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| Intro |
| Never really had a habit in keeping too many tracks of what I've been doing. |
| I mean, keeping up with the Synth sections of this web is already quite time consuming. But since the web is up, and I have all these space, I was gonna slowly re-write and build up my portfo / show-reel, but well, that's probably gonna take quite some time. |
| But I suppose if I start writing up stuff I've been doing, it'll help to complete this portfo/show-reel thing, at least I won't need to do the later catching up's. |
| So for the moment, these pages will include some info on the songs / arrangements / remixes / productions / projects that I have worked on during the year 2007. |
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2007 marks a new year for me. After Eason Chan's "What's Going On...?" album, |
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I'm pretty much back in Hong Kong for the time being. |
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Not only that I have to move houses in Hong Kong, |
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I also joined an international record company and started helping out. |
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Well... I'll probably be in H.K. for a while now... |
| 2007/04 | |
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Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 CD Title: Admit It 認了吧 Label: Cinepoly Records / Universal Music, Hong Kong |
| Tracks: 01 煙味 Smell of Cigarettes 02 淘汰 Elimination 03 快樂男生 Super Boys 04 紅玫瑰 Red Rose 05 月黑風高 Darkness in the Night 06 愛情轉移 Call for Love 07 好久不見 Long Time No See 08 愛是一本書 Way I Do 4 U 09 第一個雅皮士 The First Yuppie 10 白色球鞋 White Trainers |
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| Overall Comments: |
| Eason's MANDARIN album, released around end of April 2007. |
| Originally we planned to
have the same 10 songs from the Cantonese "What's
Going On...?" album, but releasing also 10 Mandarin versions, but
on the same album. In the end, due to time/timing, the mandarin part wasn't finished and release date was postponed to April 2007. |
| Only "Call for Love" was recorded in early December 2006. Then Eason was shooting a movie til end of February, so recording resumed in March. 2 songs were dropped, replaced by 2 brand new songs. Simply because, we didn't get any lyrics by mid March, and our Beijing colleagues suggested that we needed 2 more new songs which can really help promote Eason in China. |
| Other than that, 2 other
songs got new arrangement treatments (see below). At the end of the day, everyone's pretty happy as the album did sell pretty well in China. |
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01. 煙味 Smell Of Cigarettes |
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Original Working Title: Alex San Hop Hop Mandarin |
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Music
曲 &
Arrangement 編: Alex San | Lyrics
詞: Vincent Fang 方文山 |
| Produced by: Davy Chan / C.Y.
/ Eason Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Programming: Alex San Additional Programming: Davy Chan & C.Y. Drums: Davy Chan Keyboards: Alex San "n" Bjork Chong Bass : Kelly (Playroom) Guitar: Haji (Playroom) Strings: 陳珀 & 廣州交響樂團 arranged & Conducted by Pak Chan 陳珀 |
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Recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version of 裙下之臣 (Don't We All Love Dresses) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
| The original title that
Vincent Fang 方文山 was called "頹廢" -
as in the lyrics in the choruses. But we had to change the name as it
would not pass the 審批 in China - i.e. they would not give permission for
the song to be published/released as it contains either sensitive song
title or lyrics, as judged by the Chinese authorities. Note: The Cantonese version, also did not pass this, and that's the reason why it did not appear on the china version of the What's Going On...? CD. |
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02. 淘汰 Elimination |
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Original Working Title: E-Jay |
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Music
曲: Jay Chau
周杰倫 |
Lyrics 詞:
Jay Chau 周杰倫 |
Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
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Produced
by Davy Chan / C.Y. / Eason |
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Recorded at aroom studio
& seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
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As we didn't get mandarin
lyrics for 2 songs, we needed new songs for the Mandarin album. |
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Jay's demo was very Jay style - we wanted to keep part of that but yet retain Eason's bandsound style. The demo I first did, I had Verse1 going into Chorus, then Verse2 appears afterwards. However, Jay was very specific and asked us to retain his original structure - Verse1, followed by Verse 2 then Chorus. |
| We took quite a long time recording the vocals, as Eason wanted this to be very good, and in the beginning, he thought he was following Jay's demo too much but yet he didn't want too much of that influence. On the last day for recording, he re-sang this again, and it was actually the last take that we used for the final vocals, in fact he was close to crying when he sang the last 2 takes. |
| Although being a very Jay Chau type song, with quite 80s style american pop ballad melodies, there's something in this song - either you get it or you don't. Even guitarist Ah Yin, usually he doesn't say a lot about songs he plays on, but he said there's something about this song, some feel or some emotions... |
| Pak Chan 陳珀's strings came back originally being very "Disney" style, a little bit too much on the fantasy side of things. But after another re-write, it was good and matched the emotions, especially after the breakdown section then the strings coming back creating the tension and climax for that uprising feeling. Thanks so much, 珀姐! |
| In a way, we're all very happy and proud to be able to work with Jay. Thank you Jay, for the nice song! Cheers! |
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Technical Note: Wanted to use the Yamaha CP-70 type Electric Piano sound for this song. The CP-70 sound used now is a mixture of the Grand Electrix VSTi and also some other VSTi samples. |
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| Arrangement Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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03. 快樂男生 Super Boys |
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Original Working Title: Broken |
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Music
曲:
C. Y. Kong |
Lyrics 詞:
易家揚 |
Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
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Produced by 梁榮駿 / C. Y. ,
Co-Produced by Davy Chan & Stanley Leung |
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Recorded at aroom studio
& seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter & C.Y. |
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| Comments: | |
| The 2nd "New" song on the mandarin album. This was one of the songs that Eason held from my demos, and our Beijing colleagues picked the song as it's a more medium-fast tempo song, that would help Eason in his performance during promoting the album. | |
| Actually I originally wrote the song back in Oct 2005. Eason always said it's very R'n'B but strange, since it's not that electronic. Well, in fact, i never intended this to be R'n'B, or maybe I wanted a bandsound-ish arrangement doing some r'n'b chords sequences. The original demo was done in female key. maybe i thought it might be a nice female sad song! Haha! | |
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Davy really helped spiced uup the rhythm part when doing the live drum
session. Then when Pal (Pal Sinn) came into play bass, I was saying, why
not let the bass stand out on this song. So Pal played quite a bit of
fill-ins and licks on the bass part which really got the song going. Then Ah Yin added guitars and everything kinda sounded quite nice together. |
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| Well, maybe in the end it sounded a bit like Maroon 5. I dunno. I guess it's just a mixture of pop/rock and a bit of funk and so on. Eason hasn't had this kind of medium/upbeat tempo kool-ish song for a while, and we're all glad that he really likes it : ) | |
