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 2009. |
2009 |
Freelance
Musician/Arranger/Producer/Programmer... |
2008/09~2009/02 was taken up mostly by the HHHM Album production. |
2009/03~2009/08 "Movin' On Tour" continued + a few more Live shows... |
2009/09~ Finally back to normal production works!! |
2009/01 | |
Artist: Joey Yung
容祖兒 CD Title: (see below) Label: EEG Entertainment, Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 可歌可泣 (May Sing, May Cry) |
可歌可泣 May Sing, May Cry |
Original Demo/Working Title: The Cause |
Music 曲: / Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong |
Produced
by Alvin Leong |
Music recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
Comments: |
This was the last song I wrote in London before I went back to Hong Kong back in 2006. |
Later in 2008, Pam Chung re-sang a demo for me and I passed it to Alvin (Leong) and he picked this song for Joey Yung. Joey did very very well on the vocals! (Pam sang chorus on the track). |
We actually finished
recording this song back in August 2008, but EEG decided to put this on
the next (2009) album instead of on Joey's last album (Sept 2008). This
became the first plug song for Joey, and advert theme song for Broadway
Electronics series of TV ads. Glad a lot of people like this song. Thank you all!! |
Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
Demo (Excerpt) | Music Video (YouTube Video) |
2009/01 | |
Artist: Andy Hui 許志安 CD Title: On Core Collection 自導/自傳 新曲+精選
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05 Bottoms Up 11 天下有情人 (Lovers in the World) 16 你傷風我感冒 (You Got a Cold, I Got Flu) |
Overall Comments: |
Did 3 arrangements for (producer) Alvin Leong - these were done during June~Aug of 2008. |
05 Bottoms Up |
Original Demo/Working Title: RO Free Call |
Music
曲:
AOK 溫應鴻| Lyrics 詞: Ho Feng CHAN
陳浩峰 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
Produced by: Alvin Leong 梁榮駿
Keyboards, Synthesizers,
Programming, PC Tweaks & Editing: C. Y. Kong |
Music Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C. Y. |
Comments: |
A mid tempo funky-ish song. Joey Tang did the wahwah guitars. |
11 天下有情人 Lovers in the World |
Original Demo/Working Title: RO Ivana SpkPhone |
Music
曲:
Ivana Wang 王菀之
| Lyrics 詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
Produced by: Alvin Leong 梁榮駿
Keyboards, Synthesizers,
Programming, PC Tweaks & Editing: C. Y. Kong |
Recorded at aroom studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy
Chan & C. Y. |
Comments: |
This was the first song done, in June 2008. Ivana's original demo was again piano based, but we changed it to an acoustic guitar based song. |
16 你傷風我感冒 You Got a Cold, I Got Flu |
Original Demo/Working Title: RO Intermediate |
Music 曲: 陳鈞元 | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕| Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
Produced by: Alvin Leong 梁榮駿
Keyboards, Synthesizers,
Programming, PC Tweaks & Editing: C. Y. Kong |
Recorded at aroom studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy
Chan & C. Y. |
Comments: |
This was the 2nd song done, during July/Aug 2008. The original demo had a extra bridge, but Alvin and I decided it sounded better without. |
Links | |
Demo Arrangement with Bridge (Excerpt) | Demo - All Sessions (Excerpt) |
2009/03 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 CD Title: HHHM Label: Cinepoly / Universal Music Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 01 Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m. 02 還有什麼可以送給你 Precious Love 03 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience 04 今天只做一件事 One Thing Per Day 05 一個旅人 The Traveller 06 七百年後 700 Years Later 07 Life Goes On 08 太陽照常升起 The Sun Also Rises 09 不來也不去 Remember When 10 沙龍 Salon |
Overall Comments: |
Original concept started while we were doing the Eason's "Movin' On" Tour. A few members had song demos that suited Eason, and I asked everyone to submit demos to Eason, and I said to Eason, why not this tour band of yours each write and produce a song for you? COs each of us composes & produces! Eason loved the idea and the project was started. |
Recording started end of August 2008, and it took us a full 5 months to finish this album. During which, a lot of things happened, plus we were still touring. And finally, in March 2009, we finally saw birth of HHHM!!! |
It was supposed to be 11 songs - but our previous band leader, Mr. Pal Sinn, decided not to take part, even tho production had begun on his song. |
It's probably the last album we're producing for Eason for the time being. I feel that he needs to move on and work with other producers - so he can have more variety and explore more grounds! But before that, my aim for this album was really to bring him back down a bit, a bit more closer back to the mass, since I feel for the last album and compilation album, he had been slightly off track doing songs that were diverting him away from the public. So in a way, this album, sorry that you won't find wild, spooky, outrageous songs, but more ballads, more easy listening songs, with the touches, the heart, the feelings etc - that is, not only just Eason's feelings, but also apply to anyone, everyone! |
Some little
facts on production on this album: We tried to incorporate members of the Moving On Tour band to play all the sessions on the album, unless in cases where it's necessary to use other musicians (e.g. Acoustic Bass or Strings Session, obviously!). Also you'll find most songs we have the guitar parts done by different guitarists (in a normal situation, it'd be only one guitarist dubbing all the parts on a track). We just want the best for this album, in a way, we've used up every single cent of the production money (yes, this is our heart and blood, what u get is real musicians, real strings, and all efforts from each and everyone involved!) Eason sang each song over many vocal sessions. (Fans who waited downstairs until 4am would know!!) Our studio bills r like over 250 hours for just recording vocals!! (Making me very very poor now...!!) I also
called up Mr. Jim Lee, who has been producing Eason's
last Mandarin album. We all love Jim's mixing, and what's
better to have Jim mixing all these songs for us!! And Jim
did a great job in handling these songs!! All songs were
mixed at 白金錄音室 Platinum Studio,
Taiwan. |
01 Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m. |
Original Working Title: Gary Party Fast Swing |
Music 曲: Gary Tong 唐奕聰 |
Lyrics 詞: Siu Hak 小克 |
Produced by:
Gary Tong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: Gary Tong Piano: Ivan Leung Drums: Davy Chan Bass: “Sai Wai” Liang 細威 Guitars: Yin Wong 亞賢 & Joey Tang Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉 |
Music recorded at Midi-On
Studio, engineered by Gary Tong & Uncle Geen (堅叔),
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Comments: |
Gary Tong's song for Eason. Album opener, and this was the first plugged song. |
Gary wrote
this song, I think around early '08. I asked him to save
this song for Eason, because we feel it definitely fits him.
