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Her calm first greeting, with a delicate voice deeply imbued with emotional sensibility, makes you feel more and more favorable the more you listen!
Jazz vocalist Hakyung's 1st full album <BREATHING IN> released!
Although she is a rookie releasing her first leader album, Hakyung has experience working diligently in the Korean jazz scene for the past several years. Therefore, this debut work of hers does not show any freshness or childishness, and she shows that she definitely has maturity and natural expressiveness in all the songs, from composing and arranging to her own songs.
From the serious modern jazz style of How Sweet to the balanced musical balance of R&B and jazz in Barely Awake and See Me Here, Sidalso (The Boy Who Runs Through Time), which is full of pop/song tendencies in both lyrics and melody, shows the ability of an all-around singer-songwriter who knows how to create a popular side in a simple yet sophisticated way through jazz arrangements. In the ballad Simple Bond, which has a calm and neat R&B atmosphere, Hakyung's mournful vocals leave a lingering impression along with Kang Jae-hoon's outstanding piano solo, and especially in the ending track Another Way of Living, where the subtle laid-back vocals installed in her slender tone create a wonderful harmony with the contrabass, she exudes a subtle and clear charm like Blossom Dearie. Her calm first greeting, with a delicate voice deeply imbued with emotional sensibility, makes you feel more and more favorable the more you listen!
- Kim Hee-joon / Editor-in-chief of MMJAZZ
There are more sub-genres in jazz music than you might think. The first declaration of jazz vocalist Hakyung, who directly created and sang all the most traditional jazz songs! It contains everything about 21st century jazz vocals, showing various aspects from Karen McRae's mid-low range to Randy Crawford's soul and Nora Jones' sincere songwriting. You can feel the force of a veteran vocalist who has released 10 albums in the skill of unraveling her own story one by one while taking a deep breath (Breathing In).
- Kim Kwang-hyun / Editor-in-chief of Jazz People
I ask myself several times a day what good music is. [Breathing In] is clearly seeking an answer to that, but it doesn't obsess over it. Hakyung's vocals are comfortable to listen to but not light, and her songs are catchy but not simple. Listening to the album, I naturally believe that good senses bloom in the story and attitude of modern swing.
- Jung Byung-wook / Pop music critic
Too much is as bad as too little. Excess is worse than deficiency. This is also the attitude that the jazz genre should have. Overflowing jazz is uncomfortable, but jazz that allows for blank space is peaceful. Hakyung's debut album is an album that knows and practices the true meaning of 과유불급. From the arrangement of the piano trio with trumpet and saxophone, the stability of the music already spreads like a fragrance. This album, where fusions like ‘See Me Here’, where you can check drummer Anthony Fung’s resolute sense of rhythm, and classic pop styles like ‘Simple Bond’, where you can immerse yourself in pianist Kang Jae-hoon’s sensibility, coexist back to back, has all the advantages of jazz: comfort and sophistication. Hakyung's chic vocal tone, which stands out in ‘Another Way of Living’, which only uses contrabass, also has exceptional interpretive skills and leads everything. His song is humble for the coexistence of song and performance rather than showing off skills. That's why the whole music sounds harmonious. Suddenly, I had this thought. Kim Joo-hwan, who was in charge of mixing, mastering, and producing, might have been slightly jealous of this album as a jazz vocalist. It's that skillful of an album.
- Kim Seong-dae / Pop music critic