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| Original Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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04. 紅玫瑰 Red Rose |
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Original Working Title: Love Song mandarin |
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Music
曲 &
Arrangement 編: Kubert Leung
梁翹柏 | Lyrics 詞: Francis Lee
李焯雄 |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version of the same song 白玫瑰 (White Rose) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
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05. 月黑風高 Darkness in the Night |
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Original Working Title: Cold Feet Mandarin |
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Music 曲 & Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 |
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| Produced by Alvin Leong
& C. Y. Co-produce/Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Synths, Cubase Programming & PC Manipulation: C.Y. Kong Drums : Davy Chan Bass : Sai Wai 細威 Guitar : Ah Yin 亞賢 (Yin Wong) Chorus : Patrick Lui Strings: 陳珀 & 廣州交響樂團 arranged & Conducted by Pak Chan 陳珀 |
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Recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter & C.Y. |
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| Comments: | |
| Mandarin version of the song 黑擇明 (Reaper Will Find You) as on "What's Going On...?" album. | |
| Lin Xi
林夕 first wrote mandarin lyrics titled 值得不值得
(Worth It or Not Worth It). Then Eason told Lin Xi a story about a taxi driver and Lin Xi turned the story in to the totally re-written lyrics for this song. |
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06. 愛情轉移 Call for Love |
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Original Working Title: Fuji Mandarin |
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Music 曲: Christopher Chak | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong + Pak Chan 陳珀 |
| Produced by Alvin Leong
Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Synths, Cubase Programming & PC Manipulation: C.Y. Kong Drums : Davy Chan Bass : Sai Wai 細威 Guitar : Joey Tang Percussion: Davy Chan & Kevin (Hardpack) Chorus : Patrick Lui Strings: 陳珀 & 廣州交響樂團 arranged & Conducted by Pak Chan 陳珀 |
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Recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin
version of the song 富士山下 (Sorrow is Meaningless) as on "What's
Going On...?" album. Aldo theme song to the China movie, "愛情呼叫轉移 Call for Love" |
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07. 好久不見 Long Time No See |
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Original Working Title: LTNC (Long Time No See) |
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Music
曲: Salsa Chen
陳小霞
| Lyrics: Lin Xi
林夕 | |
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Produced by Davy Chan /
C.Y. / Eason |
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Recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version of 不如不見 (Better Not to Meet) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
| 1st song recorded and also back in Sept 2006. It was also the song that Eason sang many many many times. (Must be like 200 takes or more!!) Emotions are difficult ; ) |
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08. 愛是一本書 Love Is Like a Book (Way I Do 4 U) |
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Original Working Title: Way I Do 4 U |
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Music
曲: Davy Chan |
Lyrics 詞: 易家揚 | Arrangement 編:
Hardpack |
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Produced
by Davy Chan / C.Y. / Eason |
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Recorded at aroom studio, engineered
by Davy Chan |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version to the song 心深傷透 (Deeply Hurt) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
| This has "New" arrangement, totally different to the Cantonese version. But in fact this was the original arrangement that Davy had and we spiced it up. |
| Yes, that was the original intention way back when we were doing the cantonese album. Eason wanted the arrangements to be totally different from each other. |
| Lyricist 易家揚 is actually very clever. The demo he got was Davy's original demo, which he sang "The way I do, I do for you" in the chorus. And the mandarin lyrics came back as 我們會來讀 愛 這本書 - and 會來讀 愛 sounds very close to "Way I Do, I" - so on some of the backing vocals, Eason actually sang "way i do"... |
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| Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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09. 第一個雅皮士 The First Yuppie |
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Original Working Title: Orange (Mandarin) |
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Music 曲: Kubert Leung 梁翹柏 | Lyrics 詞: Yiu-Fai Chow 周耀輝 | Arrangement 編: Ted Lo |
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Produced by Kubert Leung 梁翹柏 |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version of the song 最後的嬉皮士 (The Last Hippie) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
| This got a new spiced up jazz/big band arrangement. |
| One of the brass section players was actually musicians who came to Hong Kong and performed live at a jazz club. Apparently Ted Lo was there at the gig and asked the musician to play on the track! |
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10. 白色球鞋 White Sneakers |
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Original Working Title: Sunrise |
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Music 曲: C. Y. Kong / Eason Chan 陳奕迅 | Lyrics 詞: 姚謙 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
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Produced
by Davy Chan / C.Y. / Eason |
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Recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & Rob Porter & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Mandarin version to the song 粵語殘片 (Cantonese Old Movie) as on "What's Going On...?" album. |
| 2007/06 | |
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Artist: Candy Lo 盧巧音 CD Title: Process Label: Candy Lo / Wow Music, Hong Kong |
| Track: 04 愛到不能 Where Love Disappears |
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04. 愛到不能 Where Love Disappears |
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Original Working Title: Overload |
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Music
曲 &
Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics
詞: Jessie Yau 游思行 |
| Comments: |
| This was actually written around April 2006. In fact Candy recorded this in mid 2006, but waited until like April 2007 before plugging the song on radio. It did pretty well on the charts. |
| I could write a long story
about Candy Lo. I knew Candy years ago, when she was in Black & Blue. Then
after her first solo EP, I was supposed help her produced the following
album, but due to many reasons, I quitted. Well... my bad, but really, the
record company was to be blamed!! Candy wasn't happy (with me, heheh) and tho things were sorted out back then, we weren't keeping contact , tho we would still greet one another if we bumped into each other at different places. |
| Nearly 7 or 8 years later, while I was in London, we started emailing and finally she's kind of forgiven me ;P and asked me to write a song for her. I really felt that I owed her this for many years and basically I did this for her free, including the piano session played by Anthony Sun. |
| We're still keeping contact, and I guess I do like helping out this "Rock Chick Little Woman" : ) |
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| Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/06 | |
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Artist: Eric Suen 孫耀威 CD Title: So Far...So Close Label: Go East / Universal Music, Hong Kong |
| Track: 04 永遠保護你 Forever Protecting You 05 秒殺 Second Kill
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04. 永遠保護你 Forever Protecting You |
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Original Working Title: Protection |
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Music
曲:
Meng Qi Chan 陳孟奇 | Lyrics
詞: Lin Xi
林夕 | Arrangement 編: C.