Gary's original idea for lyrics was about lazy diction (懶音),
and Eason asked Wyman to write the words, but Wyman was too
busy working on his show, and he recommended us Siu Hak 小克.
Siu Hak 小克 wrote about the frustration of being chased lyrics - record company feared that it would end up like the previous song Eason had, as it's now a bit like a tribute to Lyricists, and not a lot of people would relate to it. Siu Hak 小克 did try re-write, but in the end we all feel that this is actually better, plus people can still relate the frustrations / feelings while they are either approaching a project deadline, or one is working at 3:30 am for homework or presentation for the next day. |
Ivan (Leung) helped Gary on the Piano arrangement (Ivan also played Keyboards and Piano for the Movin' On Tour, at KL, Tianjin, ChongQing & ShenZhen). |
Funny that, Gary never intended this to sound like Mika - in fact only after Eason sang the song, I said this has that same Mika feel, but hey, this is Eason style too! (Just like, they say, Mika is the UK equivalent to Eason)!! (Plus, they r good friends!!) - That reminds me... i need to send this CD to Mika and his lovely sister!! |
02 還有什麼可以送給你 Precious Love |
Original Working Title: DBF P-Love |
Music 曲: Davy Chan | Lyrics
詞: Yiu-Fai Chow 周耀輝 |
Produced by:
Davy Chan / C.Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung
Keyboards, Synths, Bass & Programming: Lau Chi-Yuen (劉志遠) |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Davy's song
for Eason. Davy wrote the melody about 10 years ago. It was on a cassette demo tape. Last year, we dug out some old demos, and we revived them. Actually, Davy's orginal demo was in Mandarin, and we did submit this song for the previous mandarin album "Don't Wanna Let Go", but it wasn't picked. Eason then wanted to save this song for this album. In a way, this song 'grows' - the more time u spent with it, it just keeps growing in your heart. |
We asked Yiu-Fai
Chow 周耀輝 to write lyrics, and he asked if there's anything
we wanted to write. Davy didn't say anything, but I secretly
told him some of Davy's personal stories - and he came back
with these lyrics. This was the first song Eason recorded vocals, back in Early September. At that time, he was still busy promoting the mandarin album and he wasn't in very good condition (mood wise). At one point he did ask us about what is the lyrics trying to say. It was when Davy was expaining to Eason about the words, he then realised it was his own story - and Eason immediately understood that emotion... Yes, it's actually deeper than what it may sound - and it does take time to grow. |
03 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience |
Original Working Title: Pam Banana |
Music 曲: Pam Chung 鍾達茵 |
Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
Produced by:
Pam Chung / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung
Piano, Keyboards, Synths &
Programming:
Gary Tong |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Pam's song for Eason. There's a story behind how we picked this song... |
1st of all,
Pam never gave us this demo - I found it in her ipod by
accident - there were few lines in the melodies that really
got me, and it won me by that emotional factor from day 1.
