简介
工工工是一支以节奏为主导的二人乐队,两位成员分别是来自香港乐队憬观:像同叠的吴卓,及北京 Post Punk 兄弟班 Hot & Cold 的 Joshua Frank。两人一直活跃于北京的地下音乐圈,并且从2015 年开始,以工工工名义在北京和台北等地演出。
将 Blues、Rockn' Roll 和 Folk 等音乐元素解拆再重组,工工工用他们仅有的结他和贝斯重复敲击弹奏,交织出乐器间的「幽灵节奏」:结他的弹拨幻化为军鼓和钹片;贝斯的音律间又会发出有如地鼓的轰鸣。精心设计又异常粗糙,两人大巧不工的音乐灵感源自于 Blues 殿堂吉他手 Bo Diddley、简约主义、以及从西非到东南亚不同地域的迷幻音乐。
乐队成员均为中国* Analog 唱片品牌——玫瑰楼模拟的发起者之一。他们曾与不少*音乐单位合作,包括 Silver Apples、Dirty Beaches、Tonstartssbandht 和 Forests 等,并经由 Night People、根茎唱片、Moniker Records 和兵马司等音乐品牌发表不少出色的音乐作品。
(Gong Gong Gong) is a rhythm-oriented guitar and bass boogie unit. The group was formed in Beijing in 2015 by Tom Ng of famed Hong Kong band The Offset: Spectacles and Joshua Frank of wild post-punk brother duo Hot & Cold. Both have been active in Beijing's underground music scene for a decade.
Gong Gong Gong reshapes and deconstructs blues, rock n' roll, and folk storytelling, using repetition and percussive playing techniques to draw out "phantom rhythms" between instruments. Guitar strumming becomes a snare-and-cymbal pulse, and bass melodies are punctuated with muted low-end roar. Meticulously structured but also untethered and raw,
Gong Gong Gong's sound draws inspiration from Bo Diddley, Minimalism, and psychedelic transnational blues from West Africa to Southeast Asia.
Tom and Joshua are founding members of Rose Mansion Analog, China’s first all-analog record label. They have collaborated with Silver Apples, Dirty Beaches, Tonstartssbandht, Forests and have released music on their own label as well as Night People, Genjing Records, Moniker Records and Maybe Mars.