Y. Kong |
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Produced by: Alvin Leong
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| Comments: |
| This was one of the first A&R works I did for the company I joined - basically I picked this track for Eric. When I first heard the demo, I thought this was a bit like how Eric used to be, but now he's grown up and he can still be that lovely prince, but in a more mature way. |
| Some people did have
doubts about this, some thought it might be a little bit childish or maybe
this type of song are only done by younger artists such as Alex Fong. But
Alvin, Stanley and I all thought if Eric does this in his way now, it'd
work. Well, turned out that it's become one of the tracks that a lot of people like on the album. |
| It just makes me smile and I so love seeing all Eric's fans singing along in his live shows. |
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| Arrangement Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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05. 秒殺 Second Kill |
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Original Working Title: See-I-See |
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Music
曲 & Arrangement 編: C.
Y. Kong | Lyrics
詞: Joe Lee 李峻一 |
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Produced by: Alvin Leong
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| Comments: |
| Eric needed an uptempo song. Alvin sent him this demo of mine, which was written again in Oct 2005. The tempo of Eric's version is actually slightly faster than the original demo. He sang all the choruses as well. |
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| Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/07 | |
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Artist: Hacken Lee 李克勤 CD Title: My Cup Of Tea Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
| Tracks:
01. 紙婚 (feat. David Garrett on Violin) 06. Twins
08. 生命四重奏
10. 晚安
11. 紙婚 (feat. 李嘉齡 on Piano) |
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| Overall Comments: |
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Well... we would never have thought we'd be working on Hacken Lee's album.
It was quite a challenge as Hacken wanted this album to be light and simple, kinda minimal-ish, cutting out a lot of instruments on the arrangements. And...btw, the bonus DVD was kind of my idea... I've been doing multi audio on my home-made DVDs for a few years, thought it'd be fun to have on this. I hope everyone has fun with it! : ) Thanks for supporting ! |
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02. 紙婚 (feat. David Garrett on Violin) |
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Original Demo/Working Title: J07 |
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Music
曲: Jean Chien 錢文璟
| Lyrics 詞: Wyman Wong
黃偉文
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監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong |
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Produced
by C.Y. |
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Recorded at aroom studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy & C.Y.
Vocals, Violin & Strings Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
| Comments: |
| Jean's song. Hacken
requested a piano song, and Jean really put effort into this one. Anthony Sun helped out on the piano while Ted Lo helped out on the strings arrangement. Originally we had full string quartet written and recorded for the song, but after we got David Garrett to play violin, the strings were kept to a minimal (and saved for the other piano version). |
| Pal borrowed an acoustic bass from Tom Lee Music, and played some on a few tracks on the album. On this track he also played electric bass which was used after the first music break solo. |
| David Garrett was just
amazing. (Man, you ARE tall!) When he first came into the studio and
everyone was saying, gee this violin sounds so nice - that was when he was
just tuning up. Thank you so much , David! |
| The title 紙婚 Paper Marriage has various meaning - in the song it means marriage based on paper. It's also a Chinese saying - the 1st year wedding anniversary is also called 紙婚 Paper Marriage. |
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| Demo Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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04. 分岔口 The Divaricating Road |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Wind Still Blows 風還在吹 |
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Music
曲: Salsa
Chen 陳小霞 | Lyrics: Hacken 克勤 | |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong Co-Produced & Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: C. Y. Kong Drums & Percussion: Davy Chan Piano: Anthony Sun Acoustic Bass: Pal Sinn Strings Arranged & Conducted by Ted Lo Strings: Hong Kong Sinfonietta (香港小交響樂團) Backing Vocals: Hacken Lee |
| Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter, & C.Y. Vocals, Violin & Strings Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
| Comments: |
| A nice song by Salsa Chen 陳小霞, and Hacken really likes this song. He even wrote lyrics for it. In the original demo, Salsa really slowed down in every first line in the chorus, creating a tension. We actually had that on the first arrangement, but Hacken wanted the song to be shorter and more direct. So give and take, in the end that was left out. But hey, it's still good : ) |
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| Demo Arrangement Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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06. Twins |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Bingo |
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Music
曲 &
Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics: Riley Lam
林若寧 |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong Co-Produced by: Davy Chan & Stanley Leung Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: C. Y. Kong Drums & Percussion: Davy Chan Guitars: Joey Tang Acoustic Bass: Pal Sinn Backing Vocals: Hacken Lee Viola & Violin arranged by Vincent Liauw Featuring: Solo Viola & Solo Violin: Ming Pak (白明) |
| Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy, Rob Porter, & C.Y. Vocals, Violin & Strings Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Jeremy & Amic Additional vocals recorded at The Invisible Studio by 馮翰銘 Alexander Fung. Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
| Comments: |
| Written around May 2007. Hacken wanted this song to be like twin brothers singing together, kind of like 2 vocal parts harmonising each other. Everyone put a lot of effort in this. The Viola / Violin parts also enhanced the twins character a lot. I must say, this is not something that we normally do, but it was fun doing it. |
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| Demo Arrangement Excerpt | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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08. 生命四重奏 The Quartet of Life |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Edmund Song Quartet |
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Music 曲: Edmond Tsang | Lyrics: Keith Chan 陳少琪 | Arrangement 編: Ted Lo |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong Co-Produced & Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Strings Arranged & Conducted by Ted Lo Strings: Hong Kong Sinfonietta (香港小交響樂團) Backing Vocals: Hacken Lee |
| Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony
Leung & Amic Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
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10. 晚安 Goodnight |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Harry 5 Tokyo Tower |
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Music 曲 / Arrangement 編: Harry Ng 伍仲衡 | Lyrics: Lin Xi 林夕 |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong
& Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: Harry Ng Guitars: So Tak Wah Additional Percussion: Davy Chan & Au Lap Kei (基) Strings Arranged & Conducted by陳珀 in Guangzhou Backing Vocals: Hacken Lee |
| Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony
Leung & Amic And also at at aroom studio, engineered by Davy Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
| Comments: |
| These 2 songs I helped produced. |
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11. 紙婚 Paper Marriage (Feat. Colleen Lee 李嘉齡 on Piano) |
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Original Demo/Working Title: J07 Colleen |
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Music 曲: Jean Chien 錢文璟 | Lyrics 詞: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
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監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong |
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Keyboards & Programming: C.