But on the other hand, this song might sound like a very commercial pop karaoke song. Eason was thinking of picking another demo from Pam, but, Davy and I and Pam went to persuade him. It wasn't until after he sang it the first time and I did some vocal editing, he eventually felt that shivering emotions. Lin Xi also told Eason that in the lyrics, he is actually writing about (Lin Xi) himself. |
While I was
sorting out the melody demo for this song, there were many
moments that reminded me of Gary Tong's arrangement. I
called Gary and asked if he could arrange this song, but he
was dead busy at the time. In the end, we exchanged some
work - I had to do another arrangement for him while he
helped us arrange this song! The thing is... when we finished this song, Gary actually cried while listening to it. He also has that feeling for the lyrics! It's a Pop Ballad, afterall. Karaoke or not, it doesn't matter. But it's actually not very 'normal' since, it does have different Time Signatures - like a 5/4 and 6/4 in the choruses, making the last line of the melody unusual, yet it creates that tension/emotion. If it wasn't for this HHHM project, I don't think Eason would get to sing a song like this anymore. It might sound simple or less complex - but it goes straight to the heart. |
Pam and I both produced vocals on 2 or 3 different days. The final vocal was an edit / compilation, I tried looking for all the emotional elements in Eason's voice, and luckily, in the end, Eason finally felt that shivering emotions and understood why we asked him to pick this song. |
04 今天只做一件事 One Thing Per Day |
Original Working Title: JT Ring |
Music 曲: Joey Tang / Schumann
Lee 舒文 | Lyrics 詞: Yiu-Fai Chow 周耀輝 |
Produced by:
Joey Tang / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Guitars: Joey Tang & Yin Wong 亞賢 Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: Schumann Lee 舒文 Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Harmony Vocals: Joey Tang Additional Editing & Tweaks: C. Y. |
Recorded at Zoo Music Studio,
engineered by Schumann Lee |
Comments: |
Joey Tang's song for Eason, which Joey had co-written with Schumann. |
Joey
submitted 3 demos and Eaon picked this one. He loved that
acoustic / smoothing feel of the song. While they were taking vocals, Eason always tried to sing some harmonies to it - but he always tried not to pick the obvious notes. But he said he would leave JOey to do the harmony vocals, so I arranged a quite difficult harmony part for Joey to sing, picking out all the not so obvious notes, yet the harmony would help put even more colours. In the end, even Eason was surprised by the harmony vocals =) |
05 一個旅人 The Traveller |
Original Working Title: Pat Queen Of Pain |
Music 曲: Pat Lui
雷有暉| Lyrics 詞: Siu-Kei Yu 余紹祺 |
Produced by:
Pat Lui / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards & Programming: Pat Lui 雷有暉 Drums & Percussion: Davy Chan Bass: Pal Sinn Guitars: Joey Tang & Yin Wong 亞賢 Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉, Joey Tang, Pam Chung 鍾達茵 Additional Editing: C. Y. |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Rob Porter, Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Pat's song
for Eason. Pat submitted this in Spring '08. Eason loved it
and they had real fun taking vocals - Eason is so proud that
the phrasing in each of the choruses are different. Note that, there r 3 backing choruses on this track - Pat, Joey and Pam all sang different parts - took me a whole day to edit all the vocals ! Hahaha! |
Production of this track was started in Early September, this was the only song that our previous band leader Mr. Pal Sinn played bass, before he left the band. |
06 七百年後 700 Years Later |
Original Working Title: Jim Brother One |
Music 曲: Jim Lau 柳重言| Lyrics
詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 |
Produced by:
Jim Lau / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Piano: Ivan Leung Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Guitars: Yin Wong 亞賢 Chorus & Backing Vocals: Jim Lau 柳重言 Additional Editing & Tweaks: C. Y. Strings Arrangement: Ted Lo First Violins: 李葉波, 張毅, 易岸兮, 李椰菁, 李磊 Second Violins: 謝林, 郭慧, 張廷輝, 陳苗苗 Violae: 錢寧幸, 葉凱英, 鍾慧鏛 Celli: 于萍, 葉輝 |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Jim Lau's song for Eason. I helped and did the arrangement. This has become the 2nd plugged song. It took me, Anthony Sun & Eason a long time (6 months+) to beg, talk, persuade Jim to submit a song! Finally he did, and I promised him we'd put every effort we got to make this sound great!! |
Jim Lau
joined the tour around April '08. The first day he went to
rehearsal, I already told him about this project. He kept
saying his songs are no good. We kept begging him, tho not
forcing him (cos i know, if a composer doesn't feel like
writing, there's no way to force or chase). In the end he submitted this song to Eason. The original lyrics he had was "一哥". Eason & I thought maybe we'd ask Riley to write the lyrics, and he came back with the Wall-E idea. |
I asked Ivan (Leung) to play the piano part (since I was
asking Anthony Sun to work on piano on other songs). Ivan
did a great job. Ted Lo wrote brilliant strings on this song, thank you Ted!! And obviously, we need thank Ah Yin for his great guitar solo, where the double-bends actually hurt his fingers! |
07 Life Goes On |
Original Working Title: Asun J Stone |
Music 曲: Anthony Sun 孫偉明 |
Lyrics 詞: 譚健文 (DASH) |
Produced by:
Anthony Sun / Gary Tong / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Piano: Anthony Sun Keyboards, Synths & Programming: Gary Tong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Guitars: Joey Tang & Suntone Lee (神童) Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉 Strings Arrangement: Ted Lo First Violins: 李葉波, 張毅, 易岸兮, 李椰菁, 李磊 Second Violins: 謝林, 郭慧, 張廷輝, 陳苗苗 Violae: 錢寧幸, 葉凱英, 鍾慧鏛 Celli: 于萍, 葉輝 |
Music Recorded at
Midi-On Studio, engineered by Gary Tong &
堅叔 |
Comments: |
Anthony Sun's song for Eason... he actually submitted another song, and we started production on that, but Eason still preferred this one! |
Anthony
broke his finger during October '08 and could not play piano
for the tour in November. At first Eason had the idea - how about this song we talk about The Man Who So Loves the Piano but Cannot Play since he punched his fist on a book and broke his little finger! So it started off with the idea of something in life you really like, but you can't get to at the time - but it's more like life has up's and down's - that kind of feeling. |
Gary Tong
helped arrange this song, and I asked DASH to write lyrics.
