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RELEASESCREDITS01. Run, Ran, Run
작곡 / 이상경 양금, 북, 쉐이커 / 이상경 실로폰, 징, 꽹과리 / 손민주 심벌, 플로우탐, 꽹과리 / 김하경 베이스기타 / 최장군(객원) 02. Plankton 작곡, 편곡 / 속속곳 작사 / 강예신 보컬 / 강예신 해금 / 선지우 건반 / 손지윤 라이브일렉트로닉스 / 신예훈 03. 쾌지나 칭칭(ching ching) 나네 원곡 / 경상도 민요 ‘쾌지나 칭칭나네’ 작곡 / bob(송지훈, 한승규, 김예슬, 홍서연, 이수완) 작사 / 이수완 드럼 / 송지훈 베이스 / 한승규 건반 / 김예슬 해금 / 홍서연 보컬 / 이수완 04. 청청도드리 靑淸 작곡 / 김다은 피아노 / 김다은 해금 / 유수민 대금 / 박수현 25현가야금 / 김지연 대아쟁 / 김다인 피리 / 이아영 장구 / 곽아영 꽹과리, 심벌 / 김주호 05. 이판사판 작사, 작곡 / 황진영 편곡 / 김지은, 김하은, 박지수 소리 / 이예지 타악기 / 김지은 해금 / 김하은 피리, 태평소 / 조성민 일렉기타 / 박지수 베이스기타 / 황진영 06. 어-허굿짜 작사, 작곡 / 박주화 보컬 / 김송지 피리, 징 / 이찬우 바이올린 / 최석환 타악 / 김윤만 피아노 / 박주화 07. 상여가 실은 청춘 작곡 / 김세움, 김진솔 작사 / 김진솔 소리 / 강은비, 김진솔, 신예주 건반 / 김세움 피리 / 최태훈 아쟁 / 오하림 타악(장구) / 정겨레 타악(퍼커션) / 송대의 08. 아랑가 원곡 / 밀양아리랑 작곡 / 최지운 작사 / 고혜수 김아령 김희영 조은주 최지운 한승호 보컬 / 고혜수 김아령 김희영 조은주 한승호 피아노 / 최지운 09. 얄라얄라셩 원곡 / 고려가요 ‘청산별곡’ 中 후렴구 작사, 작곡 / 천군만마(유영은, 권민창, 이예찬) 보컬, 드럼머신 / 이예찬 베이스기타 / 유영은 보컬, 대금, 태평소 / 권민창 일렉기타 / 지정수 (객원) 10. 눈치코치 작곡 / 김기산, 박유민 작사 / 김기산. 박유민 보컬 / 박유민 건반 / 김기산 대금 / 최관용 25현가야금 / 최하빈 베이스, 일렉기타 / 김명관 코러스 / 박소정, 고도예 2020 Original Gugak Music Development The 14th Annual 21st Century Korean Music Project Artistic Director’s Note - Yang Soung-whan (Composer) This year has been a particularly tough year with a lot of difficult things happening. In particular, due to the COVID-19 situation, many performance stages were indefinitely postponed or cancelled, causing artists of performing arts to suffer greatly. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, with no end yet in sight, has discouraged artists’ creative desire and is even threatening their livelihood. The annual 21st Century Korean Music Project, which marks its 14th anniversary this year, has also faced many difficulties. Nevertheless, under the situation in which it was not even easy to hold face-to-face meetings due to social distancing, we managed to carry out the entire process from the first and second preliminary rounds to mentoring, album producing, and so on. Although the schedule was pushed back about two months later than in other years, it felt like a miracle, for which I was thankful, to be able to hold the final stage. It could not have been made possible without the efforts and sacrifices of everyone at the Gugak Broadcasting Foundation and participating musicians. I give them all a big round of applause for their hard work. Grand Prize : groove& - Run, Ran, Run Gold Prize : SOKSOKGOT - Plankton Silver Prize : bob - La la la la la la Onsaemiro - Cheongcheong Dodeuri Bronze Prize : Mokkoji - Nothing to lose WeMu - Eo-Heogutjja Participation Prize : SIMFULL - Requiem of Cheong-Chun Sori Ensemble Gong - Aranga CGMM - YalLaYalLaSyeong FUN So-ri-kkun - Sense Track 01. groove& - Run, Ran, Run groove& This group is a female percussion ensemble composed of percussion major students, who met in the same school and shared their musical struggles. Their goal is to express on stage the delicateness of women through a meticulous and solid structure. By communicating with the audience, they aim to bring the disappearing rhythm and beats of Korea back to the world and create music beyond the combination of talent and capacity as artists in the process of expressing and merging it. Run, Ran, Run In our youth, we live our life zealously pursuing happiness, but we are bound to be chased by reality with the constant anxiety in our minds that does not allow us to settle. This music conveys the joys and sorrows, ups and downs of such a life. The music is composed of percussion instruments including yanggeum, xylophone, traditional drum, kkwaenggwari, and cymbals, as well as bass guitar. The yanggeum, which takes the main melody from beginning to end, gives a fast and lyrical performance to express the nature of a life that resembles running. The melody of the xylophone, which adds a repeating cyclical structure on top of that, makes one feel the futility of life, while the bass guitar expresses a sense of anxiety. However, as there is hope and joy amidst a