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Album: RED CLIFF ~心・戦~ / RED CLIFF ～Heart, War~ (Buy Album)

Artist: 阿蘭 / alan

Release Date: October 15, 2008

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Blurb

alan, is a Chinese-Tibetan singer who’s recently been gaining the eyes of observant music industry watchers, and thanks to a reader email/comment, I’ll post something about her.

First off, I hadn’t even heard of her before this (I went back and checked the other three singles of her five-element series), but I really like her voice and style - fans of trashy Japanese music (which is also good..) like ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION will probably fall asleep, but other people who appreciate soulful, slow ballads will like it. There’s a time and place for everything. Best of all, she has NO ENGLISH in her songs - you can’t believe how much of a relief that is for me, listening to a J-Pop song. Furthermore, Jay Chou should hire her album cover designer, considering how beautiful it is (and she is)!

Lastly, she sings in both Japanese and Chinese, and sounds perfectly natural in both, an amazing feat. Take a listen!

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