This song actually took the longest in recording vocals. Also Anthony (Sun) spent like a week on playing the piano part (after he recovered). On this track Davy changed all the cymbals on his drum kit to vintage cymbals and Hi-hat, to create another sound that matches the song. |
08 太陽照常升起 The Sun Also Rises |
Original Working Title: Yin Song |
Music 曲: Yin Wong 黃仲賢| Lyrics
詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
Produced by:
Yin Wong / Davy Chan / C. Y. / Eason Chan Co-Production / Production Co-ordination: Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Guitars: Yin Wong 亞賢 & Joey Tang Piano: Anthony Sun Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉 |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Yin's song for Eason. This is probably Yin's first ever published pop song. Originally he said he would not write, but maybe works with Eason to co-write. But in the end he submitted this song! |
Again, it took us a long time to persuade Yin to write - in the end we were all surprised by this song he submitted. In a way, it's back-to-basic, a simple yet soothing melody. Eason really liked it this way, and with Lin Xi's lyrics, it really reminds us for many many early mornings - when we just finished recording vocals and the sun was already rising... It's yet another song that grows... |
The flute in this track, was the Mellotron flute sound from M-Tron. |
09 不來也不去 Remember When |
Original Working Title: C Y Remember When |
Music 曲: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics
詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
Produced by:
C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Eason Chan / Stanley Leung Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Piano: Anthony Sun Guitars: Yin Wong 亞賢 & Tommy Chan Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉 & Pam Chung 鍾達茵 Additional Editing & Tweaks: C. Y. & Davy Strings Arrangement: Ted Lo First Violins: 李葉波, 張毅, 易岸兮, 李椰菁, 李磊 Second Violins: 謝林, 郭慧, 張廷輝, 陳苗苗 Violae: 錢寧幸, 葉凱英, 鍾慧鏛 Celli: 于萍, 葉輝 |
Music recorded at aroom
studio, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
My song...
submitted this very late, cos I was helping Eason on his
song. Actually I was in the middle writing another song for Eason. Everyone was then expecting me to submit yet another spooky or weird song. I did start writing one, but everyday my time was taken up by all the other songs - and there was no way I could hide away to create something else. So in the end, time was really running out, and Eason picked one of the songs that I had, and I said I'll hand in other new songs later!! |
I wrote the
melody for this song back in 2002, actually after watching a
lot of TV dramas. There were many emotions involved.
However, some i'd already forgotten about. It was not until
we had Lin Xi's lyrics and Eason tried it out and I was
editing the Day 1 vocals, it suddenly got me. It was this emotion that I knew I had to look for in Eason's voice. Actually the last few lines were from the Day 1 vocals, they made me cry and Eason also agreed that we have to keep these lines. What we learnt when recording this song was that, sometimes capturing that emotion is the most important thing. |
There were
many other "accidents" in this song too... Davy's drums were 'lost' due to a file corruption problem, and he had to re-do / re-record the drums again on the last day, just before we sent the tracks to Jim Lee in Taiwan for mixing. |
There were actually quite a few demos on this song - First "Demo 2002" (with Melody Guide), then a "Demo 2003" (with Male Vocals Guide, Vocals demoed by a son of a family friend's friend) and a "Demo 2008"(with Female Vocals Guide, demoed by Pam Chung). |
Links | |
Demo '08 (Excerpt) |
10 沙龍 Salon |
Original Working Title: EC Band Spirit |
Music 曲: Eason Chan 陳奕迅 |
Lyrics 詞: Wyman Wong 黃偉文 |
Produced by:
Eason Chan / Stanley Leung / Davy Chan / C .Y. Keyboards, Synths, Programming & Tweaks: C. Y. Kong Piano: Gary Tong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: BassKit 何俊傑 Guitars: Yin Wong 亞賢 Chorus & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui 雷有暉 |
Music recorded at: aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. |
Comments: |
Eason's own
song. Time was running out and Eason & I had not yet
submitted our song. In the end I helped him first, by sending him some chord progressions ideas and composed this song. His original idea was "Band Spirit" - so many things happened these 5 months, including band leader change and so on... To Eason, I think his melody is really his memories for this project. Wyman wrote the lyrics, and it matched the picture. |
This was the
last song recorded - Eason had to go to Taiwan for promotion
the next morning, and he kept re-singing the song, cos he
didn't want to leave the studio - in the end he sang til
like 5am in the morning, even though back at 1am, we could
have call it a day. The song was to be the last track, rounding up the album. In a way, it also has many flashback moments for all of us. |
I also made
an echo effect for the ending - since it's not just the song
ending, it's also the album ending... (Actually, I was
trying it out and asked Davy and Eason if they like it or
not, but turned out that both of them said it's good and
