
Eason在举行他的MOVING ON STAGE演唱会期间,让他的BAND成员每人给他写一首歌,现在大碟终于完成了,歌单已经出来,大碟的名字叫H3M,Eason笑说这张碟的意思就是“好好好卖”,太有才了。我已经听过Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m.和七百年后了,真的是好好好听啊,最主要的是,CY KONG大人这次又有新作品交出啊,期待~~,下面是CY Kong在他的Blog上谈Eason的这张大碟的创作。
HHHM
C.Y.Kong:
Overall Comments:
Original concept started while we were doing the Eason's "Moving On" Tour.
A few members had song demos that suited Eason, and I asked everyone to submit demos to Eason,
and I said to Eason, why not this tour band of yours each write and produce a song for you?COs each of us composes & produces! Eason loved the idea and the project was started.
Recording started end of August 2008, and it took us a full 5 months to finish this album.
During which, a lot of things happened, plus we were still touring.
And finally, in March 2009, we finally saw birth of HHHM!!!
It was supposed to be 11 songs
but our previous band leader, Mr. Pal Sinn, decided not to take part,even tho production had begun on his song.
It's probably the last album we're producing for Eason for the time being.
I feel that he needs to move on and work with other producers -so he can have more variety and explore more grounds!
But before that, my aim for this album was really to bring him back down a bit, a bit more closer back to the mass, since I feel for the last album and compilation album, he had been slightly off track doing songs that were diverting him away from the public. So in a way, this album, sorry that you won't find wild, spooky, outrageous songs, but more ballads, more easy listening songs, with the touches, the heart, the feelings etc -that is, not only just Eason's feelings, but also apply to anyone, everyone!
Some little facts on production on this album:
We tried to incorporate members of the Moving On Tour band to play all the sessions on the album,
unless in cases where it's necessary to use other musicians
(e.g. Acoustic Bass or Strings Session, obviously!).
Also you'll find most songs we have the guitar parts done by different guitarists
(in a normal situation, it'd be only one guitarist dubbing all the parts on a track).
We just want the best for this album, in a way, we've used up every single cent of the production money
(yes, this is our heart and blood, what u get is real musicians, real strings, and all efforts from each and everyone involved!)
Eason sang each song over many vocal sessions. (Fans who waited downstairs until 4am would know!!) Our studio bills r like over 250 hours for just recording vocals!! (Making me very very poor now...!!)
I also called up Mr. Jim Lee, who has been producing Eason's last Mandarin album.
We all love Jim's mixing, and what's better to have Jim mixing all these songs for us!!
And Jim did a great job in handling these songs!! All songs were mixed at
白金录音室 Platinum Studio, Taiwan.
Album Mastering was done in the UK, via Metropolis Studio's iMastering service,
and engineered by Mr. Ian Cooper
(who also mastered albums by Oasis, The Verve, Sting and many others)!!
01 Allegro Opus 3.3 a.m.
Gary Tong's song for Eason. Album opener, and this was the first plugged song.
02 还有什麼可以送给你 Precious Love
Davy's song for Eason.
03 於心有愧 Guilty Conscience
Pam's song for Eason. There's a story behind how we picked this song...
04 今天只做一件事 One Thing Per Day
Joey Tang's song for Eason, which Joey had co-written with Schumann.
05 一个旅人 The Traveller
Pat's song for Eason.
06 七百年后 700 Years Later
Jim Lau's song for Eason. I helped and did the arrangement. This has become the 2nd plugged song. I
It took me, Anthony Sun & Eason a long time to beg, talk, persuade Jim to submit a song!
Finally he did, and I promised him we'd put every effort we got to make this sound great!!
07 Life Goes On
Anthony Sun's song for Eason...
he actually submitted another song,
and we started production on that but Eason still preferred this one!
08 太阳照常升起 The Sun Also Rises
Yin's song for Eason. This is probably Yin's first ever published pop song.
Originally he said he would not write, but maybe works with Eason to co-write. But in the end he submitted this song!
09 不来也不去 Remember When
My song... submitted this very late, cos I was helping Eason on his song.
10 沙龙 Salon
Eason's own song.
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It's been a long time to refresh my blog.
when i first read this article.
i think i should copy it to my blog.....
of cos in english..
The day is approaching and i am still busy.
Now what i really want is to enjoy the album ten times a day...
Certainly i do not exaggerate my action....
Somebody tells me to take a break.
I said I want to take a breathe...
.....
OK.Let;s neglect my own problem..
C.Y says " It's probably the last album we're producing for Eason for the time being.."
So whether i can say this time all of you had made the best one for eason?
I hope this album can make all of you written in the history of pop music...
And I will remember the band for ever...
Good night...