Yoon’s second album Mother Nature, released six years after her previous album, is themed on “the great nature.” With themes such as nature and earth at their beginning, stories of the various life forms that live in them, various forms of human life, and the passage of life beyond death, the album tells the story of the great nature, the origins of everything, that embraces and cradles all of these processes.
Countless humans, as numerous as the stars, have treaded this world. The earth is only a small dot in our vast universe, and we are born in it, we live our lives, and we return to nature. Yoon attempts to capture this inevitable cycle with her music. Yoon has planned, produced, composed, arranged, and personally played the songs in this album, providing a journey into her ripened musical realm. Moreover, she is joined by her longtime collaborators such as Sunwoojunga and Hareem, who are known for their uniqueness, as well as Korean traditional musicians – players of gayageum, daegeum, piri, percussion, and other instruments – and jazz musicians, taking the refined musical performance to perfection.
Yoon skillfully arranges a wide range of diversity into a single album, in which the songs, “Sacheolga”, “Taechowu,” and “A Story of Blue Whales” are reminiscent of film scores, in collaboration with the Budapest Orchestra of 45 musicians and boasting sublime scales. “Destroy” is a rather shocking electronic song that sounds as a warning to humankind’s selfishness, and the song, “The Survivor’s Grief,” reminds us of a Korean traditional shaman’s dance dedicated to the dead and the mourners. Through a colorful, yet fresh, consonance, Yoon’s second album, Mother Nature, takes us through a genuinely moving experience. Supported by its storytelling filled with warm sentimentality and insight, Yoon’s album aspires to take a friendly step towards the public.
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