Thomas Cook - Mintpaper Interview

Thomas Cook was the Artist Of The Month June at Mintpaper's and 3 month after starting, I finished the translation of the interview that came with it.


T/N: I realized while proofreading, that my english is still awkward and fail. I'm sorry for that. If there is something you don't understand, ask!

Highlights:
- talking about the time before his comeback and his search
- talking about producer Kim Dong Ryul
- My Aunt Mary's future (the reason I translated the whole thing, actually)
- the lovely that is Jeong Sun Yong.

[Lala Sweet] Interview with Mintpaper

Lala Sweet consists of guitar and vocal Kim Hyuna and keyboard Park Byul. April 29th they released their first EP and made their song ‘good bye’ known through the Mintpaper compilation LIFE and the 1Night 2Days preview on next episode with Kim C leaving the show. They made their debut with ‘나의 낡은 오렌지나무’ winning silver at the University Music Competition.
Growing up with listening to rock music, they met in their teens at a place where they went to learn instruments. After some time they decided to make their own music that is just made of guitar and piano and they started Lala Sweet.
When they were traveling to India, they discovered a store called ‘Lala Sweet’. They found the name cute and wrote it down. When they were searching for a name for them that was ‘easy to say, pretty in Latin letters and Hangeul and without any embarrassing meaning’, they remembered it.

Mintpaper had a little Interview with them that I thought was interesting (and easy) enough to translate.

[No Reply] In Interview with Kim Ki Ja

The Kim KiJa Daum Cafe (which revolves around Indie) has a new corner "Alive, Deep Inside", showing other sides of the artists to the fans. Their first artist was No Reply.
At first a video was released with cuts from the interview and a live performance.



Later the full interview has been revealed (click on 'Read More'), followed by snapshots, to look at here and No Reply's favorite music, see here

[Lucid Fall] Mintpaper Interview

As Lucid Fall is Mintpaper's Person of the month February, they did an interview with him.

It is a rather comfortable one and nice to read. I didn't gave his radio appearance a listen yet though.

[9 and the Numbers] Who are they

Or rather who is 9.

Through a Interview from Mintpaper with 9('ku') and some internet articles I found out a bit about 9.

9 is Song Jae Kyung, the President of Tune Table Movement and he also was the guitarist in a band called '그림자 궁전'(Shadow Palace).
He started to freely write and compose songs about life and started like this a band that was totally different from Shadow Palace, calling his music electro folk or guitar synth-pop.

A music video for '말해주세요' is in work, planned is a music video with the feeling of an old Korean movie. 9 and the Numbers also have their first concert 27th February at club ta, guest is Oh Ji Eun.

9 also informs about the album of a new band called ‘Miracle of the Hangang’(한강의 기적) in mid of March, an album from Frenzy, a new album from Heureun and a remix album from Loro's.

To read the whole interview and get to know much more about 9, go here.

[Annyeong Bada] Interview

In an interview from 24th December 2009 (that I got to translate just now u_u) it turns out that 'Annyeong Bada' or 'ByeBye Sea' is not the full name of the band but 'I cross with you the sea' (난 그대와 바다를 가르네) and was shortened for an easy use.

They also reveal a little story behind this huge balloon.

In a part that was not interesting enough to be translated, the journalist mentions that ByeBye Sea will start to work on a full length album that is supposed to come out this year(2010).

To read the interview click 'Read more'

[Naru] Selfinterview

I translated the Selfinterview Naru did for Mintpaper.
There are still some things sounding weird, but I think besides the lyricspart and the album title part things become clear. And I'm not quite sure what 헐헐 means, I translated it with *sigh* but I am unsure. Also left the parts that were written by Mintpaper away.




Mintpaper gave Naru some guidelines and he himself asked and answered the Questions. The Interview is from March 2008.

How did you become aware of music?

When I was little, I was a normal child listening to music at a random note. I liked national singers. During 6th class of Elementary School, I liked and listened to H.O.T., because they looked awesome…
Coming into Middle School I started to listen well to the radio. Through the music of Panic, Kim Jong Seo, Jaurim, Exhibition(전람회), Deli Spice, etc, whom I got in contact with through the radio, I became aware of the greatness of serious music(?). And at that time I also started to search and listen a lot to pop songs, as good quality pop songs were introduced a lot through the cable music broadcast channels. At the same time, the first CD of an oversea band I bought was Prodigy’s ‘Fat Of The Land’. I can remember that I heard also hardcore music like Korn or Limpbizkit that controlled the end of the 90s.
It’s different from the music I make now, but I still like them and listen to them. Because they were the bands making me to like music more seriously.