Y. Kong |
| Recorded at Avon Studios,
engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic And also at aroom studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy & C.Y. Mixed at nOiz by Simon Li |
| Comments: |
| For Colleen's
piano version, originally we had a simple piano arrangement, but after she
recorded that I felt that it would be a waste of her talent playing that
as she's like amazingly good. So, as Colleen went back to Germany after Easter, I did a total revamped piano arrangement for the piano part. It's way more difficult to play as the song is in A Minor key, it too me a while to get the demo done. Colleen recorded for two days, she practiced a lot and try to play as much as possible. Seriously, she's good, it's not usual to see someone who can learn and play such difficult piece in such short time! Thanks so much, Colleen! |
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| Piano Arrangement Demo | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/08 | |
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Artist: Hins Cheung
張敬軒 CD Title: Ardently Love 酷愛 Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
| Tracks: 02. 追風箏的孩子 Children Chasing Kites
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| Overall Comments: |
| This
became one of the top selling albums in 2007. The title song also got
Hins many awards and was the best song of 2007. Half the album was
produced by Alvin Leong (梁榮駿), and the other half by me (& our gang)!
This was actually one of my first A&R jobs (along with Hacken Lee's "My Cup Of Tea"). We had meetings as early as Feb 2007. I talked to Alvin about what songs to source, and we agreed to do exciting ballads that can help Hins, and on the other hand, since Hins loves R&B, we'd try see if any "Urban" sounding/modern pop R'n'B would fit him. Production meeting started as early as Feb 2007. The 1st meeting, and the 1st demo we listened to, was the demo of "酷愛 (Ardently Love)" - original demo entitled "Missing"! We all loved the song and thought it'd be 1st plug!! Hins, on the other hand, also brought in some demos and things that he wanted to do, including a mandarin song cover, and 2 demos by his (Shanghai based) musician friend 常石磊 (Shi-Lei Chang). (See details below). My position in this album was a bit
strange, cos I kinda had 3 different jobs on this album - A lot of people in the HK music
business thought this album sold a lot and all the success was purely
because of just the song 酷愛 (Ardently Love). But I see this differently.
酷愛 (Ardently Love) obviously helped but it also needs the the rest of
the songs on the album to match up to the quality. Album with all 10
good songs that people love will obviously sell more. It is our position
to try make any tracks on the album as good as possible, plus not only
just for the plug-songs or just one type of songs. I think this album
demonstrates how each song can grab you to keep on listening. To us, all
the songs are our heart & blood !!! |
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02. 追風箏的孩子 Children Chasing Kites |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Woodpecker |
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Music 曲: Chung-Ping Lee 季中平 | Lyrics 詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
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監製 Produced by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
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Produced
by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
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Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan, Rob Porter & C.Y.
Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| This was a song that Hins
wanted to cover. Originally it was by a mandarin duo group
兩個女生 (Tu-'Gels), from their album released
back in 1997, original song was called
啄木鳥
(Woodpecker). Funny thing was, no-one in the meeting other than Hins & I knew this song. I actually have the Tu-'Gels CD cos back in 1997, when I was on holiday break, some magazine thought one of the credits on this CD was me doing lyrics, so I got the CD to check it out! |
| Alvin passed the song to me for arrangement. The original was very typical Taiwan ballad, altho the group was i think, from Singapore. My idea was to modernize it yet keeping the dramatic emotions which we believed Hins could handle and express very well, which he did, of course! |
| Also this was one of the first songs that we found that if we work this way, our gang could work very fast - I laid down all the structure, harp, synths and guide strings. Anthony Sun played his piano part. Then Davy did the drums, Pal & Yin came in to do bass and guitars and then we sent it off for dubbing real strings. (Obviously song was good and we all loved making it sounding great!!) |
| Sound Clips:
The Demo Arrangement is more raw, all programmed, there were more electronics that in the end went to the background texture... Session Demo shows how everything sounded after we did all the drums, bass & guitars. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Demo Arrangement | Excerpt of Session Demo | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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03. 迷失表參道 Lost in Omotesando |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Hurt (殤) |
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Music 曲: Shi-Lei Chang 常石磊 | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong Co-Produced & Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Arrangement, Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Strings Arranged & Conducted by 陳珀 (Pak Chan) |
| Recorded at seewisehk,
engineered by C.Y. Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| Hins brought
along some demos from one of his best friends, 常石磊 (Shi-Lei Chang)
(Shanghai-based musician/composer/producer) and producer Alvin (Leong)
really liked this one, entitled "Hurt". Obviously we decided to have the arrangement handled by me, since it has that style close to some of the stuff Alvin & I used to do for Faye Wong or Leslie Cheung and others. Arrangement was done very quickly and
we had real strings sessions added. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Original Demo (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Arrangement Demo | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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04. 感情用事 Love Matters |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Long Distance |
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Music 曲: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong
Co-Produced by Stanley Leung Arrangement, Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks by C. Y. Kong Drums: Davy Chan Bass : Pal Sinn Piano: Anthony Sun Guitar: Yin Wong 亞賢 Strings Arrangement: 伍敬彬 Violin: 李葉波, 羅菁,林淋,易岸兮,李椰菁,郭慧,陳苗苗,張處輝,李磊. Viola: 錢宇幸,陳曉梅,吳 Cello: 高志堅,馬瑜,葉輝. |
| Recorded at 12/46 London
