距离MOJOHAND上张专辑《MOJOHAND》发行已两年有余，乐队的第三张专辑《MOJO Working...蓝调进行时...》终于要在4月16日于北京正式发布，我们已迫不及待想要回归蓝调之路，和沿途的每一位蓝友分享近三年来我们音乐的积累以及对BLUES有增无减的热爱！历经无序无奈的2022，相信你们也有许多所想所愿，欢迎各位来现场与我们相见，一起歌唱！一起跳舞！一起BLUES！与上张原创中文专辑不同，这一次我们延续了MOJOHAND首张专辑《黑蓝作坊》的制作理念，Cover了BLUES历史上流传和影响最深远的十二首经典作品，虽然因为疫情对时间和成本的影响，这并不是我们最初设计的容纳二十四首作品的双唱片，但我们全身心投入后最后得到的这十二个录音的结果多少可以给自己一些安慰，也希望在我们规划的未来乐队的第四张专辑(原创)之后能为蓝友们奉上一套经典BLUES翻唱的双唱片，补上这次的遗憾！
在布鲁斯和爵士乐的历史中，Cover一直就是许多歌手和乐队的日常，他们不间断的从中获取养料，同时也提醒听众要对这些给予我们救赎和力量的现代音乐的源头足够的尊重，许多经典的Cover专辑也在这些歌手和乐队的音乐生涯中占据重要地位！比如Eric Clapton《From the Cradle》&《Me and Mr. Johnson》；The Rolling Stones《Blue & Lonesome》;Jimi HENDrix《Blues》；Gary Moore《Blues and Beyond》；Joe Bonamassa《Muddy Wolf At Red Rocks(Live)》以及我们的老朋友Billy Branch的《Roots And Branches－The Songs Of Little Walter》等等...
MOJOHAND的新专辑中收录的十二首曲目来自蓝调的不同历史时期，各具特点，录音前我们查阅大量资料，对这十二首歌的词曲创作者、不同翻唱版本等等相关信息做了一次梳理，帮助我们自身对这些音乐的内容和产生背景有更深入了解，最终这些理解又重新体现在对这些作品的改编之中，实可谓在BLUES的故事里Turn a round！相信大家之后在听歌过程中能感受到！专辑的封套设计，我们融入了与根源BLUES关系紧密的植物象征－棉花，也借此更明确的表述这张唱片的致敬理念，而我们还把致敬的12位对象尽数放进了巡演海报！《MOJO Working...蓝调进行时...》封面设计师：八井从MOJOHAND乐队成员的角度来说，这张耗时两年半的《MOJO Working...蓝调进行时...》绝对是一张充满诚意的唱片，2023年，也理应成为我们为音乐为BLUES庆祝的时刻！咱们首发现场见！巡演路上见！MOJOHAND 2023新专辑巡演 温州站5.12 温州 意空间 Meaning Spacecheck it out on ⬇️
MOJOHAND, as Chinese Blues pioneer and the highest level of Blues musicians in China, founded by bassist Wang Zheng and guitarist Wei Wei in the year of 2014 in Beijing, who has been visiting the Chicago and Mississippi coasts in the United States for Blues rooting. Convinced that Blues is the source of all modern music, MOJOHAND’s making the repertoire across the entire American Blues history, from Robert Johnson in Mississippi to Muddy Waters in Chicago; from Tennessee's Albert King to Texas's Stevie Ray Vaughan. Deeply rooted in the traditional Blues, at the same time MOJOHAND also relentlessly creates new Chinese Blues, actively organized and participated in various types of Blues concerts and music festivals and toured throughout the country, 2018/01/28 MOJOHAND invited by Blue Note Beijing (the world famous jazz club) and did very successful performance there, MOJOHAND’s debut album <Dark Blues House> was released on 12/29/2018 at “Music Space Beijing”. Been together for three years, MOJOHAND has worked closely with many famous Blues musicians at home and abroad, including: Chinese Blues legENDary singer - Hang Tian; Japanese Blues guitarist from Chicago - Shun Kikuta; The king player of Blues harmonica from Japan - Kotez; American Blues musician - Matthew Skoller and Big Walker ......2018 just start, MOJOHAND as a warm-up band, along with the legENDary “Three Grammy Award Nomination”American Chicago Blues Master Billy Branch and his band leader - has been assigned to “Chicago Blues Hall Of Fame”Japanese blues piano master Sumito Ariyo Ariyoshi , took “Billy’sFirst Tour in CHINA” From Beijing to Shanghai to Tianjin and Hangzhou …… They made seven wonderful show in the harvest of high praise, but also made great contributions to the dissemination and promotion of the blues music in the China!
