Karen莫文蔚, leaves us with her "L!VE"《拉活》(2007), an experimental between euro-electro-pop and traditional pop crossover. This didn't achieve a big sales, but earn her the biggest honour, a best album award from Golden Melody Award, Taiwan. "L!VE"《拉活》(2007) was her last album with a commercial record company and Karen invested to make this record in order to gain the maximum creativity control. She had successful widen our expectation upon her musically and visually.
Althought she mention she probably won't release another mandarin album, but in fact she is searching and experimenting a better musical sense to satisfeid her desire in music and outdoing her previous works. This is probably same for artists reaching their maturity in the career. Back in 2005, when she was invited to perform in China, and she was ask to sing a folk song which to her surprise it was something new as she wasn't grow up in listening to chinese folk song. She pulls out (as suggested by the hosts) 打起手鼓唱起歌(Claps Your Hands & Sing) and perform beautiful and impressed the audiences. Folk songs caught her attention from that time onwards. Her guest performance in The Golden Melody Award 08 show, had took her a higher level when she cross-over GREEN MOUNTAIN《高山青》、MOUNT A-LI'S GIRLS 《阿里山的姑娘》into her old song, FAN DANCE (扇子舞). The result surprise the audience again and to tribute that event, she recorded it into this track call GREEN MOUNTAIN STILL STANDING TALL, 《青山在》。
In 70s to early 90s, Manda-pop is famously riding by the folk wave which they call Min-Ge民歌，(Folk Songs). The fresh breath of musics can match up to country songs as in the Westerns. Karen took some classic hits form the past century, added a new twists with just not re-arranging the songs, adding new tunes, and fused it up with western basonova, electric-pop and euro latest arrangment elements to give the freshest and latest vision to audience. This digital album BACK TO KAREN《回蔚》means memories revisit, a cover version album. To me its more like a new album with hints of old songs tunes. The songs she cover is very daring, which I think its takes a lot of talent to pull it right. Karen has it all.
The production team of this album can describe as the strongest in chinese music history, after the great response from previous collabrations of TIGHT FLOW 《密流》 with Zhang Ah Dong張亞東, Faye Wong's all time producer, they teamed up again to produce this album, with the help of award-winning and favourtie lyrist, 李焯雄(Lee), they built up new tunes & lyrics into the classic and give it a modern/futuristic twist.
This album is Karen's 1st digital album on China server, www.12530.com. She explained that the physical form of album releases era is over, and now its time to a new level. (I felt sad upon this decision as I prefer holding the CD)
Tracklist【專輯曲目】：
01.打起手鼓唱起歌 Claps Your Hands & Singdownload
02.青山在 Green Mountain Still Standing Talldownload
03.在那遙遠的地方 At Far Away Places
04.外面的世界 World Outside
05.月圓花好 Blossom Full Moon
06.風從那裡來 Where Wind Blows
07.半個月亮爬上來 Cresant Moon Climbs
08.溜溜的情歌 Cheeky Love Songs
09.茉莉花 Jasmine
10.紅 Red
11.密流 Tight Flow
12.密流(Remix) download
Most tracks covered had been a classic since I'm small, now a re-live of the classic had remind me this album can live up to Shirley Kwan's EX Favourites. To me it will be the 3rd best cover album in chinese pop history.
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