and seewisehk, engineered by C. Y. Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung, Amic Strings Recorded at 星海音樂廳(廣州GZ), engineered by 楊震.助理 蔡亞敏 Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| Yes, this song
was our intention to make it sound like Danny Chan
陳百強. A kind of a tribute. Ever since Danny passed away, I always thought there's something missing in the HK Music Scene, his voice, or that particular mood... I thought Hins' voice has that kind of character and can create that feel, but we didn't actually try sing this trying to pretend he sounded like Danny, but somehow in the end, it came out like this. The song was originally written back in London, in the summer of 2002. (Yes, 5 years ago). I was watching a lot of TV Drama which caused various emotions and feelings that in the end i expressed these into a few of my demos, and this was one of them. In 2003, there were also demo lyrics - one of my aunties' friend has a son Afa, who would really wanna try singing, and asked if i could let him try sing some demos. So I put some simple words to the demo and let him sing. Also in 2006, the song for revived again, as Leon Lai (AMusic) asked me for picked this demo for their new female artist Emily Wong. However, at the time after many singing sessions, they still couldn't get her sing the song properly and in the end told me that, maybe the song is too complicated for their artist and rejected it - yeah, without paying anything, that's the HK music business! And then Miriam Yeung also held this song, but she was changing record companies and in the end it wasn't used. So finally i picked this for Hins, and
yet revised the arrangement a bit more - since i wanted to have a bit
more of that Danny Chan feel, I re-programmed up some synth sounds that
matches the feel. Hins kept asking me how i got those sounds =) After this song was released, many friends actually sent me messages saying they really love the song. It was also used for some internet drama promotions. I'm glad, cos the way i see it, we need many different things, styles in this music scene, and happy to see that this fact helps making the album stronger!! |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Original '02 Demo (Excerpt) | Original '03 Demo (with Demo Words) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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05. 男孩最痛 Boy's Deepest Hurt |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Waiting |
|
Music 曲: Caroline Lee 李深怡 | Riley Pong 林若寧 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
| Produced by C. Y. Kong
/ Pal Sinn / Stanley Leung Co-Produced by Davy Chan Arrangement, Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Drums: Davy Chan Bass : Pal Sinn Piano: Anthony Sun |
| Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy, 文 & C.Y. Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Anthony Leung & Amic Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| Again this has
something kind of related to those Danny Chan 陳百強
songs... I picked out this song from a bunch of demos that Universal Music Publishing passed to us, and the original demo - i thought it sounded a bit like those similar Danny Chan songs that other artists at the time sang, like Sandy Lamb 林珊珊 or Susanne Ho (何嘉麗), and i felt it's a very touching song that Hins can deliver. I kept relistening to the demo and in the end decided that we should use this and I called Vicky Chan (Universal Music Publishing, at that time), but she said the song was on hold by another company - but since i am confirming the song, so Vicky in the end got it back for us to use. (Thank you Vicky!) Caroline's demo was very touching, very simple piano and vocals, I added some electronic soft beatboxes and later, since Hins said there were too many slow/quiet ballads, so we also added some noise clap rhythm, and Davy did the drums too. Pal produced the vocals and also played bass. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Original Caroline's Demo (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Arrangement Demo | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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07. 悔過詩 Poem of Regrets |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Pal Siu Diu |
|
Music
曲: Pal Sinn 單立文 | Lyrics 詞:
Riley Pong 林若寧 |
|
監製 Produced by Pal Sinn / C. Y. Kong |
|
Produced
by Pal Sinn 單立文 |
|
Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan, 文 & C.Y.
Recorded at Conrad’s Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong 黃尚偉 Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| Who would have thought Mr.
Pal wrote a Chinese "Siu Diu" 小調 traditional
type song? Davy & I helped arrange and made it a modernized 小調. This was quite fresh and slightly different to what we normally do!! |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| Demo Arrangement | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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09. 遙吻 Faraway Kiss |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Really Can't Leave You 真的 |
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Music 曲: Shi-Lei Chang 常石磊 | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
|
監製 Produced by Pal Sinn / C. Y. Kong |
|
Produced
by Pal Sinn / C. Y. Kong |
|
Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan, Rob Porter & C.Y.
Strings Recorded at 星海音樂廳(廣州GZ), engineered by 楊震.助理 蔡亞敏 Recorded at Avon Studios, engineered by Amic Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
| Comments: |
| Another song by Hins
friend Shi-Lei Chang 常石磊. It was actually a cover - cos it was a song released by some artist in China. |
| Anthony Sun worked on the Piano while i sorted out the structure, programmed the guides and stuff. Then Davy & Pal did the drums and bass, Yin did guitars and sent off for real strings session. Pal produced the vocals. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| Demo Arrangement | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/08 | |
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Artist: Sa Ding Ding
薩頂頂 CD Title: Alive 萬物生 (Promo) (Also available as special full-length audio track on the Bonus DVD for the Hong Kong Edition of the "Alive" CD.) Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
| Tracks: 01. 萬物生 Alive (Dispop Remix) |
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01. 萬物生 Alive (Dispop Remix) |
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Original Demo/Working Title: Sa Ding Ding Remix |
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Music 曲 & Lyrics 詞: Sa Ding Ding, Huang Yi | Remix: Dispop/DBF/C.Y. |
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Remix 監製 Produced by Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong / Dan F. |
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Remix Produced
by Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong / Dan F. |
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Remixed recorded at
Disuye Studio, Hong Kong, engineered by Dan F.
