Word: cantos
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...Garden Hotel. I pick out the Hill Bar, tel: (86-20) 8333-3998 ext. 3913, and Gypsy King, tel: (86-20) 8387-5177. Decorated with a Hard Rock Caf? starter kit, the Hill should have been unforgivably cheesy but has a friendly vibe that somehow mixes classic rock and Canto-pop without imploding. The Gypsy King, where the locals come to see and be seen, is bathed in scarlet light and packed with a mixed crowd even on a weeknight, all grooving on the dance floor. I depart for Face, at B/F, International Bank Tower, 191 Dongfeng...
...hair and braces." Mok's happy to admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong music student Mark Lui, who now writes for Canto-pop royalty Kelly Chen and Leon Lai. Together they formed a group that performed on-campus concerts. Johanna Ho recalls the first time she saw Mok perform: "I could hardly recognize her. Suddenly, there she was on stage with curly long hair?she was sex on legs?and I thought...
...music, not movies, that brought Mok back to Hong Kong. She made an album with Lui and was signed by Taiwan's Rock Records, which put out an album that made its own bit of minihistory. In the land of Canto-candy, where head shots of saccharine stars filled record covers, Mok appeared lying face down naked...
...Facing that piece is “Script.” As if one had been able to open a book on the photographed shelf “Script” displays a close up of an excerpted passage from Dante’s Inferno. The excerpt is from Canto IV in which Virgil leads Dante to a garden-like place that is the home of Virgil and other great thinkers of antiquity. “Script” is particularly effective. The letters seem to sit almost on top of the grass, as if they were three-dimensional...
...language. The young generation gets the lyrics because they've had the same experience." Twenty-nine-year-old lyricist and rapper Chan Kwong-yan, a.k.a. M.C. Yan, wants to make music that reflects the way people really talk. "We use a lot of Cantonese street slang in our songs. Canto-pop love songs use written Chinese," says Yan, sliding his hand through the horse's tail of hair that he sometimes wears in his two long signature braids: "We created Canto...