that's what we used in the end). Yes, and there's a click (i won't say where, but hint is - it's after 3 mins, and not when he's singing) hahaha, it is not a recording fault or mastering fault. It's intentional. The note about the "top notch hi-fi" thing was there cos, since we have Jim Lee on mixing and we have great mastering in UK, some audiophile people * might challenge us that there's a click - just wanna tell in advance that the click is intentional. |
(* A few years ago, when Eason released U87, some audiophile/Hi-Fi people commented that Eason recorded in a bad small studio with bad mic that wasn't the U87 and so on - just because they saw that interview video on the Bonus DVD, where Eason was talking about the songs... That interview was filmed at a rehearsal room [for that NCM live] - but people would think it was a recording studio and then started 'attacking' and giving bad comments! ) |
Some After Comments: |
Ever since I updated this page, I found out a lot of fans
have read what I said above. I just want to clarify a few things here. |
"It's probably the last album we're producing for Eason for
the time being" People, please READ. "Probably" and "for the time being". After 5 months on this album, I think we all need a rest. And I said above that we feel he needs work with other producers too. This doesn't mean we won't be submitting songs. |
There's no way that one album could satisfy everyone these days. I think most important afterall, it's Eason. He wanted to do this and he is satisfied with these 10 songs - this album is kinda like his snapshot memories for 2007~2009. And throughout making of this album, I think we all learn a lot, including Eason himself, he understands a lot more about all of us, song productions, and so on. |
About the missing Mr Pal Sinn song - it's not about mandarin
or cantonese, it's not about record company. Mr Sinn decided
not to take part after he left the band. We need to respect
his decision. Note also: Originally, other than Gary's "Allegro Opus 3.30 am", Pal's song was supposed to be the other "play" / alternative song.... |
To round up... it's been an enjoyable 6 months working on this album. Nearly everyone involved are happy. There were many other productions or song requests that we had to turn down cos we were busy doing this album. Once again, a big big thank you for all the people who actually bought the CD. |
2009/03/09 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 Moov Live '09 - HHHM |
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Venue: 兆基創意書院 Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity |
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Tracks: 01 Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m. 02 還有什麼可以送給你 Precious Love 03 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience 04 今天只做一件事 One Thing Per Day 05 一個旅人 The Traveller 06 七百年後 700 Years Later 07 Life Goes On 08 太陽照常升起 The Sun Also Rises 09 不來也不去 Remember When 10 沙龍 Salon Encore1 不來也不去 Remember When Encore2 還有什麼可以送給你 Precious Love |
Overall Comments: |
"Moov Live" School Live Show, that we performed all 10 new songs from the album HHHM before release. |
There were no sequence/programming in the show, so my job was rather the 3rd keyboardist instead of the programmer!! (Doing backup Synth Pads and some triggering). |
The Audience in the venue was very close to the stage - even Eason got a bit nervous there! Overall it was very warm and direct - and we r all very glad that everyone enjoyed the show and enjoyed the songs!! Thank you all!! |
2009/03~2009/08 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 "Moving On" World Tour (Live) |
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Stage 17 : 2009/03/21 Los Angeles, USA Stage 18 : 2009/03/22 San Francisco, USA Stage 19 : 2009/04/25 Shanghai (Part II), China Stage 20 : 2009/04/30 Suzhou, China Stage 21 : 2009/05/29+05/30 Taipei (Part II), Stage 22 : 2009/06/20 Guiyang, China Stage 23 : 2009/07/11 Foshan, China Stage 24 : 2009/07/18 Beijing (Part II), China Stage 25 : 2009/07/25 Guangzhou (Part II), China Stage 26 : 2009/08/16 KL, Malaysia |
Overall Comments: | |
The rest of
the "Moving On" World Tour The tour did take up a lot of time, for example in July, half the time it was touring. We'd leave HK on Thursday, come back on Sunday. So in way it's like we only got Mon~Weds to do other work... |
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2009/04/14 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 "H3M" Electronic LIVE (Moov Fire 撻著校園) (Live) |
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Venue: Hong Kong Polytechnic University 理大 | |
01 Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m. (Tainted Mix) 02 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience (Trip Mix) 03 不來也不去 Remember When (Piano) 04 七百年後 700 Years Later (Piano) 05 一個旅人 The Traveller (Retro Mix) 06 還有什麼可以送給你 Precious Love (Ambi Mix) |
Overall Comments: |
Part of the H3M Promotion / Moov Live |
As we have
to do these smaller Moov School Live, but just playing a few
songs and only 5 or 6 of us were allowed on stage, so we
decided to do a few acoustic shows, plus this one, which was
electronic. 4 songs were actually re-arranged with new synth-based arrangements. |
Line Up: Vocals: Eason Chan Tenori-On & Backing Vocals: Pam Chung Vocoder & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui Keyboards/Synths/Programming/FX: C. Y. Keyboards: Gary Tong Piano: Anthony Sun |
