My Album concept,1st song [Cotton Eyed Joe]

Now I am going to share my experience during I am doing my music and while I am in the recording studio...

My album concept is more to fusion style, fusion style it means that a fews style combine in one song. For example, Hip Hop plus Rock plus Jazz and then finally turn into Pop and so on.I started learn harmonica at the age of 14, and during that time, I have listen to a lot of harmonica music. Over 90% harmonica music is harmonica original compositions and classical music. I love both of music genre very much,and during that time I dislike Dance music, especially Techno, Trance and so on..... I feel that Dance music are very anoying......

I study music at the age of 19 after I have graduated from my secondary school, I never knew that the world of music is so huge..... Start from there, I have learn a lot of music knowledge and play around with all my college friends. I started love others music genre, and from there, it influence me a lot on my music thinking..... Started from there, I listen to others music and seldom listen to harmonica music. Such as Jazz, Rock, RnB, Pop, Fusion, Swing, Big Band, Bounce, Techno and so on......

From there, I change my thinking, and I think of why not harmonica music combine with others music style?? So I do a lot of performance and experiment on it. The concept of my album slowly develop. This is my 1st EP album, there are 5 songs inside. The 1st song is Cotton Eyed Joe. This is the Rednex original country dance music, I watched Vanessa Mae live performance DVD at England. She play this song during her concert, I love it so much. Then I started my idea why not I am using 10 holes diatonic (Blues Harp)to play this song?? So I started doing the music programing on this song. I change the style into more techno feel, hahahaha.....It feel more energetic, young, powerfull and futuristic......

During my recording in studio, the first time recording I sue up nearly 4 hours to record this song. Why it take so long?? because me and my sound engineer keep seacrhing for the right harmonica sound for this song. Actually, I have a fews different branding types of harmonica. Althought is the same key, but the characteristic of each harmonica is different.Different characteristic will have different color tone. That's why we use up so many hours to record. But at the end, I felt very tired and the first recording was fail......

The second recording, I use up to 2 hours to finish the recording. Because of the first time recording experience, I use different types of harmonica to record this song. I have use 3 types of 10 holes diatonic harmonica to record this song. Finally, My engineer and me, both of us is so satisfied on the result.

You can listen to the demo here, the whole song is 3 mins 30 second plus, but this demo version is just 1 mins only. It is the starting part of the song.... Hope you will enjoy it and like it....

1 year pass from Taiwan festival, a lot of things happen to me........

I have been long time didn't write in my blog..... actually from last year until now, a lot of things happen to me, although is just 1 year only....... Actually I wish to write it here to share with all of you, not just in my music and harmonica, but also my life style.........

From last year 2006 august, after I have came back from Taiwan harmonica festival, I have learn a lot, not just in harmonica knowledge,but also human life..... Last year when I came back from Taiwan, I am busy on producing my harmonica album... from choosing song, music programming, and studio recording.......

Today I wish to share my life style to all of you, what had happened during this one year time.....

In 2006, December, everybody was so exciting about Christmas....but me.... I don't have any idea about what to do in Christmas, because my relationship between my ex girl friend (which you can see the photo in my blog on the Taiwan 1st day trip)and I turn into dead road..... A lot of people were curious, why it will happened such things to us? I just can say nothings wrong with others people, is just our ambition, our goal, our future plan and thinking have a big gap between both of us. We broke up at the begining year of 2007, by that time, I didn't have any mood to continue my music journey. Upset and down mood always stay with me. Luckly, I stil have a lot of people comfort me and give me encouragement. From there, I slowly learn how to stand up and keep continue on my music journey......

Because in July 2007, I have a show in UCSI, which is my music college. So I start my music journey again, and keep producing my album. From that time, my life style is almost everyday stay in studio, sometimes we start recording at 2am in the morning..... Hahahahaha..... its very fun.... I know you wil ask : "why you want to do recording in that time? It's not good for healhty". If I can choose, I will choose in the morning or afternoon time. But I don't have choice, Because in day time I need to work.

I have learn a lot of knowledge during my recording.... is not an easy task to finish this EP. From that time I also getting know a lot of people. All of them are so helpfull and kindest. Crossfire is a modern singing band, Jim Loo is the guitarist in that band. He play guitar on my EP, which is The Flight Of Bumble Bees, as u can hear it at the second repeat of this song. He is so cool.... He burn up all the bumble bees..... Kari, is the arranger, composer, bassis and singer in that band. His knowledge on music arrangement is fantastic, he is so kind and funny. Work with him you won't get boring and will always laugh..... My producer and recording engineer, Kevin, and he have a partner Jacky. both of them also help me a lot in terms of technique support and others support. Their mixing is super execellent.

From there I also start getting know another person, her name is Celeste, which is my girl friend recently, she is a nurse. Because my EP need to write down all the scrips in both chinese and english, so she is handle chinese part and the english part is handle by Kevin girl friend, Chy Fen. Celeste always give me good encouragement and always there to support me. From that time, I starting notice this girl.

Finally, we manage to finished all the hard works and sending my master copy to print out. I want to thanks all of them... without their hard work and coropration, my EP won't be so wonderful........




This is Crossfire member, the one who stand behind with long hair, is Jim Loo. very good in playing guitar. The one who wear specticle with dark green shirt, is Mr. Kari. He is super genius, from music arrangment, playing bass, piano, singing, graphic design and animations.... Wow.... super star..hehehe....





She is my girl friend Celeste.... she is very good in writing, she keep helping and encourage me. I will keep my music journey along with her........

This is my new EP cover......... There are 5 songs inside my EP. Cotton Eyed Joe, Carmen FanDyssey, Meditations, The Flight Of Bumble Bees, and Norturne Bb- No. 9.