After Graduation, Is There Life? Morrie겠어.

If you got that awful pun above, my god, hats off to you. After three months I came back to this blog, because I honestly missed it. Amongst the frenzy of after graduation planning, I had forgotten about the Jukebox. But I don't want to forget about the Jukebox. There are so much memory, and so much joy that I left here! Therefore, today I moved on and accepted that I could not live without looking for new music, especially K-indie. So here goes another round of searching, and I pray I stick to my plan this time!

Morrie: born 1985, debuted in 2010, and has released three albums since. One album per year, and just from that I can see how dedicated she is.

What really grabbed at me first, was her voice. Soft, almost tickles my ears, and just flows very naturally. She is not overly exerting herself at any point, and becomes one with her singing. Try her music out first with this one.

The calm guitar melody just lets her voice seep into the music, and in the end you have this really comfortable feeling that makes you crave for more. Now you might know, if you've been here with me for the past year, you would know that I always have good music up. But seriously, I feel that Morrie ups the bar this time. A perfect artist to start off my new beginning.

This song I especially like. Particularly due to the horn section that gives a different spice to this song than her other songs, let alone other indie acoustic songs. The level of polyphony she achieves in the above song is truly remarkable.

Now you may ask, why is she wholly singing in English? The answer is that it's a Korean song. Korean songs nowadays will almost all the time have English. Point is though, with Morrie, I think the fact that it is English works perfectly as it would have if she was singing in Korean. Because here, she doesn't sing for the lyrics. She is singing for the music, as if her part is merely a gear in the entire mechanism that forms the music, and her voice just naturally glides along amongst the other instruments. And with her, you simply need to take in the music, and enjoy it as something unified, and wholly-made. In other words, just sit back and relax.

In closing, I shall leave you off with something that sounds very lively and makes you want to bounce around like a little princess, as I am doing now. I feel that it's a perfect song for the fresh start that I am making myself today. Enjoy!

It's going to be a K-Pop Christmas

All right, I'll be honest. I don't really listen to K-pop. I like K-indie, K-rock, K-other stuff, but don't really pay attention to K-pop. There are a lot of songs that I like though. I like 2NE1, I enjoy SNSD from time to time, not for their legs but their songs, and I'll turn to other K-pop bands if I enjoy the music. Being Christmas and all, I decided that I would look for some Christmas-themed K-pop songs.

Starting with this one:

I only know two people from this combo. Si-kyung and Hyo-Shin. That's pretty much about my K-pop knowledge for me. But this is a pretty cozy song with a nice combination of various singers (and a rapper).

Up next is Sweet Sorrow, a four member a capella vocal group.

I do have to admit, this is really cute. And gosh they're so adept with their voices. I give applause to their ability to harmonize into such vocal richness.

Next are some big names among Korean singers. Kim Bum Soo, and Lena Park.

I'm not even going to comment on how good that is.

Anyways, I was surprised to find original Christmas songs from K-pop. Often artists just rehash old carols, but Koreans are awfully inventive. Hope you found these cozy enough to get you into the holiday spirit.