Thursday, October 7, 2010

The present situation of Jang Gi Ha and The Faces

Having not much of activities, Jang Gi Ha receives questions about what he’s actually doing and answers that in an entry at Boonga Boonga Record’s blog.

The reason for leaving for a vacation was the abruptly increasing schedule that got hard to handle. So the first half of the year they didn’t do any performances in order to take care of their bodies and hearts. In the last half of the year, starting with Jisan Valley Rock Festival they will slowly start to have performances.

What changed at Jang Gi Ha and The Faces is the member constellation. First, the Mimi Sisters left the band. They will continue activities in future as an independent duo and not as a part of Jang Gi Ha and The Faces.

Keyboard player Lee Jong Min joined the band. Lee Jong Min is a part of the band ‘Kingston Rudieska’ and has beside that a lot of session performances. He was originally also a session musician for Jang Gi Ha and The Faces, but as he has been participating in songs and the need of a keyboard became bigger, especially in the 2nd album, he has been made a formal member.

Hasegawa Yohei (aka Kim Yang Pyung), the guitarist of Kim Chang Wan Band, became a guest member to bring more variety into the band’s sound.

Jang Gi Ha and The Faces will have their performances in Japan November 22 and 23, and the release of their 1st album ‘별 일 없이 산다’ November 3. They are currently at making their 2nd album, more than half of the songs being finished. Maybe end of November they will start recording. Until the result will be released it may take over a year though. He excuses himself for that and asks for your understanding that it needs that time to make an album that just deserves to be heard.

Besides other appearances on TV, Jang Gi Ha himself will be in ‘Yoo Hee Yeol’s Sketchbook’s corner ‘만지다’(touch) as the ‘Singer Of The Month’ of October.

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