2011年4月15日优酷娱乐播报：Keane乐队“忙里偷闲”专赴音乐厅赏民乐 贝斯手玩性大发当场学琵琶

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首次现身内地的英国著名乐队Keane(基因乐队)在4月14号下午，专程来到中央民族音乐厅，欣赏古老而美妙的中国民乐。看着台上的演奏，几人不时发出赞叹。在排练休息的时候，Keane饶有兴趣的上台与乐队成员交流。热情的队员为他们演奏了几首风格迥异的民乐，Keane在仔细倾听的时候还随着拍子打节奏，看来中国的民族音乐对他们很是吸引。

形状独特的民族乐器勾起了Keane的兴趣，听完演奏队员的解说后，贝斯手竟然拿过琵琶亲自上阵，打算与乐队合奏一曲。一转头又看见二胡，非让队员拉上一首，不知道听得如痴如醉的Keane会不会在回到英国后，把中国的民乐元素融进自己的音乐里，让中西音乐碰撞出精彩的火花。

2011年4月21日环球音乐国际部日记：Keane在北京——愉快的一周

Keane in Beijing – An Amazing Week with Keane
2011-04-21 15:01:07
来源：http://site.douban.com/widget/notes/2279574/note/146674836/

Dear all,
It is our great honor to have talented band Keane in town for their 2 shows and promos in Beijing last week. Here’s the full story:
Keane arrived in Beijing, China on the afternoon April 11th, Monday to start their first visit ever to China. On April 12th, the band went to Great Wall to shoot Burberry Acoustic Session. (Burberry Acoustic Session is the special campaign from the brand for this year. The brand invited young bands all over UK to record the acoustic versions of their singles. They want to build a much younger and cooler brand image through this campaign.) They recorded “Somewhere Only We Know” for this session. The video is streamed on Burberry.com and Youku.com.

On April 13th, the band did an amazing mini-concert for Burberry event in Beijing. Near 800 celebrities and guests showed up at the event. Keane totally lit up the venue. Almost everyone sang along with the artists. The concert was live-streamed by Burberry.com and their other video website partners. It’s also live-streamed by their ‘Burberry Retail Theater’ system to over 50 retail stores all over the world. It’s probably the most exciting fashion brand event of the year so far.

After an exciting night with fans, arranged by UM China, the 3 band members from Keane went to visit National Traditional Orchestra of China on the after of April 14. As contemporary western musicians, the band members also very interested in traditional Chinese music and instruments. They watched the rehearsal, interacted with China musicians. The musicians from NTOC played a short jam session for Keane and introduced traditional Chinese instruments to them. All the band members were really fascinated by beautiful traditional Chinese music.

At night, Universal Music China took the whole tour party to dinner at a traditional Chinese restaurant. During the dinner, the band met Sa Dingding, our Chinese artist from Universal China. They talked about a lot of things on music, including the possibility of collaboration in the future. After the dinner, they toured Nan Luo Gu Xiang, an old Beijing Hutong (alley).

The band took a day-off on April 15th. On the afternoon of April 16th, the band went to HitFM, the host of their send showcase in Beijing for a two-hour promo session. This promo session includes: photo call, group interview, 1-on-1 interview and 30-minute live radio show. 15 media attended at the press junket.

After the press junket at Hit FM, the band went to the venue of Hit FM 8th Anniversary showcase venue. Before the show, they met the winners of Keane Album Artwork Design Campaign on Douban.com. This event was held by Universal Music China International Department on Douban.com. Douban group for Keane is the biggest online Keane fan base in China. This campaign encouraged the fans to recommend album cover artworks for Keane. The winners would get the access to the showcase. Top 3 winners could meet the band face to face at the backstage. This campaign got 400+ uploads within 3 weeks.

9:30 pm April 16th, Keane played on Hit FM 8th Anniversary Showcase. 1500+ fans showed up. And the venue was totally packed. Both the artist and fans enjoyed the show a lot. All the audience were looking forward to see them again in China. Before the event, over 7000 fans send application text to Hit FM for the tickets. 200 CDs are sold out on site.

