Karen Mok @ Somewhere I Belong

Karen Mok tried so hard to fulfill her dream by producing this first English jazz album with  blends of musical cultures from the East and West by showing her other talents in playing the classical Chinese instruments like Gu Zheng. Honestly, we admire Mok's brave guts in making this album work but unfortunately the poor and unstable thin vocals really were the disaster for this album. There were a couple of notes Mok can't really sing it out loud but to fake it and merely sound like out of tune. This only brings torture to our ears and the producers who could tolerate this and consider giving it a pass shall also be punished. Mok lost the her charm signing in such manners and trying to copy Stacey Kent and perhaps Ella Fitzgerald's style of singing but only leads to disappointment. The idea of creating a unique jazz album that crossing the cultural barriers and integrating different genres of music across different continents may be a little too greedy before the vocal was even being considered the most important things for all singers. This album is rather a disappointed attempt, out of Mok's previous 15 albums being released that won her some real good recognition but this one doesn't really work for us!