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Listen (Short Excerpts for Electronic Remixed STUDIO Versions) | |
還有什麼可以送給你
Precious Love (Ambi Version) |
於心有愧
Guilty Conscience (Trip Version) |
Excerpt MP3 | Excerpt MP3 |
2009/04/30 | |
Artist:
Joey Yung
容祖兒 CD Title: A Time For Us Label: EEG Entertainment, Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 01. 可歌可泣 (May Sing, May Cry) 05. 心賊難防 (Thief of Heart) |
01. 可歌可泣 May Sing, May Cry |
Original Demo/Working Title: The Cause |
Music 曲: / Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong |
Produced
by Alvin Leong |
Music recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
Comments: |
(See Above) |
05. 心賊難防 (Thief of Heart) |
Original Demo/Working Title: Reunion |
Music 曲: / Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong |
Produced
by Alvin Leong |
Music recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
Comments: |
Written around Oct 2005. In 2008, Pam Chung helped
sang a demo vocal version. Alvin always wanted to use this song and kept it til 2008 for Joey. |
Sound Clips (MP3 Excerpts) | |
Demo '08 (Excerpt) | Excerpt of Finished Mix |
2009/06/11 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 "Same Wrong Sin" (Metro Radio Show LIVE) |
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Venue: 香港會展 HK Convention Centre | |
with Mr. and Swing |
00. Intro 01. Allegro Opus 3.3am. (Tainted Mix) 02. 一個旅人 03. Everyone (Eason + Mr.) 04. 想太多 (Eason & Mr.) 05. 搖擺 (Mr.) 06. 開到荼蘼 (Faye Wong cover) 07. 麻醉 (Beyond cover) 08. 今天只做一件事 09. Life Goes On 10. 七百年後 11. 這麼好 (Eric Kwok Cover) 12. 我不好愛 (Eric Kwok) |
13. 1984 (Eason & Swing) 14. 大大公司 (Eason & Swing) 15. 我有貨 (Swing) 16. Shut Up (Eason/Mr./Swing) 17. 暴殄天物 (Eason/Mr./Swing) 18. 太陽照常升起 19. 不來也不去 20. 沙龍 21. 於心有愧 (Trip Mix) 22. 還有什麼可以送給你 (Ambi Version) 23. 夕陽無限好 24. 明年今日 25. 與我常在 |
Overall Comments: | |
Eason's Live show for Metro Radio, with the band Mr., and Swing. This was also part of the H3M promotion - hence all songs from the H3M album were played, but we played the "Electronic" versions for Allegro, Pam Song and Davy Song. | |
The "Intro" was really long prior to the first song - this was actually because I had technical problems. When we got on stage, the communication of my laptop to the audio interface was lost/broken due to a short power cut/reset before the show, and I had to do a cold reboot on stage while the rest of the band was jamming along a very very long (nearly 5mins) intro variation... (nice works, guys!) |
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Line Up: Band Leader/Keyboards/Synths: Gary Tong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: Bass Kit Guitar1: Joey Tang Guitar2: Yin Wong Piano: Anthony Sun Tenori-On & Backing Vocals: Pam Chung Vocoder, Percussion & Backing Vocals: Pat Lui Backing Vocals: Yoyo Sham Keyboards/Synths/Programming/FX: C. Y. |
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2009/06/13 | |
Artist:
Joey Yung
容祖兒 "很忙 Very Busy" Moov Live |
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Venue: 兆基創意書院 Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity |
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1. Slow Dance 2. 答案 3. 羅馬時差 4. 延長賽 5. 這就是愛嗎? 6. 很忙 7. 烏賊 8. 赤地之戀 9. 我所知的兩三事 (Moov Live Version) 10. 可歌可泣 (Moov Live Version) |
Overall Comments: |
Joey Yung's
Moov Live, debuting her new songs from her Mandarin album "很忙
(Very Busy)". A lot of the songs I actually re-programmed, so you'll probably find the Live versions and the CD versions are quite different. We all find the Live recording very good, it was recorded well and mixed really well. |
As you can see - this show was actually like 2 days after the Eason Metro show - yes - we were that busy!!! |
NOTE: This has been released as Bonus DVD on the "Very Busy" CD. |
Line Up: Vocals: Joey Yung Band Leader/Guitar1: Joey Tang Guitar2: Yin Wong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: Bass Kit Piano: Dennie Wong Backing Vocals/Percussion: Pat Lui Keyboards & Programming: C. Y. |
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2009/06/25 | |
Artist: Vincy
泳兒 唱泳音樂世界 Vincy Live 2009 |
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Venue: 香港會展 HK Convention Centre | |
(Live CD Released 2009/09) |
Overall Comments: |
We did a Live show for Vincy, on 2009/06/25. (There were about 25 songs). |
Guests on the show incl. Nick Ka-Fai Cheung 張嘉輝, 海鳴威 and Alan Tam 譚詠麟. |
Line Up: Vocals: Vincy Band Leader/Keyboards/Synths: Gary Tong Guitar1: Joey Tang Guitar2: Yin Wong Drums: Davy Chan Bass: Bass Kit Piano: Dennie Wong Backing Vocals: Pam Chung Keyboards & Programming: C. Y. |
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2009/07/02, 2009/07/03, 2009/07/07 | |
Artist:
Eason Chan 陳奕迅 "H3M" Promo Mini School Tour |
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Venue: 2009/07/02: 馬六甲 Malacca, Malaysia 2009/07/03: KL, Malaysia 2009/07/07: 杭州 Huzhou, China |
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- Allegro Opus 3.3
a.m. (Guitars) - 七百年後 700 Years Later (Guitars) - 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience (Guitars + Tenori-On) - 沙龍 Salon (Guitars) - 不要説話 Don't Speak (Guitars + Tenori-On) |
Overall Comments: | |
Part of the H3M Promotion | |
During the first week of July, we had to quickly go to
Malaysia for 2 of these school tour, then to Huzhou, China
(and immediately followed by next few Movin' On Tour shows).
