''Eastern Energy'' is an album by

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. It consists of fourteen songs in a sort of modernized

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form on one audio CD and a

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featuring the video for the song "Freedom" and other material. It was released on Platia 72438-64515-0-7 in 2004. This album is also considered as the debut album in USA. It debuted at #62 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The track "New Classicism" is a modern-day medley of Symphony No. 40 in G Minor by

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, Symphony No. 5 in C Minor by

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, and the overture to ''

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'' by

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. "Freedom" is a remake of Santuri Ethem Efendi's Şehnaz Longa. "Clocks" is an innovative version of the

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song of the same name and "Only Time" a cover of the single by

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. "Reel Around the Sun" is from the

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dance performance particularly popular in the late 1990s.

Track listing

# "Miracle" # "

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" (cover of "Clocks" by Coldplay) # "Liu San Jie" (based on a Chinese story of a girl who became a fairy) # "

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" # "Freedom" (Santuri Ethem Efendi: Şehnaz Longa) # "Shangri-La" (from James Hilton's novel and the city of Beijing) # "Reel Around The Sun" (Riverdance) # "A Girl's Dream" # "Forbidden City" (From James Hilton's novel and the city of Beijing) # "The Great Valley" # "Alamuhan" # "Mountains and Rivers" # " Only Time" (cover of "Only Time" by Enya) # "New Classicism" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor & Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony No. 5 in C Minor)

References

2004 albums Twelve Girls Band albums {{2004-album-stub