This is my not-so-introduction post.  I'm not going to tell you that much about myself, except that if you're looking for an Asian lover, I'm not your type because I'm not Asian, Caucasian geek that I am.  If you're looking at the avatar and thinking what a cute Asian guy I am, you should know that the guy in my avatar is really a Taiwanese pop ( Read more... )

This post is just a continuation of the Hung Jung compilation I started posting here.  Sorry I hadn't gotten around to posting the rest for so long. :$

Tracklist:

CD 2
01. 人生
02. 夢追酒
03. 媽媽歌星
04. 鴛鴦酒杯
05. 星夜的離別
06. 春夢不了情
07. 思鄉的人 (榕樹下)
08. 新娘悲歌
09. 水車姑娘
10. 他鄉思妻兒
11. 山頂鋸柴夫
12. 流浪吉普賽姑娘
13. 五月花
14. 懷春曲
15. 中山北路走七擺

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This is the first part of a compilation of Taiwanese folk songs performed by one of Ang It-Hong's sons, Hung Jung (洪荣宏).  YesAsia has quite a few of his albums, but I couldn't find a lot of downloads for them on the Internet.

Why Hung Jung?  I was watching a Taiwanese TV variety show hosted by Jacky Wu and Patty Hou and he was on a certain episode ( Read more... )

I posted a short bit on Ang It-Hong's death here earlier this year.  Since his death, his sons Eric Hung and Hung Jung helped put together an album commemorating his songs with the help of various pop artists.  The album contains new songs inspired by Ang It-Hong, such as "阿爸" ("Father") written by Jay Chou and Vincent Fang.  (This report notes ( Read more... )

This is a collection of Chinese folk songs.  I checked YesAsia and couldn't find it there, but this album on Amazon may be of interest if you like these songs.  There are various artists, but these are not recent covers.

01 大坂城的姑娘
02 康定情歌
03 在那遥远的地方
04 太阳出来照白岩
05 走西口
06 阿拉木汗
07 蝴蝶泉边
08 蓝花花
09 绣荷包
10 美丽的姑娘
11 小河淌水
12 花在尕妹
13 茉莉花
14 送情郎
15 吐鲁番的葡萄熟了

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I'm sorry I haven't posted anything and I'm also sorry for everyone on my F-list:  I haven't been keeping up with anything posted in the last few weeks, so if I missed something major (e.g. Fusion finally put out a second album), please tell me!  (No, they didn't to my knowledge, so hopefully you didn't just read out-of-context and run around your ( Read more... )

I posted one of his Mandarin compilations earlier, so you can find it under the "Maoshan Lee" tag if you missed it.

Recently, I've probably been watching too much Taiwanese TV. XD A couple of the shows I watch have quite a bit of Taiwanese/Hokkien in them:  "百万大歌星" and "王牌大明星."  The former is a contest in which various singers try to remember lyrics ( Read more... )

No, this isn't a newcomer who has just released his first album.  This is an old album released back in 1985.  Junrong hasn't released an album in quite a while, but he did give Jay Chou his chance to release an album.  (This was a really good decision!)  He's also the other J and the R in JVR Music, the company founded by Jay Chou, Vincent Fang, ( Read more... )

My CDs didn't make it here until I was away, so I didn't get to listen to them on my trip.  (I also didn't buy any CDs on vacation because I never went to a store that actually sold CDs and even if I had, I was tight on money.)  I'm sure someone's posted this album on LJ by now, but I hope I mention something that no one else knew before about this ( Read more... )

I saw Shadya on an episode of "Azio Superstar" recently promoting this album and then I found it on Indievox, so I bought it.  She not only has a nice voice but she also writes songs.  She wrote both the music and the lyrics to every song on this album.  Katncandix appeared on the same episode to promote "再见王子" ("Goodbye Prince") because they're on ( Read more... )