Hi Sino Hearts Can you introduce yourselves and your music, what’s new since the last time you played a « Beijing Underground » event ?
I think last year we played at Yue Space
上次这个主题演出是去年在乐空间
Where did your name Sino Heart come from ? I think I didn’t ask last time….
I wanted to have a name which related to something chinese for an european group.because we were a viennese band before.
当时想找个有中国元素的名字，因为那会儿还是欧洲乐队。
What’s your favorite music to listen to these days ? What was your favorite album in 2018 so far ?
Recently I bought lots of records,including some compilations of us 60s lost garage/beat bands and my favourite album so far is <Evil Spirits> by The Damned
最近买了不少六十年代美国车库音乐的唱片，没人听那种。今年最喜欢的是THE DAMNED的新专辑<Evil Spirits>
Are you planning to record an album in 2018 with any of your musical projects ?
We finished our full length album<Leave the World Behind>on Jan and it was recorded in Beijing and produced in Germany,recently it will be released via Monster Zero Records/Bigmic Records in Europe,via Waterslide Records/Target Earth Records in Japan,via RubyEyes Records/D.O.G in PR.C
今年我们将在欧洲日本和中国一起推出我们的新专辑《把世界抛在脑后》，欧洲LP将由Monster Zero Records/Bigmic Records 联合发行,日本版CD将有 Waterslide Records/Target Earth Records 中国大陆将有D.O.G发行
Zhong Wuli, you stayed a while in Austria, I saw a video of you playing somewhere in Vienna a few years ago, what was it like to play rock n’roll as someone from mainland China in that environment ? What di you like/dislike about the experience ?
Well I’m straight from austrian punk rock scene and I went there when I was teenager and started music career with Frankenstyle(77 punk band from vienna) at the beginning,but somehow I’m mandarin native speaker too,so we did a china tour in 2011 crossed 18 cities and It’s the first time for us to really getting involved to chinese music scene.
I’m never selling those Chinese Identities to European because the real audience won’t buy it anyway,the real deal is how good your music is.Through speaking fluent german and viennese,my european friends normally won’t relate me to mainland china.Being asian face in europe music scene is very dope ,cuz you are the only one.haha
The experience I like about european scene is their cultural tradition,I have number of elder friends who were the first wave of 60s garage or 77 punk movements in the uk,germany,austria and our generation isn’t like much different than them.You could dig everthing on your own and every genre of music has its own system which never exists in china so far.china is everything just chaotic.
What I dislike europe is the media,what they report are always very negative about china and being chinese abroad is so awkward all the time,but I totally understood it too,cuz the real social conflicts don’t exist so brutally in the countries like austria or switzerland.
因为出去的比较早，其实玩音乐是直接跟着欧洲节奏开始的，当时2011年跟当时在维也纳的朋克乐队FRANKENSTYLE中国巡演了18站才开始跟国内音乐人有接触，但是我从来没有因为本身中国人而在欧洲打上那些所谓文化旗号，因为根本没人看中这些，一切都是欧美标准要求音乐，而通中文以及德文其实又是一种加分，因为又多了两个世界的选择。
The interesting fact is that there are lots of very young audience when you play in beijing,there is fresh energy amoung them.In europe,the audience sometimes could be elder,but normally the european audience really understood the music background and much easier to communicate with.
The Passion and Wildness at rock shows is the same thing,I don’t see much different between china and any other countries.
北京总体来说还是很年轻的观众，而西方更多是各个年龄段的都有。摇滚乐本来也就是青年人的东西，所以开心就好，没什么中西方比较的
What’s your favorite Chinese band/artist/song you would like to introduce to the rest of the world ?
Cosmic Project is a chinese group I recently dig and musically they are quite bizarr but creative.
最近发现了Cosmic Project，很不错，很有想法的乐队，看了他们西雅图KEXP电台的录像感觉很东方。