[译]2008年官网的乐队背景资料

Tom Chaplin，负责主唱及其他，生于Hastings, 1979年3年8日
Tim Rice-Oxley (Timothy James Rice-Oxley)，负责钢琴及其他，生于Oxford, 1976年6月2日
Richard Hughes (Richard David Hughes)，负责打鼓及其他，生于Gravesent, Kent，1975年9月8日

Keane回来了。《Hopes And Fears》（2004）和《Under The Iron Sea》（2006）一共超过八百万的销售量，座无虚席的巡演，从Ivor Novellos到全英音乐奖的获奖，再加上一系列诸如《Is It Any Wonder?》《Everybody’s Changing》《Crystal Ball》和《Somewhere Only We Know》的经典热门曲目，经历过这些后，英国其中一支最让人喜欢的乐队将再一次给人们带来惊喜和刺激。

Tom Chaplin、Tim Rice-Oxley和Richard Hughes，三个自称坚持不再重耍旧技的队友，带来了《Perfect Symmetry》，这张充满了色彩斑斓的流行歌曲，和充沛纯粹的新鲜活力的新专辑。在这些充满活力的合唱中，可以感受到专辑的乐趣所在。跟以钢琴为主打 的经典首发《Hopes And Fears》与更加黑暗的《Under The Iron Sea》的截然不同一般，《Perfect Symmetry》与它们的截然不同让我们看到了一个在他们精力顶峰的Keane。这张专辑确定了Rice-Oxley在这个时代作为英国最优秀的作曲人 之一的地位，更见证了Keane抛弃所有过去的伎俩，完完全全跟着音乐来到它所需要的领域，从而造就了这张大胆创新的专辑，让人们听到它时也能感受到创作 时的乐趣。

Keane数百万的忠实歌迷会立刻发现《Perfect Symmetry》是一部只有Keane能完成的作品，而另一些可能会被他们所跨进的意想不到的领域吓跑了。的确，听过新专辑的开胃菜 《Spiralling》后，你也许根本没认出这是创作出《Somewhere Only We Know》的乐队的作品。的确，《Perfect Symmetry》是Keane第一张采用了音乐锯、萨克斯和透过一只鼓唱出歌来的专辑。专辑的录音过程在柏林、巴黎和伦敦进行。这也是他们第一张自主制 作的专辑，同时还获得知名制作人Jon Brion（与Rufus Wainwright和Kanye West合作过）和Stuart Price（与Madonna和Les Rhythmes Digitales合作过）的协助。三个男人一声欣喜的“喔!”便是你在专辑听到的第一个声音。

“我们总是说我们想挑战自己。”，Hughes说，“很多乐队，他们在发行一张专辑时，总是说他们挑战过自己了。但我们这些乐迷坐下来，一边读着这些话，一边想‘太棒了，我迫不及待想听它！’，然后你放这张碟来听，却想‘不对，等一下……’”

“我们的唱片公司恨不得我们做三张《Hopes And Fears》出来。”，他继续说道，“但我们已经做了一张了，一张就够了。”

“我觉得这绝对是我们做过的最好的音乐。”，Chaplin说，“我很期待人们能听到它。”

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2008年官网的乐队背景资料

Keane are back. After over 8 million sales of Hopes And Fears (2004) and Under The Iron Sea (2006) combined, sold-out arena tours, awards spanning Ivor Novellos to BRITs, plus an undeniable collection of hits including Is It Any Wonder?, Everybody’s Changing, Crystal Ball and Somewhere Only We Know, one of Britain’s best-loved bands are about to surprise and thrill all over again.

Avowed believers in never retreading old ground, Tom Chaplin, Tim Rice-Oxley and Richard Hughes return with Perfect Symmetry, a Technicolor explosion of stellar pop songs and pure, unashamed energy; the joy in which is audible in every finger-click and life-affirming chorus. As different as piano-helmed classic debut Hopes And Fears was from its darker cousin Under The Iron Sea, Perfect Symmetry finds Keane at the height of their powers. Confirming Rice-Oxley’s position as one of the finest British songwriters to emerge this decade, the 11-song set sees Keane throwing any last vestiges of caution to the wind and simply letting the music take them where it will. The result is a thrillingly bold album that’s as pleasurable to listen to as it was to make.