futile and exhausting reality, two musicians performing kkwaenggwari liven up the atmosphere by exchanging beats freely. Track 02. SOKSOKGOT - Plankton SOKSOKGOT “SOKSOKGOT” refers to the undergarment that is worn under the everyday clothes by those in traditional Korean society. The group chose this name with an intention to face gugak which is deeply rooted in the everyday lives of Korean people, and pursue resonating music. To quote the words of a film director, “The most personal is the most creative.” The group upholds the “salad bowl” theory as their founding principle, in which the diversity of each individual is acknowledged and everyone accepts different cultures flexibly. Plankton A plankton is an organism that either does not possess its own motor ability or moves passively. This music is based on the conception of the “Gogo cheonbyeon” (On the edge of the sky) part included in the pansori Sugungga (Song of Sea Palace, based on the “Tale of Rabbit and Terrapin”) and sings the story of people wandering, the young generation of Koreans searching their paths. People who listen to this music may discover themselves floating infinitely like the plankton, which may somehow feel fear and anxiety floating around the deep sea, or like the terrapin and rabbit floating on the sea of harsh world. Track 03. bob - La la la la la la bob Is not too much to say that Korean language itself cannot be discussed without the word “bob” (literally, rice) and it is a common saying that Korean people live by the strength of “bob.” Also, for those of us, whether knowingly or not, who live with music, are consoled by music, and gain strength to pick ourselves up again from music, music is an indispensible part of life. Hence, bob dreams of creating music that could touch everyone’s heart by Koreanizing global pop music and globalizing Korean music. La la la la la la The group integrated a simple but fresh beat, and the familiar, yet unusual sounds of funk, disco, and synth pop found in the contemporary music of 2020 with a very addictive folksong in the form of call and response, “Kwaejina ching ching nane.” The recurring melody, which is the staple of “Kwaejina ching ching nane,” is combined with the lyrics to create a work song and play song for everyone who is living in the contemporary world. It is a catchy song that everyone can easily sing along to and brings out excitement in everyone, regardless of age or gender. Track 04. Onsaemiro - Cheongcheong Dodeuri Onsaemiro “Onsaemiro” is a pure Korean word that means “looking as is without being divided or broken, au naturel, and always unchanging.” The group endeavors to deliver the beauty and flavor of gugak instruments to contemporary audiences, embodied in their wish to sing about the nature. Cheongcheong Dodeuri “Cheongcheong Dodeuri” is a piece that expresses the immaculately pure and clear energy of the green forest and the wonders of Mother Nature. It uses as its motif the pure and upbeat melodic theme of “Yangcheong Dodeuri,” which is the second song in the Cheonnyeon manse (A thousand years, ten thousand years old) collection. The title of the original piece signifies that the music is in consecutive Dodeuri beat format comprised of two “cheong” of geomungo. However, “cheong” in this piece signifies “pure, green, clean, and youthful,” which, in turn, convey the message that one should not be tainted by the world and always remember the evergreen spirit essential to nature. To maximize the appeal of gugak instruments, which embody nature as they are made of wood, the piece includes special instruments to convey the sounds of water, birds, wind, and the like to create the effect of feeling as though one is in the woods. Track 05. Mokkoji - Nothing to lose Mokkoji Mokkoji was first conceived when the composer and leader of the group began recruiting members for an “insanely popular gugak group,” which had been a dream since childhood. The name is a pure Korean word for “play” or “feast,” which captures the group’s hope of making the moment