It’s vacation peak season in Sweden now and we’ve got the summer heat to justify it. I’m no good with temperatures above 25 degrees Celsius (my comfort zone is somewhere closer to 20) so I actually prefer to work at this time of the year–unlike a typical Swedish home, the office has air condition +… Continue reading
Stunning singer-songwriter Oh Ji Eun will be releasing a new album on May 14th. Coming four years after her second album, compared to the previous albums her third full-length is said to be more pessimistic while still on the theme of love. It includes “누가 너를 저 높은 곳에 올라가도록 만들었을까” from last year’s 이야기해주세요… Continue reading
It’s only a few weeks left till this year’s Grand Mint Festival kicks off and as usual the festival has a focus on the environment through the eARTh campaign. This year’s campaign song was released as a digital single on September 27th, with Joa Band‘s GMF2010 song “북극곰아” updated through a remix by apls‘ DJ Lozik…. Continue reading
Vocal group Sweet Sorrow will release their third full length album, Viva, on December 31st. Willing to share the spotlight with others the quartet has featured a number of guest vocalists for the album, among them Lucid Fall who participates on the song “노래할게”. Also featured on the album, for bonus track “좋겠다”, are Oh… Continue reading
End of last year VOY made a return with new project VOY meet girl. The three member modern rock band debuted with album Fragile in 2006 and followed up with an EP called 쉬어가기 a year later. Since then VOY, led by soundtrack composer and producer Lee Byung Hun, have taken on an acid pop… Continue reading
This article written after an interview with Nina Lee was edited by Philip Gowman and first published on London Korean Links. Over the past few years, Happy Robot has become one of the finest indie labels in Korea. Several of their artists made it to the finals of AVIMA 2009 – Jang Sei Yong even won the instrumental category… Continue reading
refresh_daemon has apparently fallen for the strong vocals and songwriting skills of Oh Ji Eun. Read his review of her first full length album at Init_Music and don’t forget to check out the videos: Inbox: 오지은 – 지은