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Track Listings
| 1. Old Dreams |
| 2. Please Allow Me To Look At You Again |
| 3. The Mad World |
| 4. The Wall |
| 5. If I'm Without You |
| 6. Night In Shanghai |
| 7. Where Is My Home |
| 8. Songstress On The Edge Of Heaven |
| 9. I Wait For Your Return |
| 10. Pretense |
| 11. The Moon In The Street |
| 12. The Wall |
| 13. Please Allow Me To Look At You Again (instr.) |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In case you take the title to be some kind of a postmodernist joke, The Edge of Heaven is exactly what it claims to be: a selection of melodies popularised by the singers Bai Kwong and Chow Hsuan, stars of the Chinese and Hong Kong film musical in the 1940s and 50s, and here reinterpreted in arrangements by the guitarist Gary Lucas, either as instrumentals or with vocals in Mandarin by Celest Chung or Gisburg. This is an exotic script for a Western musician to follow, but Lucas, who reveals himself in the notes as a longtime admirer of the genre, makes it enchantingly readable, particularly in solo pieces such as "Old Dreams" and "Pretense", where his open-tuned guitar infuses the melodies, already intriguing hybrids of Eastern and Western musical idioms, with faint scents of the blues and the American Vernacular style of John Fahey or Leo Kottke. --Tony Russell
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