FLORA CHAN

KELLY CHAN

ANITA MUI

KWONG WA

Flora Chan

Paisley Galaxy

I'm So Happy

Without You

TVB actress Flora Chan (or Chen Hui Shan) has released her debut album.  

The album contains two duets, one sung with William So (or Su Yong Kang) and the other with Eddie Ng (or Wu Guo Jing).  In particular, the duet song with Eddie Ng is a cover of his own composition "Care Too Much" (or Dui Ni Tai Zai Hu) originally sung by Kelly Chan (or Chen Hui Lin).  

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Kelly Chan's (or Chen Hui Lin) album seems to be getter bigger and bigger.  Following her recent magazine-size Mandarin release "Love You So Much", this new Cantonese offering tops it up by coming in the LD-size package.  Even the lyrics booklet is larger than normal, making it quite a hassle for someone to read.

Half of the tracks here (five to be exact) are produced by Mark Lui (or Lei Song De).  Other producers include Gary Chan, song-writer cum singer Eddie Ng (or Wu Guo Jing) and Jim Lee.

The first single is the title track "Paisley Galaxy" which is an infectious techno dance number composed by Mark Lui and written by Lin Xi.  There is also a bonus Mandarin version of this same song titled "Why Don't We Dance".

With its bulky size package, it's no wonder that the album comes bundled with a giant-size poster of Kelly Chan, which should make her fans so very happy.  But personally, I hope her future albums will shrink back to the normal size so that I'll not lose sleep over where to store her CDs.

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A couple of set-backs have happened before this latest offering by Anita Mui (or Mei Yan Fang) was released.  First up, her elder sister died of cancer a few months back.  Then, the naked drawing of a woman on the singlet she's wearing on the album cover, has led to the banning of her advertising posters to be put up in certain public places in Hong Kong.  Lastly, her album was originally titled "Mui Mui" but a restraining order from the court filed by a fashion brand called "Miu Miu" led to the record company having to fork up additional pocket money to manufacture sticker tags to cover the old title.  The new album title is ironically called "I'm So Happy" which is also the name of her first single which is composed by Lin Jian Hua and written by Huang Wei Wen.

Another note-worthy mention is that this album is reportedly her last collaboration with Capital Artists which has been her record company in her entire music career since the early eighties.

The album is produced by Wang Shuang Jun and Calvin Choy (or Cai Yi Zhi, who's one of the members of Anita's protege group The Grasshoppers).

A ballad duet called "Let's Cry" is included here.  It is sung together with Eason Chan (or Chen Yi Xun) who also composed the track.  The lyrics are written by Lin Xi.

The limited-edition album package comes with a short-story booklet (which contains photos shot by Calvin Choy and a story line written by author Ocean Chan or Chen Hai Qi) and a tester set of skin products.

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TVB actor Kwong Wa (or Jiang Hua) has released his debut EP offering.

Containing a total of five tracks, it includes the first single cum title track ballad "Without You" and two Mandarin tracks.  The song writers and album producer are all unfamiliar names to me.

The EP comes with a bonus VCD which contains the music video (plus karaoke MTV) for "Without You".

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