Li Zongsheng recommends:
"Listeners like Ma Shifang who are dedicated and professional make the efforts and contributions of Chinese music workers valuable and dignified."
He can reveal the true nature of musicians. Luo Dayou said that wearing sunglasses is not for being cool; Li Zongsheng: Writing songs does not rely on inspiration.
He walked all the way from Wild Lily to Sunflower, and also walked into the scene of Chen Sheng and Wu Bai's first collaboration.
He went deep into the times through music, writing about forgotten and blocked but still beautiful sounds of all sizes.
Cover design by AGI Alliance's first Taiwanese designer Nie Yongzhen x illustration by mainland China's famous visual designer Wei Zi
"A song can be a prophecy of enlightenment, a record can be a cultural event; a musician can be not only an artist, but also a revolutionary and thinker." - Ma Shifang
From the banned song "Formosa" during the Sunflower Student Movement, the "Rolling Stone 30" concerts with different scenery on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the "little fresh" trend that originated in the 1970s, to independent bands, and the democracy movement songs such as "Island Skylight" that sprouted like bamboo shoots in spring... In one era, all these worlds that expanded from "sounds" into countless colorful echoes were recorded by the ears of senior music critic Ma Shifang and collected in the text fortress "Lend Me Your Ears".
Lend Me Your Ears is a collection of more than 30 articles written by Ma Shifang in the Taiwan and Hong Kong column since 2011. Volume 1 starts with the People's Movement and analyzes the voice of the times with a solid mindset; Volume 2 talks about how Taiwanese musicians have radiated an unprecedented musical prosperity to the world over the past few decades; Volume 3 traces back to the collective memory of a generation: Olive Tree, limited edition records, cassette A and B sides...; Volume 4 returns to the author's personal fan record: "That night, they were the greatest rock band on earth."
From the enlightenment materials broadcast one by one in the nameless music room to the underground classics memorized and copied by young people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, in this text fortress of "hearing the big voice to see the subtle, and knowing the big from the small voice", we can once again pay attention to those simple things that support all the details of this era through a monologue, a record, a cassette, or even a conversation at a certain time and place. The author Ma Shifang's rich knowledge of music history and refined literary talent blend together, and the gentleness makes people stay satisfied, and the excitement awakens the silent heart, making people can't help but follow him into his world and open their ears - Lend me your ears. Please lend him your ears, let him lead you to listen to those beautiful and familiar songs again...