Random Monday : Soothing Jazzy Music from Joanna Wang Ruo Lin (王若琳)’s Start From Here
Discovered this wonderful Taiwanese singer via a link on my friend’s MSN. The three self-penned tracks (Bada Bada, For No Reason, Lost in Taipei) from this 19 year old’s debut album Start From Here are really catchy stuff and definitely perfect for chasing away those dreary Monday blues, even if you’re not exactly into the jazzy loungy stuff like me. For Chinese music fans, she does quie a good English version of David Tao’s Love is Simple - check out I Love You as well as the Chinese versions of her English songs.
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Martin of aomoon.com from which I first heard samples of Joanna Wang’s tracks, is full of praises for her and compares her very favourably to similar artistes like Norah Jones and Sade. Since I’m not familiar with this genre, all I can say that the more memorable tracks - 3. Bada Bada, 5. For No Reason, 2. Lost In Paradise, 1. Let’s Start From Here - are continually swimming in my head right now 
(6. 迷宫 and 8. 有你的快乐 are the Chinese versions of 1. Let’s Start From Here and 2. Lost in Paradise respectively)
Go on, have a listen to the above tracks in the mini-player below or visit aomoon.com if you fancy music like this.
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BTW for those interested in getting these discs, Neon Music which Martin mentioned is a CD importer from SG.
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hey, we got more Joanna stuff in Mizar5…
check the Hey Nineteen chapter
HI Mizar, I added the link to your comment. I think it will make it more convenient for readers to find the stuff
I kept hearing this album over and over in our lab here in Taiwan.. and I thought at first that Norah Jones was the one singing. she’s very good! very soothing voice..
Yep, I have been listening to Bada Bada and For No Reason for the past few weeks and I’m still haven’t got sick of it, which is a very good thing
joanne wang has really dxmn nice voice!!