Kangto's Interview with Mintpaper

Through Mintpaper's newsletter I came across this interview and translated it. (I may be lazy, but feel free to drop me something.)

T/N: Sorry about weird english


Kangto Interview – A guitarist singing with his heart

In the field I am there are a lot of people who want to make their own original thing. But it’s not easy to enjoy what I do unflinchingly to the surrounding circumstances.

“Becoming happy is my dream. Currently, the closest thing to happiness seems to be the music for me. So I’m making music.”

A young man who grew up with music, playing his guitar since he was little, and even though there were times he worried ‘is this the right path?’, he never let go of the guitar, performed joyfully und raised his dream. Then he met a good mentor coincidentally and finally he was a newcomer releasing his first album under his own name. Listening to his story, it doesn’t seem the ‘coincidence’ simply came. After playing guitar and singing somewhere for a long series of time, how is the feeling of holding the album he finally released under his own name? His name is still unfamiliar, but we met the newcomer, singing with a pure heart, Kangto.

Indie Band Names' Meaning Part 2

This was quite confusing and at times I thought making a part 2 had been a mistake, some parts turned out quite weird.

This time: Dear Cloud, Yellow Monsters, The KOXX, Galaxy Express, Monni, Guckkasten, Sister's Barbershop, No Reply and Gajami Boys

T/N: Names are again romanised on a whim. Cookies for people who can give me romanised name for 가자미소년단. Sorry for weirdness.

10cm's Americano doesn't die

10cm and Ha Ji Won acted together in a cf for coffee where 10cm's hit song 'Americano' had been rearranged with Ha Ji Won joining them. Even though it was their first time appearing in a cm, 10cm performed without a NG.

Indie Band Names' Meaning

Yesterday, I was searching for Achime(as searching with this name one finds everything but the band), I stumbled upon an article explaining the meanings of names from indie bands. Probably interesting to know that most of them don't have a real meaning, I did a quick translation.

This had been called 'part 1', so I hope there comes more. The first part contains Gloomy Monkeys, Soran, Daybreak, Munk, Neon Bunny, Broccoli you too, Oyster Boys and Joa Band. Please excuse me if there are names romanized wrong, I write them simply as I feel like.

The KOXX, No Reply and 2 new artists at Happy Robot's

Happy Robot posted some news on their blog today, also mentioning a new albums from No Reply and the KOXX. No Reply plans on gather new, unpublished songs and make an album out of them. If I understood it right, it's supposed to be released before their performance at the Olympic Hall in July.

The KOXX will release their first full-length album with the title 'Access OK'. It's supposed to come out in the beginning of June.

Happy Robot has also signed two new bands, Soran and Lala Sweet.

Something small Mintpaper-ish

By chance I stumbled over a blog entry by Sombrero (head of MPMG) about the plans of the 4th Mintpaper project album. He writes that it will maybe be released in September, latest before GMF 2011 in October. There are still no songs, but the participants have been decided to a certain extent. Also, there will be a lot of new faces, he says.

On another small note, No Reply's song '낡은 배낭을 메고' that had been on the digital single '끝나지 않은 노래', has been used for a cuckoo rice cooker advertisment with Won Bin.

Guckkasten's new EP

Most of you probably know already about the new EP which has been released yesterday, December 7. Next to the instrumental 'Tagträume' it contains the 2 songs 'Manicure' and '붉은 밭', additionally with respectively an electronic and acoustic version.

A music video of 'Manicure' has been pre-released as a 'Performance Version', the full version with day and night performing, story part, VFX effects and 3D(?) will be released December 11.



Besides that, a kind of background description of the two songs has been brought up. I tried to translate it here. But be warned, it's a hell of confusing which may be partly due my translation skills.