In September 2022, King of Golden Songs Cao Ge posted another surprise film. This time, he was crazy about Cantonese songs! In the new album "I'm a Crazy Song" (Rolling Stone 40 Cantonese Selection), Cao Ge chose 20 Cantonese pop songs that had a profound influence on him and re-enacted them. Each song sang Cao Ge's strong Hong Kong-style complex, and each song was filled with nostalgic feelings. 5 songs were released every week, recreating famous songs from Hong Kong.
In the long history of Chinese pop music , there is a sound that is particularly memorable. Her name is "Cantonese pop song". Cantonese pop songs were born in Hong Kong, the "Pearl of the East" and bring together various musical sources such as Mandarin pop songs, European and American pop songs and Cantonese opera minor tunes. They are sung in Cantonese , following the economic takeoff of Hong Kong in the 1970s, and the classic works have been circulated for a while.
Cantonese pop songs have either beautiful or fiery and dynamic melody, or ancient and elegant or lively lyrics. The content of the song ranges from men and women to family and country feelings, and is compatible with elements and trends from all over the world in style. It also naturally has the rhythmic beauty of up to nine tones of Cantonese, creating a special pop culture. In the era of rapid economic development in Hong Kong, Cantonese popular songs broke through the barriers of language, drifted across thousands of mountains and rivers, sang in every corner of the world, and had influence everywhere where Chinese people live and live. Hong Kong's Cantonese pop songs, together with Hong Kong-made movies and Hong Kong-made TV series, use the loudest "Made in Hong Kong" label to make hundreds of millions of Chinese people around the world fall in love with them and go crazy about them.
Cantonese pop songs have such a far-reaching influence, and naturally they are popular with Malaysian , making Cao Ger, who was born and raised in Malaysia, fall in love with him and crazy. Cao Ge's ancestral home is Taishan, Guangdong. To him, Cantonese is originally a local accent, so he has a deep relationship with Cantonese pop songs since he was a child. Born in 1979, Cao Ge grew up with Cantonese pop songs in the 1980s and 1990s. From Leslie Cheung , Danny Chan , Jacky Cheung , Jacky Cheung to Anita Mui , Sang-wen Ye , Faye Wong , Sammi Cheng , Sammi Cheng , Ye Liyi , Chen Huixian , Guan Shuyi to Tai Chi Band, Ekin Cheng, Twins, each of them has the most Cantonese songs and the classics of Cantonese songs accompanied Cao Ge through youth and youth, deeply in his memory. It not only became an emotional sustenance, but also helped him a lot in his own music creation and singing career.
In 2022, Cao Ge finally decided to release his own popular Cantonese classic album, re-translated these songs of life that once made him crazy in his unique way. Cao Ge started to be exposed to Cantonese songs from TV series and movies since he was a child, and accompanied his childhood. It can be said that these classic Cantonese songs became the enlightenment of his singing career in the future. The selection of songs for this album once made Cao Ge very worried because there were too many beloved Cantonese songs, and the choice of song lists became a big problem. The size of 10 songs in a traditional album is completely impossible to satisfy his love for Cantonese pop songs . After careful selection over and over again, Gor Ger finally selected 20 perfect works of Cantonese pop songs that he thought were irreplaceable. Under the day and night polishing of Gorge, musicians and other music partners, these 20 Cantonese songs familiar to fans are presented with a new look of Gorge's personal style, and finally formed the album "I'm a Crazy Song".
"I'm a Crazy Song" album is recorded in the form of live recording, recorded in the recording studio in a live performance, and cooperates with the musicians to show their super high music control ability, making 20 Cantonese classics come to the ears of the audience. The album is implemented to the highest standards in recording technology, adopting a high fidelity sampling rate of 96K/24Bits, and all are recorded using real instruments. The recorder selects different equipment and wires to match them according to the respective characteristics of each instrument, striving to faithfully restore every detail.This time, the album "I'm a Singer" also added the industry's highest-standard Dolby Atmos Music recording version, which has greatly improved the breadth, fullness and sense of liveness. The album "I'm a Singer" will also release the vinyl record version. In addition to using the same technology as the above digital end, vinyl also invites Christoph Stickel, a mastering engineer from CS Mastering, who has a very high reputation in the audio fever industry and numerous awards, to make vinyl exclusive mastering (the vinyl mastering of the recently popular "John Williams in Vienna" and "John Williams Across Stars" is written by this master). The sound of the entire album appears more transparent and refined on vinyl, and can satisfy the picky and sensitive ears of Guangdong fans who have always been known for their love of "fever".
