Album of the Year Personal Pick: I’m so glad to have discovered Kim Sawol. Her music is absolutely beautiful. I can’t express enough how much I love this album, but just take my word for it – you should check it out. Prediction: Considering the circumstances regarding E SENS – his drug abuse and time… Continue reading
It’s KMA season again! I haven’t prepared myself very well this year, but I’m going to try my hand at this guessing thing regardless. The selection committee had a few surprise nominations up their sleeve as always (at least, they were surprising to me), but a couple of those were some of my own favorites… Continue reading
The nominees for the 13th annual Korean Music Awards were announced today at 11am, KST. The nominated albums and songs have been selected from albums and songs released between December 1st 2014 and November 30th 2015. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of… Continue reading
The nominees for the 11th annual Korean Music Awards were announced today at 11am, KST. The Korean Music Awards do not take sales into consideration and the winners are determined by a panel of music critics and industry experts, making it a Korean version of the Grammy’s. This year the ceremony will take place on February… Continue reading
In addition to being featured on Ju Yoon Ha‘s new digital single, bossa nova songstress Hee Kyung Na aka Heena released an album of her own on April 26th. The title is 나를 머물게 하는 and the five covers are based on Kim Hyun Chul‘s “춘천가는 기차” and his Yoon Sang collaboration “사랑하오”, Yoo Jae… Continue reading
Vodka Rain bassist Ju Yoon Ha released his first solo album On The Way Home end of January. On the album was a song called “푸른 봄 : 靑春” (lit. blue spring) featuring bossa nova songstress Hee Kyung Na, and going with the season it was released as a digital single today, May 7th.
Ju Yoon Ha, bassist of Vodka Rain, released his first solo album on January 26th. It is called On The Way Home and was preceded by two digital singles; Hate, released end of November; and 집으로, released mid-December. Both singles contained one song each, but only “집으로” seems to have made it to the album…. Continue reading