A song from Chengdu revived a closed-down pub.

As the last throat singing faded away, the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) also produced a long, drawn-out final note.

The grassland returned to tranquility under the setting sun.

The chat in the live stream also went silent for a brief moment.

It's not that the audience didn't know what to say.

Rather, the impact of this song was so strong that many people were not fully able to process it for a while.

This style of song is something many people are hearing for the first time.

They couldn't understand Mongolian, nor did they know about throat singing and long song, let alone explain why the combination of the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) and rock instruments produced such a stunning effect.

But when the drumbeats sounded, and the deep throat singing came from the depths of the earth, the restlessness that seemed to originate from the depths of the blood still gave countless people goosebumps.

After a brief silence, the comments section erupted.

"Holy crap! I can't say anything else right now except those two words!"

"I can't understand a single word of Mongolian, so why does it give me the creeps?"

"My brain didn't understand, but my body did!"

"As soon as the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) started playing, I felt like a whole grassland suddenly appeared before my eyes!"

"When the throat singing came on, I didn't even dare to breathe too loudly; the sound was just too powerful!"

"Can anyone tell me what style this is? Rock? Folk? Or grassland music?"

"Where did the Hanggai Band even come from? To pull off such a big show for their very first public performance?"

"Su Fan didn't write a propaganda song for Inner Mongolia; he made the grasslands sing a song with their own voices."

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Comments are being refreshed at an astonishing rate.

Compared to ordinary listeners who are simply moved by the songs, those who are actually in the music industry are more deeply affected.

Ordinary viewers may only feel that it sounds good, is vast, and is shocking.

But professional musicians can understand it and comprehend it.

They can distinguish the roles played by the morin khuur, long song, throat singing, and modern musical instruments.

They also understand just how difficult it is to truly integrate these musical elements.

That's why many people were still in a daze for a long time after the song ended.

Beijing Conservatory of Music.

Professor Liang Henian of the Department of Ethnic Music sat in front of his computer, staring at the now calm live broadcast screen, without moving for a long time.

He is over seventy years old this year and has been studying ethnic music for nearly fifty years.

To be honest, he initially thought Su Fan's music was indeed of a very high standard, better than that of most musicians.

But only there.

In recent years, there have been quite a few works that claim to be ethnic music.

However, most works simply add a few ethnic musical instruments to pop songs or insert a short folk song into the arrangement, and then dare to call themselves innovative fusion.

In Liang Henian's view, that was not integration, but merely decoration.

But Reincarnation is completely different.

Liang Henian took off his reading glasses, wiped the lenses, and put them back on.

He then clicked on the replay and played the entire song from the beginning.

Halfway through, he went back to the prelude and listened repeatedly to the entry points of the morin khuur, throat singing, and modern instruments.

A student standing nearby couldn't help but ask, "Teacher, is there something wrong with this song?"

Liang Henian stared at the screen, shaking his head with a complicated expression: "It's not that there's a problem, it's that it's handled too well. The morin khuur (horsehead fiddle) wasn't treated as an embellishment, the throat singing wasn't for novelty, and even the long song in the middle serves to connect the emotions before and after. If you remove any part, the song will become incomplete."

The student was somewhat surprised: "You rate it so highly?"

After a moment of silence, Liang Henian slowly said, "They didn't just stuff grassland music into rock; instead, they first figured out why grassland music is sung this way, and then grew a modern arrangement from its own roots."

After he finished speaking, he pulled the progress bar back to the beginning.

This is the third time he has played "Reincarnation".

Meanwhile, Du Jianfeng, a well-known rock producer in China, was also sitting in his recording studio.

After finishing "Reincarnation," he didn't immediately comment like ordinary audience members would. Instead, he put on his monitoring headphones and played the song again.

He focused on listening to the parts featuring modern instruments.

After hearing it for the first time, Du Jianfeng frowned and remained silent.

Upon hearing the chorus for the second time, he took off his headphones and immediately called over everyone else in the recording studio.

Once everyone had arrived, he said only one sentence: "Don't speak, just listen."

A few minutes later, the song ended again.

The recording studio remained quiet.

A young producer spoke first: "Ethnic rock?"

Du Jianfeng shook his head: "Don't rush to label it. Listen carefully to the drums and bass. They never overpowered the morin khuur and vocals from beginning to end. When the electric guitar should have been at its most powerful, it always held back. It's not that they couldn't make the sound fuller, but that they knew where to stop."

Another person asked, "Is this difficult?"

Du Jianfeng glanced at him: "It's easy to pile up all the sounds, but knowing when not to make a sound is the hardest part of arranging music."

As he said this, he looked back at the production credits on the screen.

Arrangement: Su Fan, Hanggai Band, Jiang Yi, Lao Han, Xiao Pang...

Du Jianfeng's gaze lingered on the four characters "Hanggai Band," and his expression gradually became serious.

This newly formed band, which hadn't even released a single official work, presented "Reincarnation" as their first appearance before the public.

What others see may just be a stunning live stream.

In his view, however, there may already be a band in the domestic music scene that is capable of changing the landscape of the ethnic music market.

Similar scenes are happening in many other places.

Some veteran artists who have studied ethnic music for many years played the songs over and over again.

The music academy teachers began to analyze the structure of "Reincarnation".

The record company's producers immediately inquired about the Hanggai Band.

To put it bluntly, these people are completely stunned by "Reincarnation".

Because they understand it better than the average viewer.

The scariest thing about this song isn't that it combines the morin khuur (horsehead fiddle), throat singing, and rock music.

Rather, it makes all listeners feel that these voices were meant to be together.

On the other side, Mongolian long-song artist Uenqi also watched the entire live broadcast.

Unlike most viewers, he could understand every word Agula sang in Mongolian without needing to look at the Chinese translations at the bottom of the screen.

That's why he understands the difficulty of this song better than others.

The pronunciation of Mandarin lyrics is completely different from that of Mongolian.

If we simply translate word for word, not only will the syllables fail to correspond to the melody, but the original artistic conception will also be completely destroyed.

However, the Mongolian lyrics of "Reincarnation" are clearly not a simple translation.

It retains the original theme and imagery, and readjusts the sentence length and stress according to the Mongolian pronunciation.

Especially the positions of several long notes, which almost naturally match the melody.

After hearing the last sentence, Wu Enqi leaned back in his chair and let out a long breath.

The assistant beside him asked in a low voice, "Teacher Wu, what did you think of their singing?"

Uenqi did not answer immediately, but remained silent for a while before sighing, "There are still some details in the pronunciation that can be polished, but they have found the most important thing. This song is not a pop song disguised as a Mongolian song. Its breathing, rhythm and emotion truly belong to the grassland."

The assistant nodded: "I heard that Su Fan wrote both the lyrics and the music for this song."

Uenqi turned to look at him, her tone tinged with disbelief: "He not only knows how to arrange music, but he's also studied the pronunciation of Mongolian songs?"

"It wasn't mentioned on the show."

Uenqi looked back at the screen, and after a long while, he sighed softly, "Just how much does this young man actually know? Could you help me arrange a meeting with him?"

The assistant said, "I'll arrange it."