Hilgeum 1st Official Album
UTOPIA, 2022
Work Area: Album Cover, Teaser Video, Physical Album
Client: HILGEUM
Album Cover ︎︎︎
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Hilgeum is the trio consists of Yoin Cho, the gayageum Player, Yerim Kim, the geomungo player, and Somin Park, the haegeum player. As musicians, they gathered to resonate their voices to the world through music. This album [Utopia], their first work, relates diverse emotions encountered in the life, telling the story they want to tell freely and straightly. All tracks, written together by three members, carries the color of each player. These present rich and immersive sounds through three traditional Korean string instruments. They hope this work, started from focusing their own minds and emotions, to also be extended to listeners' minds and emotions and be another story.
Title Lettering (Track List 1 - 7 / Project Title)︎︎︎
Teaser Video︎︎︎
Sleeve, Digi Pack Case (Front / Back Side)︎︎︎
CD︎︎︎
CD︎︎︎
Lyric Paper︎︎︎
Produced & Composed by
Hilgeum (Yoin Cho, Yerim Kim, Somin Park)
25 Strings Gayageum by
Yoin Cho
Geomungo by
Yerim Kim
Haegeum, Singing bowl by
Somin Park
Mixed & Mastered by
Byoungkeuk Kim @ANTMIX
Recorded by
Jiyoung Lee @EUM Sound
Recording Directed by
Jaeha Lee (track 1-6)
Saehanbyeol Mun (track 7)
Album Design by
Marvin Kim @SPINE PRESS
Hyejin Jeon @SPINE PRESS
Photo by
Seunghawn Roh
Photo Source by
Drawingthemusic
Hilgeum Single Album
Nihil, 2022
Work Area: Album Cover, Teaser Image
Client: HILGEUM
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Nihil is a Latin word meaning “nothing” or “emptiness.” In a modern world, many people feel as if nothing is meaningful. The work expresses a hope of going beyond the nothingness. Its beginning part that starts with a fast beat portrays a mindless ego wandering without a clear purpose, stuck in a sense of emptiness. The following haegeum solo depicts a dance of insanity coming from the frustrated state of mind. The work goes on to express an intensifying dance through the dosalpuri jangdan. The repetitions and extensions in the piece’s initial part express an idea that nothingness always coexists with us and also pushes us forward, making us live our lives with a fresh mind.
Consisting of three musicians who play the gayageum, geomungo, and haegeum, Hilgeum seeks to create sincere musical sounds in this chaotic world. All of the band’s works are written through the three artists’ collaboration.
Gayageum instrument: Cho Yo-In
Geomungo instrument: Kim Ye-Rim
Haegeum instrument: Park So-Min
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