meaningful, exciting, and memorable with the traditional Korean music. They have the goal of growing as a group that can show the full extent of entertainment and appeal of gugak not only in Korea, but also overseas. Nothing to lose This song was created from the imagination that if popular music existed in the Joseon Dynasty, it would probably sound like this. It moves beyond capturing the despondency of a person who has nothing more to lose and conveys the readiness to have some fun since nothing is going to stop them now. Track 06. WeMu - Eo-Heogutjja WeMu WeMu is a group that creates a new form of music by utilizing the traditional shamanic beats and melodies of Korea. They aim to create music that goes beyond coming back to the professional fields to which they belong and make something that the public can easily approach. They plan to spread traditional Korean music both in and outside of Korea by actively engaging in overseas activities. Eo-Heogutjja “Eo-Heogutjja” is the stylized verbal technique (mal buchimsae) that shaman (simbang) added at the beginning of a speech in the shamanic ritual (gut) of Seoul. The word “gut,” in particular, is a sort of wordplay, which conveys the dual meaning of “gut” (shamanic ritual) in Korean and “good” in English. The music is elating and energetic, praying for the good health and good fortune of the audiences by adapting the “jaesugut” (literally, shamanic ritual praying for good fortune), one of the shamanic rituals (gut) of Seoul. Track 07. SIMFULL - Requiem of Cheong-Chun SIMFULL The name SIMFULL conveys the dual meaning of “consoling the heart” and “fulfilling the heart.” The group tries to create new and rich music by building harmony with the performance of three sorikkun (vocalists of storytelling performance), instead of using the monody of a single sorikkun. They hope to console and satisfy the heart of everyone listening to SIMFULL’s music by telling the stories of the twenty-first century in which we live through the most Korean music possible. Requiem of Cheong-Chun “Requiem of Cheong-Chun” is, in other words, the funeral song for the youth. The song’s motif is taken from the funeral song in the pansori Simcheongga (Song of Sim Cheong). Funeral songs originally referred to the song that was sung while carrying the bier to send off the deceased, but here the music was adapted to signify the sending off of the youth (cheong-chun) on the bier. The music is dedicated to every youth living fiercely in this contemporary world. Track 08. Sori Ensemble Gong - Aranga Sori Ensemble Gong Sori ensemble gong is a group composed of one composer and five sorikkun (vocalists of storytelling performance) from Korea National University of Arts, whose majors spanned pansori, Gyeonggi folksong, and gayageum byeongchang (vocal performance accompanied by gayageum). When a circle stands on its own, it signifies nothing or absence, but when one more circle is added, together they signify infinity (∞). As the group’s name suggests, “Sori ensemble gong” sings to empathize the world through music with their infinite possibilities. Aranga This song is inspired by the “Tale of Arang,” which is passed down through the “Milyang Arirang” To underscore the story aspect of the newly adapted tale, the lyrics have been modified, and the musical creativity was added to capture the emotions of the protagonist, Arang. “Aranga,” which can almost be expressed as an “audiobook,” is a song that reinvented the existing “Milyang Arirang” in the style unique to “Sori ensemble gong”. Track 09. CGMM - YalLaYalLaSyeong CGMM “CGMM,” the acronym for “Cheon-gun-man-ma” (thousands of troops and horses, or in other words, a powerful army) signifies that each member of the group has gained the reinforcement that supports the others musically. The group expresses the sounds of gugak instruments not by using them in the conventional manner, but by turning them into electronic music. They convey the various sounds of gugak instruments via electronic music and close the gap with the actual