and at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Dan F. at Disuye Studio, HK. |
|
| Comments: | |
| This was really something
to us. Sa Ding Ding was coming to Hong Kong to promote her CD release,
and we were asked to do a remix track for the song Alive. We worked with Dan F. (Disuye 大少爺) on this remix. |
|
| Full length
remix was nearly 5 minutes, with a edited radio short version. It was available on a Promotional CDsingle, and later appeared as an audio track on the Bonus DVD, bundled with the Hong Kong edition of the Alive CD. |
|
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Original Version (You Tube) | Remix Rough Demo (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/10 | |
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Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 CD Title: Listen to Eason Chan (2xCDs) Label: Cinepoly Records / Universal Music, Hong Kong |
| Tracks: 01. 瑪利奧派對 Mario Party 02. 熱島小夜曲 Tropical Island Serenade 03. 閃 Flash 04. 演唱會 Concert Live Gig 05. 滑鐵盧車站 Waterloo Station 06. Crying In The Party 07. 狂熱革命 Maniacal Revolution 10. 乜嘢啫 What Do You Want 11. 兄弟 Brother (Bonus Track) |
|
| Overall Comments: |
| Eason's Cantonese "Dance" album, released around October 2007. |
| Eason always has so many
ideas, so many things he wants to do, and as his Concert/Tour was
approaching, he thought he wanted to do something totally different, and
came up with the idea of an album with mostly uptempo pop or dance
songs. The recent years, the local HK music scene had become drowned with slow karaoke ballads, and there weren't many upbeat or dance songs around that much. To the record company, this was quite a risky move, and they compromised by asking Eason to have at least one slow/ballad. At the time, Michael Lau 黎小田 had composed a song for Eason, and Eason would like to use this on the album as the only ballad. (More details below). |
| As Eason is the Priority
Artist in Universal Music in S.E. Asia, they also came up with an
additional idea that we asked the UK UM office to co-ordinate with us to
do REMIX tracks for all 10 songs. In addition, the UK office also did
one track for Eason (Track 5 "滑鐵盧車站 Waterloo Station"). The remixes were released on a second disc, making this release a double CD. Also the album was released on vinyl too. |
| The Bonus Track "兄弟 Brother", duet with Andy Lau 劉德華, was a theme song to the movie of the same title, which was released around the same time of the album release, hence it was added as bonus track. (More details below). |
| During the time of recording, Eason was busy filming and then rehearsing for his "Moving On Stage 1" concerts. In a way, we were quite satisfied with the album, and it has done its job, bring back quality uptempo songs back into the HK music scene - when "Listen To Eason Chan" was released, it was played by many boutiques, shopping malls, computer shops, etc, which in recent years, only played Japanese or Korean uptempo songs in their stores. And oh yes, people in mini vans, sports cars all blasting this album in their cars too!! |
|
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01. 瑪利奧派對 Mario Party |
|
Original Working Title: Con's All Sa's |
|
Music
曲 &
Arrangement 編: Conrad Wong
黃尚偉 | Lyrics
詞: Joe Lee 李峻一 |
| Produced by:
Conrad Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers and Programming: Conrad Wong 黃尚偉 Guitars: Joey Villanueva Chorus Arrangement by Patrick Lui 雷有輝 Backing Vocals: Nancy Chan & Patrick Lui 雷有輝 Brass Arrangement by Anthony Fernandes Trumpet: Stewart Kirwan Trombone: Joseph Fuego Saxophone: Oliver Smith |
|
Recorded at Conrad Studio by Conrad Wong &
Davy Chan |
| Comments: |
| We've been recording at Conrad's studio for some time. I asked Conrad to write a song for Eason. Since we were doing uptempo songs, we agreed that he should do a Latin-ish, Salsa-ish song which he is good at doing! |
| Conrad also took
additional time recording Brass Session for this track. In fact, he
recorded the brass twice, as the first session (and the performance)
wasn't good enough, and he called in another brass session players and
re-recorded another more punchier session. This is how music should be done - it's not about the money - it's about getting the best quality stuff!! |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| Rejected Brass Session (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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02. 熱島小夜曲 Tropical Island Serenade |
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Original Working Title: Dong Song |
|
Music
曲:
Single
肖光偉 | Lyrics
詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
Arrangement 編: Zhang Yadong 張亞東 |
| Produced by
Yadong Zhang 張亞東/ Davy Chan / C. Y. / Conrad Wong / Eason Co-Produced & Production Co-ordination by Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers and
Programming: Zhang Yadong 張亞東 |
|
Music Recorded at Jet Studio by Yadong
Zhang 張亞東 |
| Comments: |
| Eason always wanted to ask Yadong Zhang 張亞東 to write him a song. However at the time, Yadong didn't have enough time, but we managed to grab this track from one of his writers in Dong Music in Beijing. |
| Everyone still remembers the hook line "Wow-wo-wo-wow, Wo-wo-woh" !! |
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03. 閃 Flash |
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Original Working Title: DBF Break6 |
|
Music 曲: Davy Chan | Lyrics 詞: Eva Chan
陳詩慧 | Arrangement 編: Davy Chan & Dan F. |
| Produced by:
Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Co-Produced & Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers and Programming: Dan F. (Disuye) Additional Synths: C. Y. |
|
Music recorded at Disuye Studio HK by Dan
F. and at seewisehk by C. Y. |
| Comments: |
| Davy had this demo "Break6" that Eason chose, and Davy decided we should work with Dan F. (Disuye 大少爺) on this track. |
| Dan F. is a UK
DJ/Producer/Remixer resident in Hong Kong. He works at the Bar
Yumla, and also does
remixes for UK and also has his own record label
Disuye Records. Davy has been working with Dan years ago, while he was doing DBF... |
| Actually Eason sang the
track with a rough arrangement, and Davy and Dan worked like 5 or 6
