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Synnara MusicO So-Young (SK,2001)**°°

While the CD starts in a rather poppy, somewhat public winning mode on the first two tracks, O So-Young’s music has in fact a singer-songwriter feel with acoustic or electric guitar composition, accompanied by either a poprockband, or in 2/3rd of her songs staying close to the soft guitar with O So-Young’s sweet voice, with a great sound production, and with sparse extra elements of (reverb) electric guitar, drums, bass, and some keyboards. The songs are strong enough with just guitar and voice. I guess it’s the right choice of songs that are arranged more. My personal favourite still are the acoustic tracks, like “Loss of memory”. Three perfect, beautiful moody tracks with a very special atmosphere are the three tracks in a row : “Side effect” (voice, guitar, bells, fretless ? bass, piano, some sound effects), “Wanderer” (melodeon, acoustic guitar, voice, piano, bass) and “Wind” (beautiful fingerpicked acoustic guitar with vocals and oboe). These mentioned tracks are reserved for airplay on my radioshow.

Details on this album (with 2 video clips) : http://osoyoung.com/music1.htm

Korean review : http://www.weiv.co.kr/review_view.asp?code=album&num=833

O So-Young

Biography :

1974.7.5 Born in Busan, Korea

1994. 6th Prize of Yoo Jae-Ha music contest as a song “In the fall”

1997 Graduate at Dong-A University (Computer Engineering) in Busan

2000 HanaMusic Compilation Album “sea” as a song “Coward”

2001.2 First Album [Loss of memory]

2001.6.5 First Concert [Loss of memory] in Seoul

2003.8 HanaMusic Compilation Album [Project 4 : Dream] Concert

Now preparing second Album.

She learned guitar when she was 13. In 1994 she won the prize of 6th Yoo Jae-ha Music contest and joined HanaMusic Lable. Jo Dong-Jin produced and Jo Dong-ik directed her first album “Loss of memory”, and O So young wrote all songs and played all acoustic guitar.

O So-Young First album [Loss of memory]

Track titles :

1. Ready

2. The nail to be nailed less

3. Why

4. Secret

5. Coward

6. I want to forget

7. Loss of memory

8. Mistake

9. I hate it

10. Side effect

11. Wanderer

12. Wind

13. Vanity

14. I closed my eyes

Info : http://osoyoung.com