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OH! FORMOSA

Art Designer:Shout Visual Studio
Photographer:Xie Chun-De
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Music Type︰Taiwan Traditional Folk
Language︰Taiwanese
Producer︰Chang43
Artists︰Chen Shui-bian.....
Price:NTD 350

 

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**Taiwan President's Music Album ...

 

Listening / Program

01

Treasure Our child \  Luo Wen-Jia 

 

02

Couple's pillow / Chen Shui-bian  *Taiwan President 2000-2008

 

03

Dusk homeland / Zhuang Qi-Ming

 

04

Sad city / Chen Yong-Xing

 

05

Lead my hands / LI Jia-Ping

 

06

Political way / Hsieh Chang-Ting  *Taiwan Prime Minister (Befor)

 

07

I Get back to hometown / Chen Ying-Can

 

08

Admire person / Li Ying-Yuan

 

09

Guest request / Lin Wen-Yi

 

10

Eternal melody / Chen Jing-Ju

11

Dusk homeland / Instrument

 

Introduction

This commemorative album, produced by members of the Taiwan democracy movement, was first released in 1996, at the time of Taiwan's first democratic presidential election. It includes performances by Taiwan's current president, Chen Shui-bian, Kao-Hsuing City Mayor Hsieh Chang-ting, and other members of the DPP. However, at the time of the album's release, the DPP's fortunes were on the decline, and the album languished, becoming little more than an obscure novelty. In March 2000, Chen Shui-bian was elected the 10th president of Taiwan. In May, a TVBS report re-introduced the album to a large and newly receptive audience. As the TVBS report pointed out, this album is more than just a random collection of songs. The featured politicians chose songs that represented their thoughts and feelings of the time; taken as a whole, the album is a memorial of the struggles, hopes, and sorrows of an epoch.

 

Artists

The President's a Hunk
.. From TIME ASIA

All along, we thought taiwanese President and dpp leader Chen Shui-bian's rise to political prominence was due to his steely competence. This was a man, his smug eagerness and wire-frame spectacles seemed to say, who could solve Taiwan's problems as easily as he performed differential calculus. He never actually wore a slide rule in his pocket, but we knew it was there, in spirit at least, close to his heart. Two years and a few gdp contractions later, that aura of can-do confidence has been chipped away and we are left wondering, why, exactly, did voters grant his dpp a solid legislative win two weeks ago?

One word: sex. A recent rerelease by TCM of the 1996 11-song dpp compilation Oh! Formosa packages Chen the sex symbol rather than Chen the A-student. The handsome, well-coiffed A Bian—make that Ahhhhh!-Bian—is posed on the cover, emanating halos of mojo, windbreaker coolly unzipped, hands hitched smugly in his low-slung slacks. As he warbles Lover's Pillow in his adenoidal tenor to Casio keyboard accompaniment, it all begins to make sense. The Taiwanese people must have known that inside the mild-mannered technocrat was a musky he-man who—and please, don't make him do it—could arouse the economy with one smoldering glance.

 

Edition Extended

 

 

TCM521

謝長廷  陶笛專輯

 

 

 
[P] 1996 Chang43, Ellen-Chen , Jia-Ping LI , Ying-Can Chen
[C] 2000 TCM - Taiwan Colors Music Co., Ltd. Taiwan.