For one who loves music wherever I am, it pains me to write that my car aerial has snapped off! Cut down in it's prime by a stressed driver who has entered their own driveway a thousand times and not once been too close to the hedge. The driver was me, had so much on my mind I carelessley catapualted into my driveway and as my car went forward, my aerial got stuck on a branch in the hedge and did not follow. It gets repaired at I know not what cost ['well, we have to take your wheel off then we have to . . . .']on Wednesday.
So unable to train my ears to an interupted radio signal I put on whatever is to hand from the CD's wedge into my little CD box between the front seats. And I had plenty of time to cover 7 tracks as the Monday traffic did not dissapoint.
The CD is ALVE by Chinese singer Sa Dingding. It took a little while to get use to but it is beautiful in parts and dynamic in others and quite unique. She brings together Chinese folk songs [most of the tracks have a snippet of an original old recording of each song] and Western techno and pop together and it works. Her voice sounds like the typical Chinese stringed instrument of which I have no idea what it's called but she soon hooks you in.
I also have no idea what she is singing about as all the lyrics are in Chinese - which is only correct but the booklet contained in the CD case have high gloss photo's and the lyrics to each song but again in Chinese. Obviously marketed for Western sales, it would have helped to have some translations. So to help you here is one of the songs chorus:
San Go Na Jia No
A GoNa Jia Na
A Na Nei
Sang Go Na Jia No
A Go Na Jia Ja
A Na Yi Yiu Na Yi Yiu
In all seriousness I am going to label this CD a keeper and am already on my 2nd hearing. You may not want to consider this album but you can get a free listening to a lot of it on her impressive website:
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