云蓬也是了悟到残废是一种宿命的人，他说目盲是一扇门，只对他打开。我瞎了，你看得见，这两样人生，各有各的命运，各有各的局限，各有各的妙处，都是一种体验，不可以同时兼得。
——著名乐评人 李皖
周云蓬并非一位特别风格化的民谣歌者，他的长处在于用最简单的旋律去描述惊心动魄的肉体和心灵炼狱。
——著名乐评人 张晓舟

周云蓬
　　1970年，我出生于辽宁。幼年时，因患眼病随母亲四处求医。整个童年充满了火车、医院、手术室和酒精棉的味道。九岁时，彻底失明。留在视觉中的最后印象是动物园里的大象用鼻子吹口琴。这大概是我后来弹琴写歌的最初动因。
　　1980年我进入沈阳盲童学校读书。1989年在天津读高中。1991年，考入长春大学中文专业，1994年毕业。大学期间，失恋两次，收徒弟若干人，我教他们弹吉它，不要学费，只要求学生为我读一本书。那时候，我最爱的书是米兰•昆德拉《生命中不能承受之轻》和加缪的《局外人》。
　　大学毕业后，我被分配到一家做色拉油的工厂，具体工作是呆在家里，每个月去工厂领150元生活保障金。几个月下来，我实在无法忍受这种屈辱寂寞的苟活，于是，说服父母，背上吉它，去了北京，我想从此洗心革面重新做人。
　　我在圆明园的画家村租了一间小房子，月租金80元。然后找到了工作，那也是我们盲人最古老的职业：街头卖艺。我每天清晨和小商小贩以及众多普通劳动者一起出发，背起吉它，扛上音箱，卷一张大饼，走到海淀图书城，这是我工作的地方。支好音箱调好弦，就开唱。从罗大佑唱到约翰列侬，到了晚上，背着半口袋毛票和硬币，回到我的废墟。如果这一天收成好，那么废墟就会变成天堂，我可以买一瓶啤酒，半斤猪头肉，犒劳一下自己，在酒肉香中憧憬憧憬未来。
　　1997年，我去了南京、上海、杭州、青岛、长沙，一路卖唱，偶尔在大学开一两次演唱会，结交朋友又匆匆离开，喝不同牌子的啤酒，不同风味的米酒。
1998年，我到了云南，在昆明那个灯红酒绿的春城，花光了口袋里所有的钱，然后跟头把式地逃票狼狈地回到北京。
1999年，我和朋友们创办了民刊《命与门》，这是一本充满宗教情绪的文学刊物，我也正式开始写一些诗和歌曲。
2001年，我只身去了西藏，站在海拔6000多米的唐古拉山顶，我感觉只要给我足够的设备，登上月球，也不在话下。我在拉萨住了半年，在一家藏族人开的酒吧里唱歌。以后又去了山南、那曲。
　　2002年回京与朋友们办了第二本民刊《低岸》，主要想以诗的方式来阐释地下人的精神状态。
2003年，我与摩登天空音乐公司签约，并录制了我的第一张专辑《沉默如谜的呼吸》。整张专辑作品优美却不流蜜，简约却不枯燥，黯然却不神伤，深邃却不晦涩，为最具人文气质之作。看似沉默如谜，却仿佛早已窥破命运的秘密。
　　我到处走，写诗唱歌，并非想证明什么，只是我喜欢这种生活，喜欢像水一样奔流激荡。我也不是那种爱向命运挑战的人，并不想挖空心思征服它。我和命运是朋友，君子之交淡如水，我们形影相吊又若即若离，命运的事情我管不了，它干它的，我干我的，不过是相逢一笑泯恩仇罢了。

Zhou Yun-peng
Born in Liao Ning Province in the year 1970, Zhou Yun-peng fell blind at the age of 9 due to an eye disease. Then his childhood became an ever-moving one as his mother persistently took him by train to hospitals in different regions for medical treatment. But according to Zhou Yun-peng, although his parents were quite unsettled about his loss of vision, he himself didn't feel very bad about it. He said that his hometown Shen Yang, an industrial city with a gloomy atmosphere, didn't leave him very obsessed about missing the visible world.
However, a journey to Beijing at the age of 17 completely changed his perspective. He traveled to Beijing all alone by himself, wandering through some historical spots and finished his first encounter with the city by taking in a rather simple local meal.
However, this brief encounter with Beijing assured Zhou Yun-peng that it isn't impossible for him to start traveling across the country.
At the age of 21, he passed the entrance examination and was recruited into the Chang Chun University's Department of Chinese Studies. With a keen interest in the world of literature, Zhou Yun-peng managed to hear pieces of prose or a short story in exchange for teaching his story-tellers how to play guitar. During the four years on campus, he dreamed up his own imaginary land with various literary works.
Upon graduation, Zhou Yun-peng was offered a job at a local factory in Shen Yang in accordance with preferential policies for the blind. However, unsatisfied with the life of reaping without sowing, he quit the job and journeyed back to Beijing again. But this time it was not for a short stay, but rather for a long living in the cultural centre of China.
Being blind and an outsider, this new life was difficult for sure, especially at the beginning. Zhou Yun-peng started to sing for his living in the streets and corners of this enormous city, covering works from the Beatles to folk rock songs from Taiwan. However, he never took this experience as awkward or shameful. Rather, singing somehow helped him prove his worth in this unfamiliar city. Here is the song Unfettered Around, which might describe the folkie's life in the city.
Zhou Yun-peng started an unfettered journey across the country, along the east coast to southwestern China, as far as the city of Kun Ming, known for its spring like weather throughout the year. And as such, the local scenery might have been found to be too beautiful and the wine there too fragrant, and Zhou Yun-peng finally flustered back with empty pockets. However, this man, with hooded eyes but an unbonded heart started off on an even more remote journey to Tibet in 2001. After reaching the top of the Tanggula Mountains at an altitude of more than 6 kilometers high, Zhou Yun-peng believed that he could one day set foot on the moon. Well, that belief can be regarded as an illusion when one's enjoying a sense of self-complacence. However, such illusions can sometimes help one undergo the difficulties at hand, especially one like Zhou Yun-peng, who's stuck in the hardships of real life but simultaneously animated in his own mental world.
To Zhou Yun-peng, life turned its genial face to him when, in 1998, he received an invitation to be a pub singer in the city of Chang Sha in Hunan Province. This was the turning point of Zhou Yun-peng singing career. From then on, he could not only sing on a focused stage, but also receive applause and sighs with kindred emotion.