Sometimes The Great Yoga Sometimes Speaking In Tongues - Yoga Selects Live
Yoga Lin
Fans who missed Taiwanese singer Yoga Lin’s post-military service comeback gig at the Esplanade on Feb 3 will want to buy this release with a mouthful of a title. It is a collection of tunes from two of his tours, 2014’s Speaking In Tongues and the ongoing The Great Yoga.
Several are covers that were also performed in Singapore, including a loose-limbed take on British band Blur’s cheeky headbanger Song 2 and a persuasive version of singer-songwriter Sandee Chan’s Useless Umbrella.
There is also plenty of material here that would be new to those who were at the Esplanade concert.
He covers the late Chang Yu-sheng’s Missing You and singer-songwriter Cheer Chen’s Little Dust, leaving his distinctive personal stamp on each interpretation.
His own hits get new leases of life with different arrangements, such as the use of the vocoder to give Runaway Mama more of an electro- dance feel.
Another surprise here is the English track, Never Been In Love Before, better known as the title song off his third album, Perfect Life (2011).
One of the more compelling live albums in recent memory.
(ST)