We played 3 songs (out of 4) on each show, with 2 guitars and Pam Chung on the Tenori-On and chorus. Despite the busy schedule, we had great fun and a great time!! |
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Line Up: Vocals: Eason Chan Tenori-On & Backing Vocals: Pam Chung Guitar : Yin Wong 亞賢 Guitar: "Suntone 神童" Jason Lee Arranged & Directed by C. Y. =) |
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Listen/Watch... | |
《H3M》大马校园音乐交流会 on You Tube |
於心有愧 Live (KL,
2009/07/03) on You Tube |
2009/09 | |
Artist: Kate
Tsui 徐子珊 CD Title: Kiss Me Kate Label: 恒藝亞洲, Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 01. 讀心術 Heart Reading 03. 惡作劇 Practical Joke 04. 血拼 Blood Fight 05. 讀心術 (Master Mind Mix) 06. 讀心術 (Carnival Mix) |
Overall Comments: |
Davy and I basically
produced the whole EP (except for one song). It's basically 3
songs plus 2 remixes we did. Kate is a really nice girl who works really hard + dances really well. It's not usual to have a chance to work with a "Miss Hong Kong" from the Miss Hong Kong Pageant |
01. 讀心術 Heart Reading |
Original Demo/Working Title: Bet It All |
Music
曲:
Robert Waller.Steve Duberry
| Lyrics 詞: Joe Lai 李峻一 |
監製 Produced by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Produced
by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Music
& chorus recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals recorded at Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong Mixed by Dan F. (Disuye) |
Comments: |
The first song we did for Kate. We actually started back in Oct 2008. But the song didn't get finished until like early 2009, due to many revisions to the lyrics and also Kate's busy filming schedule. |
Links | |
Unofficial MV (Good Audio Quality) on You Tube |
Official MV on You Tube |
03. 惡作劇 Practical Joke |
Original Demo/Working Title: TooGood2BTrue |
Music 曲: / Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 |
監製 Produced by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Produced
by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Music
& Chorus recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals recorded at Avon Studio, engineered by Ah Cheung Mixed by Dan F. (Disuye) |
Comments: |
Written around
Oct 2005. In 2008, Pam Chung helped sang a demo vocal version.
Recorded in March/April 2009. |
04. 血拼 Blood Fight |
Original Demo/Working Title: Fong Deen |
Music
曲:
林天愛 | Lyrics
詞: 黃仲凱 / Rap: Gold Mountain |
監製 Produced by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Produced
by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Music &
Rap recorded at aroom
studio & seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y. Vocals recorded at Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong & Stanley Leung Mixed by Davy Chan at aroom studio |
Comments: |
Song
composed by singer-songwriter from Taiwan. This was the last recorded song on the album, around April 2009. |
05. 讀心術 (Master Mind Mix) |
Original Demo/Working Title: Bet It All (Remix) |
Music
曲:
Robert Waller.Steve Duberry
| Lyrics 詞: Joe Lai 李峻一 |
監製 Produced by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Produced
by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
REMIXed by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Davy Chan |
Comments: |
Actually this was the second remix. The other remix was the first one done. (We did 2 because the record company and management requested different styles). |
As we were touring in China for Eason, there was a week when we had to stay in Shanghai before going off to Suzhou, this remix was actually done during those 3 days in our hotel room. |
06. 讀心術 (Carnival Mix) |
Original Demo/Working Title: Bet It All (Carnival Remix) |
Music
曲:
Robert Waller.Steve Duberry
| Lyrics 詞: Joe Lai 李峻一 |
監製 Produced by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
Produced
by Davy Chan & C. Y. Kong |
REMIXed by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by Davy Chan |
Comments: |
This was the first remix done, a more carnival / brass band marching version. Wish there could be an MV in Carnival style, with marching band or soldiers!! |
2009/09 | |
Artist: Mr. CD Title: If I Am
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01. 背影 02. 搖擺 03. 如果我是陳奕迅 If I Am Eason Chan 04. 感動 05. 森林 Forest 06. 無謂再假 07. 遇到了 08. 尋找一千遍 09. Mr. Tam (Pre-rocker One Take Version) |
Overall Comments: |
Second album by the band Mr. |
Produced by Gary Tong, Davy Chan & C. Y. Recorded during 2009/03~07. Yes, it takes 3 producers' combined power (!) - and it's really good! Pls buy it !! =) |
Listen/Watch... | |
"如果我是陳奕迅 If I Am Eason Chan" MV (YouTube) | "森林 Forest" MV (YouTube) |
"如果我是陳奕迅 If I Am Eason Chan" TVB MV | "森林 Forest" MV (Youku) |
2009/10 | |
Artist:
Keeva Mak 麥家瑜 CD Title: Debut Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 04. 吃不消 Can't Take It Anymore |
04. 吃不消 Can't Take It Anymore |
Original Demo/Working Title: Stray |
Music 曲 & Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
監製 Produced by Alvin Leong & Gary Tong |
Produced
by Alvin Leong / Gary Tong |
Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals Recorded at Midi-On Studio, engineered by Gary Tong & Uncle Geen 堅叔 Mixed by Simon Li, nOiz |
Comments: |
See also comments on Projects 2008 |
Finally,
Keeva's debut is released. It's been over a year - CD
release was delayed by record company due to many reasons
(incl. too many new female artists last year). There are many really good songs on the album, incl. the no.1 single "殺死我的溫柔 (Killing Me Softly)", 火滾 and of course "吃不消" =) |
2009/10 | |
Artist:
Prudence Liew 劉美君 CD Title: Queen of Hardships Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 05. 蝙蝠 The Bat |
05. 蝙蝠 The Bat |
Original Demo/Working Title: Naked |
Music 曲 & Arrangement 編: C. Y. Kong | Lyrics 詞: Riley Pong 林若寧 |
監製 Produced by Prudence Liew |
Produced
by Prudence Liew |
Music Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Mixed by David Ling Jr. |
Comments: |
Originally I
was gonna help out a bit more on this album, but i was tied
