best cd of the month

janice wai lan - good music with good looks to boot

it is quite unprecedented - i have been spinning this cd non-stop since the day i bought it in HK.

janice's (chinese name: wai lan) voice has a way to penetrate my inner soul. the kind of husky voice that seems to have a perpetual flu on it. it is so raw, so sexy and sensuous to my discerning ears. since the launch of this debut album, everyone has been talking about janice in HK.

janice, an eurasian with a chinese descent who is based in HK, is the protege of leon lai and his ace producer mark lui. janice covers all leon's hits with a new twist - the songs are penned in english lyrics and all rearranged into jazz and r&b. refreshing and invigorating. those tired of soulless audiophile singers should now listen to real singer singing real music.

the recording is nothing to shout about (tho' it is DSD) but the music is the reason you buy this cd. i saw so many chinese audiophile cds in HK selling for only RM22 each, i didn't buy any because i am seriously tired of those stale chinese audiophile singers. and yet i bought 4 copies of janice to give them to all my close friends.

you may have to wait for another few months before this arrives in malaysia (if at all). if you do have friends in s'pore, ask them to get it for you there.

for me, this is simply delicious pop.