Thursday August 24, 2006 Hong Kong Leo Ku Sings About the Stages of Life Leo's new Cantonese album <Human 我 生> is to be released these few days. The production crew remains unchanged as previous albums, with Jan Lamb as art director and 夏 永 康 as photographer. At an art exhibition opening ceremony yesterday, Leo talked about their trip to Japan earlier on. As the upcoming album talks about Life, the crew wanted a natural background in order to give a refreshing feeling to the soul, and hence they chose 日光瀑布 (a waterfall in Japan) as the photography spot. The recording company found an adorable Japanese toddler and a senior citizen to take pictures with Leo, so as to represent three different stages in life. Leo said," The kid is very cute, he has natural curly locks, just like 小 吉 (the character in IQ Professor). How nice it would be if I could have a child like him in future." On the day of photoshooting, the kid's parents and grandparents came along to accompany him. The crew took off early in the morning at 6am as the ride from city to the waterfall requires 2 hours. Tired due to the long journey, the small boy cried upon arrival, while Leo had to cheer him up. Unexpectedly, the boy's father carried him suddenly and threw the boy in the air, and even made him do stunts like hanging upright. The boy immediately laughed hysterically, Leo, on the other hand, was left gaping in awe. Thereafter Leo had to use a piece of cake (which was his breakfast) as bait to lure the kid, only then he 'compromised' to play with Leo. Leo joked," I just realised 小 吉 doesn't like to eat metal but cakes." He added," I hope this album serves as an enlightenment to my listeners. The first song <我 生> represents the birth of a baby, while the last song is titled <往生> (translate: Past Life), the songs in between talk about different feelings in different stages of life." credits: leoku.cc, asianfanatics.