different versions before we decided we picked the best one. The result was a track with sounds that didn't really appeared before in Canto-Pop!! Eason always say this is the best song to listen to while in a car or while driving!! |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Davy's Funky Arr. Demo (Excerpt) | Dan's Rough Arr. Demo (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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04. 演唱會 Concert Live Gig |
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Original Working Title: Threshold |
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Music 曲: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Eva
Chan 陳詩慧 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. in London |
| Produced by: Conrad
Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Co-Produced & Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers, Analogues, Guitar Tweaks & Programming: C. Y. in London |
|
Music recorded at 12/46 London by C. Y. in
London |
| Comments: |
| I wrote this around
October 2005. Actually this has also been my "ringtone" on my mobile! Eason had this demo, he liked it and kept it for this album. However he (and many others) see this song differently than I do. They all think this is like one of those fast tempo techno pop songs. To me, if we weren't doing a dance album, this would become more like an uptempo indie band pop song. Maybe one day he will do that live! |
| I actually had a demo where i just scribbled some rough words, original idea was the image of people partying like doing a live gig in a karaoke box/room! We decided to re-write the lyrics, and now it's about him singing, about how wild he could go when he's on stage, but somehow it also matched if it's used for a concert theme song! |
| This song took the least time to record, well... the song is only 2mins30sec or so... but we finished recording this very quickly and later it became the theme song to the Moving On concert. Eason always wanted to have a concert theme song that has this energy and whenever he sings this live, it always gets people standing up cos he always delivers that energy and heart pumping excitement in his performances! |
| Song features quite a few analogue synths that I used in London. We've also used the vocoder to process the vocals. I've included here, excerpt of the version testing the vocoder FX. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | ||
| Demo (2005) (Excerpt) | Vocoder Version (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
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05. 滑鐵盧車站 Waterloo Station |
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Original Working Title: Leap of Faith |
|
Music 曲 & Arrangement 編: Steve
Welton-Jaimes/Tony Swain | Lyrics: 詞: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 |
| Produced by
Steve Welton-Jaimes / Tony Swain Vocals Produced by Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Production Co-ordination by Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: Steve Welton-Jaimes & Tony Swain Backing Vocals: Eason Chan |
|
Music recorded at Sonic Boom Studios ,
Roydon, UK by Steve Welton-Jaimes & Tony Swain |
| Comments: |
| As the concept of the
"Dance" or "Uptempo" album was progressing, Universal had contacted the
UK office, planning to do a 2nd bonus CD of remixes of all the 10 songs
on the album. Eason thought maybe should ask them to submit a track too, and we got a few demos. "Leap of Faith" was the first one we got, and one that Eason picked in the end. |
| All the music was done in UK, and they sent us the backing for singing vocals. We then sent the vocals back and they did all the mixing, so this was a real UK production. |
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06. Crying In The Party |
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Original Working Title: Michael Lai Song |
|
Music 曲: Michael Lai 黎小田 | Lyrics 詞: Wyman
Wong 黃偉文 |
| Produced by:
Conrad Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Co-Produced & Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers & Programming: Anthony Chue Guitars: Joey Tang Bass: Pal Sinn Drums: Davy Chan Additional Programming: C. Y. Backing Vocals: Eason Chan Strings arranged by Michael Lai & Anthony Chue Violins: 李葉波, 羅菁,林淋,易岸兮,李椰菁,郭慧,陳苗苗,張處輝,李磊. Celli: 高志堅,馬瑜,葉輝 |
|
Music and Guitars recorded at Zoo Music
Studio, engineered by Sky |
| Comments: |
| One of the first demos Eason had when we started this album. Originally this song was to be used on another concept album, but since the record company really wanted to have at least one ballad/slow song on the album, this was picked by Eason. |
| The idea that we used a Michael Lai song was that he would submit melodies like ones he used to do for Leslie Cheung, Danny Chan and Anita Mui. Eason and Wyman worked on the idea of the lyrics, as this is an uptempo, party album, so they thought about "there's always someone crying in a party" and hence the title. |
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07. 狂熱革命 Maniacal Revolution |
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Original Working Title: Be E Ba La |
|
Music 曲: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 & Davy Chan |
Lyrics 詞: Law Siu Law少 |
| Produced by:
Conrad Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Co-Produced & Production Coordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: Davy Chan Additional Programming: C. Y. Drums: Kevin Li (Hardpack) Bass: Glenn (Hardpack) Guitars: Don (Audiotraffic) & Davy Chorus Arrangement by Eason Chan & Patrick Lui 雷有輝 Backing Vocals: Eason Chan & Patrick Lui 雷有輝 |
|
Music Recorded at aroom studio, engineered
by Davy, Gene[文]. |
| Comments: |
| During the making of the previous (Mandarin) album "Admit It", Eason had an idea of a song that goes round and round... he recorded a rough demo of ideas, singing many different bits / variations. In the end, Davy took all the bits and re-assembled them, putting them together to become a proper song. |
| Members of Hardpack and Audiotraffic played on the track. |
|
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10. 乜嘢啫 What Do You Want |
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Original Working Title: E Trip |
|
Music 曲: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 | Lyrics 詞: Jessie
“You See Hand” 游思行 |
| Produced by:
Conrad Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Co-Produced & Production Coordination: Stanley Leung
Keyboards, Synthesizers & Programming: C.
