Continue from before:

Hostess:"............ in terms of music, you have got your own team of people. How you treat your own voice, or how to select which voice. All of it is your own taste of music, your own training/conditioning and preference. Is all from you, not based on outside reference.
Also what you mentioned before is the accumulation of sentiments. All the ups and downs. You said this is all accumulated over the past 10 years."

Denise" Yes, what you said earlier is very true. This album cannot be based on following some reference. That won't work. Also, the composition of the team is quite interesting.
Bing Ho is like me. He has been listening to Anita's songs since he was young. I have been listening to the songs, so he was forced to listen to them. (BeepBeep's comment: I am not sure what Denise is referring to ? Is this person a family member of Denise Ho?) He is very familiar with the songs. So there is burden there. He and I are both very sensible people, but we have got Alex Fung, who is totally not familiar with Mui-Jei's songs, except may be the most classic ones.
This song list does have some songs that are quite side-tracked. He doesn't know them and he does not carry any burden. He doesn't need to think about how to make them different.
Is all based on his own feelings. Of course I chatted with him a lot, or he chatted with me a lot. He tried to understand the background of this CD, what I would like to achieve.
What's the special meaning for me behind a particular song. He gathered and merged together all the different emotions, sentiments, all the broken pieces and translated that into music.

The chemical reaction among the three of us is very interesting.
The sensibilities are there, and also the sensitivities and emotions as well. I am very grateful to both of them, because during the process (of recording this album) I was stressed to the point of going crazy. They made me feel confident and calmed me down.

Thanks so much Beep-Beep for all your work on this! This is a really good interview. It is really interesting, if you follow the HOCC fan chatter, to realize that her young fans don't know Anita first hand and don't really care, because they're HOCC's fans, but express a respect for Anita because HOCC loves her. So HOCC is carrying Anita forward into the future, because no one else is, and because she is equipped to do so like no one else. Anita is absolutely unique, entertaining an audience at an age when the rest of us could barely go to the toilet by ourselves; contrast with Denise who had a normal upbringing and family and schooling.

Ho Bing is Denise's older brother. He plays the keyboards in her band, he and her sang a duet to their mom in her 2009 concert. He does a lot of behind the scenes musical writing and production work, sort of like Anthony Lun.
Her mom was reportedly seen helping sell t-shirts and greet fans at her concert. Contrast with another brother and mom.

I just finished watching her new concert (4 DVD's !). I liked her music in the 2009 concert better, but the chief feature of the new concert is how relaxed and happy Denise looks. She looks really different, and confident. It's really something to see, almost like Anita is looking out of Denise's eyes for a second and winking at us.

I learned that Denise has another idol besides Anita, the amazing Japanese woman Shiina Ringo. She doesn't tour outside Japan and no one else I know has even heard of her; I will be forever grateful to HOCC, if not for her I would never have learned that Shiina Ringo exists. This translated bio is worth reading:

http://forums.electricmole.net/showthread.php?t=212

If you're interested search on YouTube for Shiina Ringo, Ringo Shiina, Tokyo Jihen (name of her band). Her outstanding strength is as a writer.

I think you will find that there is as much of Ringo in HOCC as Anita. It's just a jaw-dropping family tree of musical intelligence. I'm so jealous!! Maybe Shiina Ringo is sort of HOCC's Momoe Yamaguchi?

Thanks again for your good work!