EDISON CHEN

NICHOLAS TSE

UKU PANG

EDMOND LEUNG

Edison Chen EP

Viva

Thinking Of You So Much

Parental Guidance

Highly regarded as the single biggest threat to Nicholas Tse's current Small Heavenly King position, newbie movie actor Edison Chen (or Chen Guan Xi) has released his debut album, which is in the form of an EP (side-note : incidentally, both Edison and Nicholas belong to the same parent record company EEG).

Altogether there are five Cantonese tracks, one Mandarin number and one English song.  His first single "Love Oneself" is a ballad composed by singer Leslie Cheung (or Zhang Guo Rong) and written by Lin Xi.  In addition, he sang its Mandarin cover titled "Owe You The Love", also written by Lin Xi.  

The second single "Come" is a rap-dance number which is the main theme-song for his debut movie "Gen-Y Cops" co-starring Stephen Fung and Sam Lee.  There is a counterpart English version named "Heroes".

The EP comes in an attractive paper package and includes a bonus VCD containing the music videos of "Love Oneself" and "Come".

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Nicholas Tse (or Xie Ting Feng) has come out with his brand new album.

Nicholas's latest offering is packed with his favourite type of music, rock.

His first two singles are both composed by himself and written by Lin Xi.  The first single "Alive Viva" is a thumping dance-rock track while the second single "Playground" is a mid-tempo ballad.  The third single "Devil's Idea" is another slow rock ballad.  A note-worthy mention is that the album contains his very first English ballad work "Senses".

The CD comes bundled with a bonus VCD containing the music video of "Alive Viva". 

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A newcomer by the name of Uku Pang (or Peng Hai Tong) whose credentials look pretty impressive.  Only 22 years old, she has already wrote songs (usually using the pseudonym name Peng Ni) for established artistes  like Jacky Cheung's Cantonese hit "Lonely Guy" (or Ji Mo Nan Ren) (a hot karaoke favourite) and Mandarin track "Half Happiness" (or Er Fen Zhi Yi De Xing Fu), Leo Ku's Mandarin song "Not Friends Anymore" (or Bu Zai Shi Peng You) and Cass Phang's recent Cantonese number "As Beautiful As You Want" (or Yao Duo Mei Li You Duo Mei Li).  She was also the pianist for Candy Lo's "Music Is Live" concert in Hong Kong.  

Uku's debut album contains a total of eleven vocal tracks (including one without lyrics).  Strictly speaking this is an EP as it contains five Cantonese tracks, one Mandarin number and four Mandarin covers of those same Cantonese songs.  A plus point is that both her Cantonese and Mandarin dictions are fluent.

Most of the works are composed by Uku herself and they lean towards the folk genre.  The first single cum title track "Thinking Of You So Much" is a light-tempo folkish song composed by Uku and written by Huang Wei Wen.  The second single "Happy Back" is a ballad composed by Uku and written by Lin Xi.

The album CD doubles up as a CD Rom which contains a mix of computer utilities such as screen saver, wallpaper and a profile of Uku.

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Now that Eason Chan (or Chen Yi Xun) has left Capital Artists, Edmond Leung (or Liang Han Wen) is technically the No. 1 male artiste in the record company.  Let's hope the record executives won't make a blunder out of Edmond as they did with Eason.  If anything, they have already make the first wrong move in terms of styling (just as in Eason's case).  Edmond looks like a laughing stock on the album cover, wearing his supposedly naked uniform.

In this twelve-track album, his first three singles are all composed by singers.  The title track cum first single "Parental Guidance" is a slow-rock composition of Eason Chan and is written by Huang Wei Wen.  The second single "Searching" is a folkish ballad composed by Nicholas Tse (or Xie Ting Feng) and written by Lin Xi.  The third single "My Fate" is a ballad cover of a Japanese composition by singer/actor Masaharu Fukuyama (or Fu Shan Ya Zhi). 

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