Sängerinnen, die es vermögen, ein ganzes Genre wachzurütteln, sind selten. Die Koreanerin Youn Sun Nah ist solch ein Phänomen, wie "Lento" beweist. „Ein Wunder“, „Ganz große Kunst“, „Bezaubernd“ oder „Weltklasse-Gesang“ befand die hiesige Presse über die Sängerin in den letzten Jahren.
Female singers who manage to stir a whole genre are seldom found. Diana Krall and Norah Jones are such outstanding talents who gave vocal jazz a whole new colour, and Korean singer Youn Sun Nah has been equally phenomenal. In the last few years she has conquered the music world with her albums “Voyage” (2009) and “Same Girl” (2010) released on ACT. “A miracle“, “a great piece of art“, “enchanting” “a world-class singer” – just some of the overwhelmingly positive responses from the press to these albums. Within two years Nah had received her fourth “Korean Music Award”, the BMW World Jazz Award and the ECHO Jazz Award for best international female singer whilst in France, her second home, “Same Girl” was the best selling jazz album of the year in 2011, Nah received the “Prix Mimi Perrin du Jazz Vocal“ as female vocalist of the year, the...
line upYoun Sun Nah / vocals
Ulf Wakenius / guitars
Lars Danielsson / bass & cello
Vincent Peirani / accordion & accordina
Xavier Desandre-Navarre / percussion
Produced by Youn Sun Nah & Axel Matignon
Executive Producer : JJ In
Recorded at Nilento Studio, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 31 - November 2
Mixed December 4 - 7 and mastered December 19, 2012
by Lars Nilsson, assisted by Michael Dahlvid.