While millions of paid-up Keane fans will immediately recognise Perfect Symmetry as a body of work that could have come from no other group, others are likely to be knocked sideways by their various leaps into uncharted territory. Indeed, after hearing download-record-breaking first taste Spiralling, it’s possible you might not have even recognised it the work of “the Somewhere Only We Know band”. Certainly, Perfect Symmetry is the first Keane album to feature musical saw, saxophone, vocals recorded through a drum; studio sessions in Berlin, Paris and London; their first self produced album, with input from esteemed producers Jon Brion (Rufus Wainwright; Kanye West) and Stuart Price (Madonna; Les Rhythmes Digitales) and the sound of three men yelping a delighted ‘Oooh!’ as virtually the first thing you hear.

“We’ve always said we want to challenge ourselves,” says Hughes. “Most bands, when they release an album, always say they’ve pushed themselves. But we’re all music lovers and we sit there and read these things and think ‘Great, can’t wait to hear it!’ and then you put it on and you think ‘Oh. Hang on a minute…’”

“There’s nothing that our record company would have loved more than for us to have delivered Hopes And Fears three times,” he continues. “But we’ve already done one, and one’s enough.”

“I think by a million miles it’s the best thing we’ve put together,” says Chaplin. “I can’t wait for people to hear it.”

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2010年2月Billboard报道:Keane五月搭上《Night Train》

Keane Boarding the ‘Night Train’ This May

http://www.billboard.com/news/keane-boarding-the-night-train-this-may-1004071403.story#/news/keane-boarding-the-night-train-this-may-1004071403.story

by Michael D. Ayers, N.Y. | Feb 26, 2010 11:28 EST

British rock act Keane is set to return this spring with its fourth album, “Night Train.” Due May 11 via Cherrytree/Interscope, the set contains only 8 songs, but features collaborations with rapper K’Naan, Japanese MC Tigarah and a rare lead vocal performance from Keane keyboard player Tim Rice-Oxley.

“Night Train’s” title and material was born out of Keane’s world tour for 2008′s “Perfect Symmetry,” of which the band’sfavorite method of travel became taking trains between gigs. “The idea was to chuck out a single, or at most an EP in October,” Keane vocalist Tom Chaplin tells Billboard.com. “But it turned into something more. I think we see it as a body of work that we made during touring. Just a document of different places and moods.”

Chaplin says that the tunes on “Night Train” were written out on the road during the “Perfect Symmetry” tour and recorded at various studios around the globe, depending on where they were at the moment. “I think most bands feel like this, but out on the road, it can be a desolate place at times. A sense of not being that creative. And this is a bit more spontaneous. We’ve always felt that everything must be just so. And you can drive yourself loopy if you dissect every part you’re doing.”

Alongside Coldplay and Radiohead, Keane has become one of Britain’s best exports over the last several years . According to Nielsen SoundScan, “Perfect Symmetry” sold 135,000. But those numbers pale in comparison to 2006′s “Under the Iron Sea,” which has sold 392,000, and the band’s 2004 debut, “Hopes and Fears,” which has sold 1,000,000.

“Maybe it was a step too far for some people as far as what they expect from Keane,” Chaplin says of “Perfect Symmetry’”s sales. “It doesn’t bother us too much. In a way, it makes us hungrier. You realize you only get one chance in a band. Using the same tricks is a boring idea. We really want to keep moving.”

Although nothing is on the books at the moment, Chaplin has high hopes that Keane will return stateside this summer for a tour.

Here is the track list for “Night Train”:

“House Lights”
“Back in Time”
“Stop For a Minute” (featuring K’Naan)
“Clear Skies”
“Ishin Dengshin (You’ve Got To Help Yourself)” (Featuring Tigarah)
“Your Love”
“Looking Back” (Featuring K’Naan)
“My Shadow”