Background info : Jyotsna is an ancient language word which means "moonlight", her English name is actually Yvonne Peng, she was discovered after she emerged the runner up in the 1998 singing competition organised by MTV (side-note : Jolin Cai Yi Lin won the first spot in this same batch while Go Go & Me Me clinched the top prize in the song-writing category).

This twelve-track album is produced single-handedly by a guy called Zhou Zhi Hao whom I'm not familiar with.

Song writers include Chen Xiao Juan, Huang Zhong Yuan, Lin Jian Hua, Pan Xie Qing and Lin Xi.  Jyotsna even contributed two of her own works here (side-note : she co-wrote a song called "Rainy Day" for Go Go & Me Me which is included in their debut album "Say Forever").

The first ballad single cum title track "Jie Tao" is covered from a Japanese song, with the Mandarin lyrics written by Yao Ruo Long.

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This is essentially her fourth release although if you go by the full album length criteria, "Lonely Without You" is considered her second outing because two of her other releases are actually demo-tape singles.

As in her first debut album "Let Me Think", all the songs here are single-handedly written by Cheer herself.  However there are more music varieties here : besides folk, there's also Bossanova, light rock and techno.

Cheer flew specially to Boston to do part of the album recording.  The album is produced by Will Lin Wei Zhe (who also produced her debut album "Let Me Think"), Wang Zhi Ping and a female producer Li Xin Yun.

Cheer also scored a first by being the first artiste in Taiwan whose songs have inspired a film director to write a story based on them and to make it into a short film called "Green Sky".  Running about twelve minutes, it is available for online viewing.  If you have Windows Media Player, you can click here to watch it.

For more info on this talented gal, visit her official website by clicking here.

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For those uninitiated,  Eve Tan is one of the top ten popular TV actresses of Singapore, no doubt boosted by her friendly and approachable girl-next-door image.  She is regarded (unofficially) by the media as the number fifth TV queen of Television Corporation of Singapore (Singapore's main TV station), after Zoe Tay, Fann Wong, Ann Kok and Phyllis Quek.

If you consider this release from the audio CD point of view, it is essentially a singles CD in that it contains only one brand new track called "My Favourite" (note : there's also a bonus karaoke version found in the audio CD).  Composed by Ke Gui Ming, it is a light-tempo chirpy track which I think will draw two extreme reactions from listeners, namely either they like it very much or they hate it like nothing else.  I belong to the latter group as I thought it's a rather trivial and childish tune  - quite disappointing considering that it is the sole new recording found in the CD, what a waste of Eve's sweet and clean vocals.

The only upside of this release comes from its VCD visual component which consists of nine karaoke music videos such as the nice folksy "Understanding" (or Mo Qi),  "Total Commitment" (or Quan Xin Quan Yi) and "Natural Smile" (or Xiao De Zi Ran).  

It also contains the karaoke MTV of the 1999 Singapore National Day's theme song duet (sung with Dreamz FM) directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark (or Xu Ke) (note : both the Mandarin and English versions are found here).    

Out of these nine MTVs, two of them are brand new music videos which were shot especially for this current release, namely the new track "My Favourite" and one of her older songs "Drawing Closer To Love" (or Ai Man Man Kao Jin).

Refer below for the full song listing in Simplified Chinese. 

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Barely a month after releasing the album of its very first male artiste Stanley Huang, Virgin Music has come out with another male offering : newcomer Craig (or Huo Jing Lun), whose looks are said to bear a mix resemblance to Takeshi Kaneshiro (or Jing Cheng Wu) and Richie Ren Xian Qi.

Background info : he's an ABC, having born and grown up in the United States all his life.  It was only until about three years ago that he finally visited Taiwan for the first time.  He dabbles in song writing and his demo works were reportedly heard by Yao Qian who then successfully signed him on to Virgin Music.

The first single is the title track ballad "Hello" composed by Lin Dong Song and written by Adam Hsu Chang De.

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