Y. |
|
Music recorded at seewisehk and aroom
studio, engineered by C. Y. & Davy Chan |
| Comments: |
| Another Eason's composition. He saw i had a Boss SP-202, and we played around it, and there was this drumloop that he had an idea and quickly sang the demo melodies. |
| Then i assembled the track, not in the traditional arranging way, but rather, more like DJs putting loops together, building up the song. Then Davy added real drums on top. |
| When Eason recorded the vocals, at one point he did a loud cry/screaming note. I thought it would be fun if i layer it with a vocal sample from his other song (that I wrote), 浮誇, which he also did a similar scream. It also mateched the lyrics. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| Demo Arrangement (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
|
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11. 兄弟 Brother (Bonus Track) |
|
Original Working Title: EC Brother |
|
Music 曲: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 | Lyrics 詞: Andy
Lau 劉德華 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
| Produced by:
Preston Lee 李安修 & Jacky Chan 陳德建 Music Produced by: Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Keyboards, Synthesizers & Programming: C. Y. Drums: Davy Chan Bass : Pal Sinn Guitar: Yin Wong 亞賢 |
|
Recorded at aroom studio & seewisehk,
engineered by Davy, Gene[文] & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Just before album
recording started, Eason was filming with Andy Lau on the movie
"Brother". They had the idea of doing a duet. Eason called me from Thailand and I just said, the ideal would be he composes the melody and Andy Lau puts lyrics to it (and we do the arrangement!). He loved the idea, so it happened... |
| The track was produced by Andy Lau's side, where as we took care of the arrangement/music. |
|
| 2007/11 | |
| (No Image) | Artist: Baby Monkiz CD Title: ? Label: Oriental Sky (Shanghai) / EMI Hong Kong |
| Tracks: 01. Electric Girl 我的女王 (My Queen) |
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01. Electric Girl 我的女王 (My Queen) |
|
Original Demo/Working Title: Electric Girl |
|
Music 曲: Taizo Jinnouchi 陣內大藏 | Lyrics 詞: Baby Monkiz | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
|
監製 Produced by Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong / Stanley Leung |
|
Produced
by Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong / Stanley Leung |
|
Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals Recorded at Conrad’s Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong 黃尚偉 Mixed by Dan F. at Disuye Studio, HK. |
| Comments: |
| Not sure if this was
released or was just used by promotions or web promotions. "Baby Monkiz" are these 3 girls group from Shanghai. They were here in Hong Kong briefly in September 2007 and we recorded this. The girls are work very hard - not only they put lyrics to the song themselves, they also do choreography plus, when they first arrived at the studio, they would stay in one corner, practicing the song and also getting their voices ready before recording (not that many artists would do that!!). |
| Some of you might
recognize the title "Electric Girl". Yes, this is actually a cover
version of one of the famous early 90s hit "Electric Girl" but Normal
Cheung 張立基. Actually the Cantonese version was
a cover of a Japanese hit by Taizo Jinnouchi 陣內大藏. The record company picked this song for Baby Monkiz, and the girls themselves put mandarin lyrics to this, which talks about their queen/idol that they admire - which rumours to be the actress Shu-Qi 舒琪. |
| The arrangement is more
heavier beats with synths. We didn't wanna do typical hip-hop, so went
for more pop dance style, yet retaining certain memorial bits of the
original. Song was mixed by Dan F., of Disuye HK. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| 1991 Norman Cheung Version (You Tube) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/12 | |
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Artist: Eric Suen 孫耀威 CD Title: In The Name Of... Love Label: Go East / Universal Music, Hong Kong |
| 07. 走出生天 (陳詩慧合唱)
Run To The Sky (Duet with Eva Chan) |
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| Overall Comments: |
| I helped part of the A&R on this album. Eric went to USA to record some of his tracks and I helped out on part of the co-ordination. |
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07. 走出生天 (陳詩慧合唱) Run To The Sky (Duet with Eva Chan) |
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Original Working Title: EP-Duet |
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Music 曲: Pam Chung 鍾達茵 / C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞:
Lin Xi 林夕 | Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
| Produced by:
C.Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synthesizers & Programming: C. Y. Drums: Davy Chan Bass : Pal Sinn Guitar: Joey Tang Chorus/Backing Vocals: Pam Chung 鍾達茵 |
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Recorded at aroom studio & seewisehk,
engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
| Comments: |
| Universal had signed the lyricist Eva Chan 陳詩慧 as a singer/songwriter artist, and would like to do some introduction to the public. Other than asking her to write lyrics on some of the tracks on other artists' releases, a duet with Eric Suen was planned. |
| We were busy doing Eason's Moving On Stage1 shows during October 2007, and the only girl in the band, Miss Pam Chung 鍾達茵, who also composes song, had a duet demo which I then wrote other counter lines and it became this song. (Pam also did the chorus for this song). |
| This was the
first recording session for Eva Chan. Davy handled the final mixing session. |
| Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
| Demo (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
| 2007/12 | |
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Artist: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 CD Title: Moving On Stage1 (Live) (3xCDs)
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| All Tracks... Too Many To List.... |
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| Overall Comments: | |
| This is the Live CD release for the Eason's Moving On Stage 1 Concerts in Hong Kong. | |
| The Concerts were held
from October to November in Hong Kong, 16 shows/16 nights!! In a way, this pretty much occupied most of my time from October to November, as I was the programmer, additional keyboardist, and musical director of this show. (Note: Eason was the one who decided which songs to sing...) Haven't been playing live for many years, and it was fun to re-join the gang, it was like the old, original "Music Is Live" band was reformed! |
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| About the CD recording... there were some issues at the post production stage, which due to time restrictions, it couldn't be "saved"... (sigh...) | |
| The show moved on to Eason's World Tour, which I'm also in, and the following year, 2008, we all followed Eason's tour travelling to many places round the world!! =) | |
| Other Works in 2007 |
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Artist:
Paisley Hu 胡蓓蔚 |
CD Title: Don't Think Just Do Label: J-Sonic Entertainment Ltd |
| Work: Remix Arrangement
(We did a remix for free, no $ charged, but they never released the orignal and the remix became the standard version!) |
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| Plus many other A&R & Production Planning for Universal Music Hong Kong... |
If major radio stations play music 24
hours a day (rather than having talk shows or game shows),
it would really help revive the music scene. Years ago, we hear songs on the
radio day & night,
like you'd hear 15 songs in every hour. Nowadays, they play only a few songs
within the hour.
The more people listen to songs, the more chance they like the songs,
or have the chance to pick up songs they not heard before,
which can lead to more CD sales, more support to artists and musicians.
Say MORE to music shows, not talk shows.
