Mögen Stile und Genres von Song zu Song variieren, ist es doch immer das „Same Girl“, das die Stücke in eine unverkennbar eigene Klangwelt überführt: Youn Sun Nah.
At Youn Sun Nah’s 2009 debut in Munich’s Unterfahrt jazz club, the audience went against the usual customs and arose for a standing ovation during the interval, not even waiting for the concert to finish. Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung called her the “discovery of the season” and wrote, “there has not been something so brilliant, interesting and virtuosic in jazz singing for a long time.” She won the Audience Prize in the BMW Welt Jazz Awards as well as the hearts of Germany’s jazz fans on her extensive JazzToday tour. Rarely has a singer taken Germany so by storm as the Korean artist Youn Sun Nah has with her ACT debut “Voyage”.“Voyage“ made it into the French top ten of the jazz charts (France is her second home) and won the coveted “CHOC” as CD of the month (Jazzman). What the Koreans and the French have already known for a long time...
line upYoun Sun Nah / vocals, kalimba, music box, kazoo
Ulf Wakenius / guitars
Lars Danielsson / acoustic bass, cello
Xavier Desandre-Navarre / percussion
Special guest on track 11: Roland Brival / narration
Produced by Axel Matignon & Lars Danielsson
Executive Producer: Jae Jin In (HUB MUSIC. Inc.)
Recorded at Nilento Studios, Gothenburg, Sweden, April 7-9
Mixed May 3-5, and mastered June 17, 2010 by Lars Nilsson