performance sounds, through which they try to capture the eyes and ears of the public with the mysterious and colorful music. YalLaYalLaSyeong “YalLaYalLaSyeong” is taken from the refrain of a Goryeo gayo (Goryeo song), “Cheongsan byeolgok” (Song of green mountain), “yalli yallasyeong yallari yalla,” whose meaning is reinterpreted and composed in the style of CGMM. The refrain originally has no particular meaning or significance, but CGMM used it as a magical spell that can be recited in various situations or emotions that we go through in life. One part of “Cheongsan byeolgok” is reiterated musically, so that the phrase can at times empower us, or at other times bring us faith. Track 10. FUN So-ri-kkun - Sense FUN So-ri-kkun [눈치코치]는 일상에서 누구나 한 번쯤은 겪어봤을 법한 주변의 ‘눈치코치’ 없는 상황들을 신나는 4박 리듬과 중독성 있는 트로트풍의 멜로디로 만든 곡이다. 목까지 차오른 말을 삼켜야만 하는 현실 속 답답한 상황을 공감되는 가사로 풍자하여 많은 이들의 응어리진 한을 노래로 유쾌하게 승화시킨다. Sense “Sense” portrays the frustrating situations that anyone could have experienced at one point in life, in which people around them act in ways that just seem to lack common sense. The music is written with exciting 4-beat rhythm and catchy trot-style melody. The frustrating situations that one encounters in reality, when one has to hold back their opinions that are bursting to come out, are expressed in satirical and relatable lyrics, which ultimately transforms the brewing discontent into humorous song. Credit 01. Run, Ran, Run Composition / Lee Sang-kyung Yanggeum, Buk(traditional drum), and shaker / Lee Sang-kyung Xylophone, Jing(Korean gong), and kkwaenggwari / Sohn Min-ju Cymbals, floor tom, and kkwaenggwari / Kim Ha-kyung Bass guitar / Choi Jang-goon (guest performer) 02. Plankton Composition and Arrangement / SOKSOKGOT Lyrics / Kang Ye-sin Vocal / Kang Ye-sin Haegeum / Sun Ji-woo Keyboard / Son Ji-yoon Live electronics / Shin Ye-hun 03. La la la la la la Original Music / Gyeonggi folksong “Kwaejina ching ching nane” Composition / bob (Song Ji-hoon, Han Seung-kyu, Kim Ye-seul, Hong Seo-yeon, Lee Su-wan) Lyrics / Lee Su-wan Drums / Song Ji-hoon Bass / Han Seung-kyu Keyboard / Kim Ye-seul Haegeum / Hong Seo-yeon Vocal / Lee Su-wan 04. Cheongcheong Dodeuri Composition / Kim Da-eun Piano / Kim Da-eun Haeguem / Yoo Soo-min Daegeum / Park soo-hyeon 25-stringed gayageum / Kim Ji-yeon Daeajaeng / Kim Da-in Piri / Lee A-young Janggu / Kwak A-young Kkwaenggwari and cymbals / Kim Ju-ho 05. Nothing to lose Lyrics and composition / Hwang Jin-young Arrangement / Kim Ji-eun, Kim Ha-eun, and Park Ji-su Sori (vocal) / Lee Ye-ji Percussion / Kim Ji-eun Haegeum / Kim Ha-eun Piri and taepyeongso / Cho Sung-min Electric guitar / Park Ji-su Bass guitar / Hwang Jin-young 06. Eo-Heogutjja Lyrics and composition / Park Joo-hwa Vocal / Kim Song-ji Piri and Jing(Korean gong) / Lee Chan-woo Violin / Choe Seok-hwan Percussion / Kim Yoon-man Piano / Park Joo-hwa 07. Requiem of Cheong-Chun Composition / Kim Se-uoom, Kim Jin-sol Lyrics / Kim Jin-sol Sori (vocal) / Kang Eun-bi, Kim Jin-sol, and Shin Ye-ju Keyboard / Kim Se-uoom Piri / Choi Tae-hoon Ajaeng / Oh Ha-lim Janggu / Jung Gyu-re Percussion / Song Dae-eui 08. Aranga Original music / Milyang Arirang Composition / Choi Ji-Woon Lyrics / Go Hye-su, Kim A-ryeong, Kim Hee-young, Cho Eun-joo, Choi Ji-woon, Han Seung-ho Vocals / Go Hye-su, Kim A-ryeong, Kim Hee-young, Cho Eun-joo, Han Seung-ho Piano / Choi Ji-woon 09. YalLaYalLaSyeong Original music / Refrain from Goryeo gayo, “Cheongsan byeolgok” (Song of green mountain) Lyrics and composition / CGMM (Yu Yeong-eun, Gwon Min-chang, and Lee Ye-chan) Vocal and drum machine / Lee Ye-chan Bass guitar / Yu Yeong-eun Vocal, daegeum, and taepyeongso / Gwon Min-chang Electric guitar / Ji Jeong-su (guest performer) 10. Sense Composition / Kim Ki-san, Park Yu-min Lyrics / Kim Ki-san, Park Yu-min Vocal / Park Yu-min Keyborad / Kim Ki-san Daegeum / Choi Gwan-yong 25-stringed gayageum / Choi Ha-bin Bass and electric guitar / Kim Myeong-gwan Chorus / Park So-jung, Ko Do-ye REVIEW | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
