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Artist: Celestial 天上

Album Title: Electric Road 電器道

Full Track Listing and Credits:


  • 1. Kowloon, Hong Kong 九龍, 香港
    (Alfons S. Garcia)
    Published by Emi Music Publishing Hong Kong

    Vocals: May Chan
    Lead Guitar:  Eugene Pao

    The first song on the album and only cover version, “Kowloon, Hongkong” (a sixties hit for Barbara Pan, but also performed by Irene Ryder, amongst others), started life as an extended 12 minute Ambient Bossa Nova opus for the art exhibition curated by Hong Kong artist anothermountainman (a.k.a. Stanley Wong), entitled “Red, White & Blue”, featuring artworks made from the ubiquious Asian plastic fabric. For this album it was slowed down some more, and given the Celestial ambient dub treatment (of course). Like waking from a dream, and trying to hold on to the feeling...

  • 2. Ghost Town 鬼域
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Erhu: Hsin Hsiao Hung
    Trombone: Nigel Wightman

    Possibly inspired by The Specials “Ghost Town” though the bassline owes more to ”The Selector”, b-side to the first Specials 45. It could be about the concreting of Hong Kong...

  • 3. Another Planet 黑暗行星
    (Peter Millward, Antonius Chen, John Griffiths)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Mandarin Rap: Antonius Chen
    Rap Cymraeg: John Griffiths
    Chorus Vocals: May Chan
    Erhu: Hsin Hsiao Hung

    What are the words of this piece about? Disappearance. People disappear from sight, right in front of our eyes every day, and of course no-one notices. Perhaps...

  • 4. Electric Road 電器道
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    We are all robots...

  • 5. Dead Ahead 一路向前
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Vocals: Adrian Da Silva
    Guitar: Eugene Pao

    Not about driving down a desert highway - that would be far too obvious now, wouldn't it? What do the words mean to you?

  • 6. Blue Pool 藍塘
    (Sunny Yeung, Eugene Pao, Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Shakuhachi: Sunny Yeung
    Guitar: Eugene Pao

    An improvisational collision of Shakuhachi, and Guitar, in a deep, blue pool...

  • 7. The Deep Blue Sea 藍海深處
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Vocals: Mariella Gonzalez
    Koto: Fukuhara Sawako

    Again, not actually about being at the bottom of the sea - so find your own subaqueous world in the words...

  • 8. Lhasa Express 直達拉撒
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    There is a train that goes from Beijing to Lhasa now. Is it a good thing?

  • 9. The Crossing 奈何橋
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Koto: Fukuhara Sawako 琴: 福原 左和子

    A confluence of '80s house, Philip Glass and Japanese Koto.

  • 10. Green Island 綠島
    (Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Shakuhachi: Sunny Yeung
    Erhu: Hsin Hsiao Hung

    Can you imagine what this island must have looked like?

  • 11. ThreeValleys 三谷
    (Trad. Arr. Sunny Yeung, Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Shakuhachi: Sunny Yeung

    A traditional Japanese Shakuhachi piece.

  • 12. Mika's Song 海香の歌
    (Trad. Arr. Peter Millward)
    Published by Drum Music Limited

    Sampled from a music box, given to Mika (Pete's daughter) shortly after her birth, to celebrate her first Doll Festival (おひなまつり）in March 2007.

All other instruments, arrangement, production, mixing and sleeve design by Peter Millward, at Drum Music, Hong Kong. Chinese song titles thanks to Antonius Chen.

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