down by the H3M and Movin' On Tour, and many things kinda
got in the way. So in the end I only provided on song for
Prudence. Original idea was "Naked"... (Another voc. demoed by Pam Chung). ... |
Prudence
actually produced the song - I took care of the arrangement
and guitar dubbing. Due to yet another time issue, record company asked Riley to write the words. Prudence had David Ling Jr. on mixing, so this was mixed by DLJ. |
Listen/Watch... | |
Demo (Excerpt) | MV on AOL Video |
2009/10/31 | |
Artist:
Adidas / Winnie Lui Event Title: Winnified Wonderland Location: Adidas Shop, Beijing |
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Tracks: Misc/Mixed |
Overall Comments: |
Mixtape style music (mixing various songs for catwalk use) for my fren Winnie's show held in Beijing Adidas store 2009/10/31. |
01 Mix for Adi (Catwalk) |
Comments: |
15 min mix with various tracks by Yann Tiersen, Shiina Ringo, Goldfrapp, Annett Louisan, Bajofondo, coba, Daphine and so on, for the catwalk part of the event. |
02 Mix for Adi (BGM) |
Comments: |
30 min crossfade mix with various tracks for looping and used in general as ambient music at the background for the event. |
Web Links: Vogue China |
2009/11 | |
Artist:
HotCha CD Title: Shall We Dance... Shall We Love Label: Neway Star Music Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 03. 大場面 Big Scene 06. Cheeky Girl (Regen Solo) |
03. 大場面 Big Scene |
Original Demo/Working Title: Anybody Out There |
Music
曲: Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong | Lyrics
詞: Joe Lai 李峻一 |
監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Produced
by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Music Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals recorded at Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong & Stanley Leung
Mixed at Disuye Studio, HK, engineered by
Dan F. |
Comments: |
Working with
HotCha was real fun and probably one of the best moments in
2009. They r really nice, funny and they work really hard,
never complain and they really listen. Haven't
laughed/smiled for so long in studio!! Co-wrote with Davy, this was actually recorded in July/August, but because of the girls' tight schedule, we didn't finish this until like October'09. |
Note: We were given direction & reference from the record company that this needs to be like some Korean pop songs. To be honest, this is more European to me than Korean, since the Korean styles r actually referenced from many euro pop/dance songs. (In fact the basics of this song was from a demo i did back in 2005). |
Listen | |
Listen on YouTube | MV on YouTube |
06. Cheeky Girl (Regen Solo) |
Original Demo/Working Title: Regen New Beat |
Music
曲: Regen Cheung | Lyrics
詞: Siu Hak 小克 |
監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Produced
by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Music Recorded seewisehk
& Disuye Studio, engineered by C.Y. & Dan F.
Vocals recorded at Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong & Stanley Leung
Mixed at Disuye Studio, HK, engineered by
Dan F. |
Comments: |
Regen's solo
song. She actually wrote and recorded the demo herself!
(Talented girl!!) This was one of the most difficult song to arrange, was a big challenge - as Regen had certain ideas and we needed to translate that and made it real =) |
Dan did the mixing and additional programming. |
Listen |
Listen on YouTube |
2009/12 | |
Artist:
Jason Chan 陳柏宇 CD Title: Can't Be Half Label: Sony BMG Hong Kong |
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Tracks:
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02. 人外有人 Men After Men |
Original Demo/Working Title: Seconds |
Music
曲: Davy Chan / C. Y. Kong | Lyrics
詞: Lin Xi 林夕 |
監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Produced
by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Music Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals recorded at Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong & Stanley Leung
Mixed at Air Studio, HK, engineered by
Soloan. |
Comments: |
Another song
this year co-written with Davy. Jason has always loved the stuff we did for Mr., and really would like us to do a rock ballad for him - and this is what we offered. Despite the rushed condition and short recording hours, Jason did really well in this song! Note: Alan (of Mr.) sang the demo for us... |
Listen |
Listen on YouTube |
03. 最後的擁抱 The Last Hug |
Original Demo/Working Title: Regen New Beat |
Music
曲:
Kazuki Sakai | Lyrics
詞: Cookie Wong 黃凱琪 |
監製 Produced by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Produced
by C. Y. Kong / Davy Chan / Stanley Leung |
Music Recorded at aroom studio &
seewisehk, engineered by Davy Chan & C.Y.
Vocals recorded at Avon Studio & Conrad's Studio, engineered by Conrad Wong & Stanley Leung
Mixed at aroom studio, HK, engineered by
Davy Chan |
Comments: |
This was the first song we were asked to do for Jason. It was another challenge, cos it's a Japanese cover (Theme song to the movie "MW"), and it had to be approved by the Japanese Record Company before they can release this. |
Jason hadn't
recorded any up-tempo song before and this was his first try
and what an effort!! The song is not easy to handle and he handled it really well. We r very sure in the coming future, this guy will be pretty massive =) |
Listen |
Listen on YouTube |
2009/12 | |
Artist:
Hacken Lee 李克勤 CD Title: Threesome Label: Universal Music Hong Kong |
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Tracks: 09. 冇 Nothing |
09. 冇 Nothing |
Original Demo/Working Title: Naked |
Music
曲: BoBo Chan | Lyrics
詞: Riley Pong 林若寧
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監製 Produced by Alvin Leong 梁榮駿 |
Produced
by Alvin Leong |
Music Recorded at seewisehk
and Avon Studios, engineered by C.Y.
Vocals
recorded at Avon Studios |
Comments: |
Arrangement for a song for producer Mr. Alvin Leong. Light "boss nova" but slightly modernized. |
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.