Red Red Meat, The Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, God Speed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Mono, Explosion in the Sky, Do Make Say Think, A Silver Mt. Zion, Sunny Day Real Estate, Polvo, Palace Brothers, Hair Skin Company, Radiat Spangles, Dinosaur Jr.
Band members:
Guitar: Xie yugang/Geng xin
Bass: Zheng zi
Drums: Lian jiang
Keyboard:Zhang Yanfeng
General Info
The band was formed in the city of Dalian, a busy seaport in northeast china, in the year of 1999. Wangwen was at first started by two awkward (at that time!) guitarists who were crazy about The Smashing Pumpkins and later joined by the drummer who also brought along the band name, representing the idea of an unknown band and insensibility to what others say. The band began to record their first demo- ‘the animal world’ on their own in the same year they formed. Since then the band members had been changing while continuous creation of new pieces of music and performing. ‘lingshuihe’(‘the IceWaterRiver’)was recorded on their own in 2000 and the third demo ‘the Tenebrous Yinyang Road’ was also completed two years later. During this period the music style of the band had been gradually changing from vocal to instrumental and started to draw broad attentions both from the reviews and the audience as well. It was considered as the one of the leading band from china in the fields of post-rock and acid rock. The band was influenced by: Mogwai, Red Red Meat, Mono, Explosion in the Sky, Polvo, Tortois--GYBE, etc.
So Rock Records,2003
6 Tales for 50 People(album)
Self-release,2005
RE:RE:RE:(album)
RHC,2006
7 Objects in Another Infinite Space(album)
Fox Tail,2007
0306 (box set)
Fox Tail/SC,2007
IV (album)
Fox Tail,2008
Memorabilia:
2003: released the debut album ‘Diary of 28 Sleepless Days’ by ‘So Rock Records’.
Mar.2004: received interview from a famous Chinese rock music journal ‘So Rock’.
2004: two songs (‘the Dying End of Year’ and ‘Plentiful Harvest’) from the album were chosen for‘the Collection of the Year’ by the journal ‘So Rock’.
2004: recorded the single ‘Tide’ which lasted for 20 min long and released in the bonus CDs of the journal ‘So Rock’ and ‘X Music Magazine’.
Jul.2004: received interview from another famous Chinese music journal the ‘X Music Magazine’.
Beginning of 2005: self-released the album ‘6 Tales for 50 People’ recorded at the end of 2004.
Jun.2005: Rock Action Club was founded by the band and has now become the only live house for rock music in Dalian.
Nov.2005: remixed the album ‘6 Tales for 50 People’ and released the new version with the album name changed to ‘RE:RE:RE’.
Jan.2006: recorded the track ‘APPLE’ for the DVD documentary of MIDI music festival, Beijing,2005.
Oct.2006: signed up with ‘Scream Records’ and released the album ‘RE:RE:RE’.
Apr.2007: released their fourth full length album ‘7 Objects in Another Infinite Space’ under the label ‘Fox Tail Records’ and started out for their tour around the nation.
Dec.2007:released their EP "0306" (100 copies limited)
Our new album "Herbarium" is
out now on CdBaby (MP3 so far, physical CD is on its way).
Diverse palette of styles (post-rock,
ambient, electronica, trip-hop, with elements of noise, dub,
neoclassic and free improvisation), united by cinematic, slightly
pensive mood.
«Herbarium» is called so
because of heterogeneity of «songs», which can be
compared to miscellaneous leaves in the album, still being belonged
to the family of trees. Trying to avoid non-alive metaphors here,
only thought of diversity and warm and innermost feeling that
herbarium is capable to conjure up. «... This leaf I picked up
in the park where I met her, and this - I sat by the river,
contemplating...». So tracks were created – one was captured
in some magic jam, another – recorded layer by layer and
meticulously mixed then, next – cut from previous sessions and so
on.
All compositions are united by Poostosh
sense of music – mostly pensive, spatial, tender and experimental.
There's a lot of soul and charisma in every leaf... So please let
your soul look over our HERBARIUM.
Our new album "Herbarium" is
out now on CdBaby (MP3 so far, physical CD is on its way).
Diverse palette of styles (post-rock,
ambient, electronica, trip-hop, with elements of noise, dub,
neoclassic and free improvisation), united by cinematic, slightly
pensive mood.
«Herbarium» is called so
because of heterogeneity of «songs», which can be
compared to miscellaneous leaves in the album, still being belonged
to the family of trees. Trying to avoid non-alive metaphors here,
only thought of diversity and warm and innermost feeling that
herbarium is capable to conjure up. «... This leaf I picked up
in the park where I met her, and this - I sat by the river,
contemplating...». So tracks were created – one was captured
in some magic jam, another – recorded layer by layer and
meticulously mixed then, next – cut from previous sessions and so
on.
All compositions are united by Poostosh
sense of music – mostly pensive, spatial, tender and experimental.
There's a lot of soul and charisma in every leaf... So please let
your soul look over our HERBARIUM.
Hi! We are just fighting with twitter...jesus this website has some server problems whole the time;) Do you have twitter? What do you think about the idea behind it? Hope your day rocked your socks off, Keep on good work and think about us - it's spring and everybody needs love;)
You can now listen to new K-Jell songs at our myspace site. The songs are taken from the new K-Jell cd “refreshing power” which will be out in about 2 weeks time in China and Europe sometime during April 2009 on October Party Records.
Hope you will take 3-4 min to listen and let us know what you think, leave a comment in the comment section.
