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Hu Die, or Butterfly, was among old Shanghai’s foremost female icons. In the cultural melee of the 1930s and 40s, when Shanghai was dubbed Paris of the East; Butterfly was the first Chinese actress to win international fame, she was very much entangled in the intrigues of old Shanghai, and was the mistress of the Chinese Nationalist Party intelligence mastermind Dai Li. It was in evocation of Butterfly that Shanghainese band Crystal Butterfly selected their name. The band concedes that the connotations initially appear more feminine and delicate than might be appropriate for three twenty-something guys. They insist, however, that their fellow Shanghainese understand the reference to Butterfly’s glamour and mystery, as well as to an era when creativity flourished in the midst of chaos and corruption.
Formed in June 1998, members singer/bass/rhythm guitar Li Pang (aka Pangpang), guitarist Wang Wenwei, and drummer Chen Song were members of another band Lunar Eclipse but the band’s history stretches even further back. About twelve years ago, guitarist Wang Wenwei and bass player and vocalist Pang-pang attended the same middle school. A shared interest in music and Kung Fu movies brought the two lads together then, swapping tapes of foreign bands and buying their first guitars. They said back then that they would someday pursue their dreams and form a band together, and the two friends see their current status as a natural, inevitable progression.
Their strongest influences are British groups like Suede, the Clash, and the Velvet Underground, which is evident in the dramatic, New Age feel of their slower songs. Wang Wenwei’s guitar, while not Shanghai’s most technically precise, has a creative ingenuity that has defined the band’s style. Strong, haunting, and giving a slight feeling of being underwater, the band describes their music as beautiful, ornate, and multifaceted. “Our slow songs are serious, and make the listener feel high” says Pang-pang of pieces such as “Like an Apparition” and “Forest of Illusions”.
