The artwork for ‘(Music Inspired by The Film) Beijing Spring’ has been created by the great Ma Desheng himself. Collaborations with visuals artists will also be at its core. It will endeavour to discover and nurture new talent, and champion the obscure and exciting, from around the world. Under the Crosstown Rebels label umbrella, Secret Teachings also shares the same mission. Secret Teachings explores music from the outer reaches, often far from the clamour of the dancefloor. This soundtrack also serves as the first release on the new Crosstown Rebels sister label Secret Teachings. The result is a dense, fascinating album and a worthy partner release to this relevant and pertinent documentary film. After these intense recording sessions, it was back to Damian’s studio in Italy to edit, compile and complete, before the whole album was mixed by the Grammy nominated Bruno Ellingham. Each musician experimenting around the same tonal scale, while Damian’s friend Millane contributed vocals. Within two days of the meeting, Damian was recording musicians playing ancient Chinese musical instruments in a recording studio in Bali. This chance meeting led to a commission to embellish the existing more traditional soundtrack with a modern take, something more experimental. Hidden for decades, footage from these brave acts of rebellion are now featured in AC Films’ ‘Beijing Spring’ for the first time.ĭamian Lazarus first met Andy Cohen in a nightclub in Geneva. This course is an absolute gem, since you can sit side by side with him in the studio and learn a complete workflow. Recording it all is a daring young filmmaker named Chi Xiaoning. In his first ever masterclass he walks you through his remix for Diplo, Damian Lazarus & Jungle, shows all original stems in detail and lets you in on all his production secrets for remixing and producing in general. The authorities, provoked by the demonstrations and threatened by the foreign media attention, close down 'Democracy Wall' and force most of the Stars group into exile. This soundtrack album is also the first release on the new Secret Teachings record label.įocusing on a group of artists called the Stars (founded by Ma Desheng and Huang Rui, and including Ai Weiwei and others), this documentary film chronicles the struggle for free speech and free artistic expression, in the People’s Republic of China during a brief period of political reform during the late 1970s, known as the Beijing Spring.Īfter the police forcefully shut down the Stars’ confrontational art show hung on a park fence, and arrest activist Wei Jingsheng for posting an essay on the 'Democracy Wall' critical of the Party, thousands of citizens take to the streets near Tiananmen Square, marching in protest and demanding the right to free speech – the first such demonstration since the Communists seized power. Damian Lazarus has produced a new soundtrack for this acclaimed documentary – an exclusive presentation of music taken from, and inspired by the critically acclaimed film. ‘Beijing Spring’ is a documentary film that is written, produced and directed by Andy Cohen and co-directed by Gaylen Ross.
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