EASON CHAN

EASON CHAN

SAMMI CHENG

CHEUNG KA FAI

So Hot

68'29"

Ladies First

I Can Love

This is Eason Chan's (or Chen Yi Xun) brand new release under a new label.  

After listening to the whole album, I'm glad to say that his departure from Capital Artists may be a wise move after all.  Most of the tracks here are of competent quality and radio-friendly. 

The first single cum title track "So Hot" is a thumping dance track.  On the other hand, the second single "The King Of Karaoke" is a nice ballad composed and produced by Chen Hui Yang and written by Lin Xi.

The CD comes with a bonus VCD which contains the music video for "So Hot".

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Personally I'm glad Eason Chan (or Chen Yi Xun) is leaving Capital Artists for good, especially after witnessing the drastic deteriorating quality of his past few releases.  Let's hope his new sign-on with EEG will prove a wise move for this talented singer.

This release is a compilation album by Capital Artists, which is no doubt timed deliberately to come out around the same period as his upcoming debut offering under his new label EEG.

Containing a total of sixteen tracks, it includes two brand new songs "Sky Net" and "So You Are Not Here" which are the theme-songs for the TVB serial "A Matter Of Customs" (or Lei Ting Di Yi Guan) starring Lisa Wang and Wong Hei.

As for the remaining fourteen collection songs, they are made up of some of Eason's best-known hits in Capital Artists such as "Invincible" (or Tian Xia Wu Shuang), "My Happy Times" (or Wo De Kuai Le Shi Dai), "I Have Nothing" (or Wo Shen Mo Dou Mei You) and "Time Song" (or Shi Dai Qu).

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This is a busy year for Sammi Cheng.  Not only is she working hard to cling on to her reign as the Hong Kong Pop Queen, she has also set her sights on the movie industry.  Her latter efforts have started to pay off handsomely.  She was recently nominated "Best Actress" in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards for her role in the movie "Needing You" (or Gu Nan Gua Nu) co-starring Andy Lau.  "Needing You" is also the biggest-grossing Hong Kong movie for 2000.  Her other movie "Summer Holiday" ( or Xia Ri Mo Mo Cha) (co-starring Richie Ren) also scored by being the third highest-grossing Hong Kong movie for 2000.

 Her latest Cantonese album "Ladies First" contains the theme-songs for the afore-mentioned two movies.  "Along The Line Of Emotion" is the main theme-song for the movie "Needing You".  "Happy Or Not" (a Mandarin track) and "If We Don't See Each Other Again" are the respective main and supporting theme-songs for "Summer Holiday".

The CD comes with a bonus VCD containing the four music videos for "Happy Or Not", "If We Don't See Each Other Again", the catchy title track "Ladies First" and the techno dance track "Sha Ke".  To top it up, an additional bonus CD is included which contains a remix version of "Sha Ke".

(Important Note : Sammi's Singapore fans need to take note of something.  The Singapore edition of "Ladies First" is quite different from the Hong Kong version.  The Singapore edition contains the Mandarin tracks for the theme-song of "Needing You" and the supporting theme-song of  "Summer Holiday".  Also the bonus VCD contains only three music videos as the MTV for "Sha Ke" was left out.  The bonus remix CD is also not included.)

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TVB actor Cheung Ka Fai (or Zhang Jia Hui) has released his very first album which is in the form of an EP.  Beforehand, I've read about reports saying that his vocals resemble Heavenly King Jacky Cheung.  After hearing his debut work, I can't find a trace of resemblance at all as unlike Jacky, Ka Fai has a higher-pitch and much softer voice.  His vocal efforts are quite commendable considering this is his maiden offering.

The album contains six tracks.  His first single cum title track "I Can Love" is a catchy and radio-friendly song.  The second single "Subconsciously" is an easy-listening ballad which showcases his competent falsettos.  

The record company has utilised his status as an actor by including two theme songs : one for his movie "The Gambler 3" (titled "Fake Hope) and the other one for his TVB serial "Four Talented Guys" (titled "You Don't Need Much Reason To Love").  The latter theme song is a duet sung together with his girlfriend cum TVB actress Esther Kwan (or Guan Yong He).

The EP CD comes with a bonus VCD containing the music videos for "I Can Love" and "Fake Hope".

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