Four songs with spring passing twice — JANGKIJUN's full session
Four songs. The season appears in two of the titles.
In three lines
- NONOL LIVE has the full-length version of JANGKIJUN's session.
- The four songs are '나, 그대를', '다시, 봄', '봄비' and '고백'.
- The two in the middle have spring in their titles.
Titles with a comma in them
Line the titles up in order and it looks like this.
| Order | Song |
|---|---|
| 1 | 나, 그대를 |
| 2 | 다시, 봄 |
| 3 | 봄비 |
| 4 | 고백 |
The first two titles carry a comma: '나, 그대를' (I, you) and '다시, 봄' (again, spring).
A comma is a mark that breaks a sentence. Written closed up they read as 'I you' and 'spring again'; spaced apart, the first word stops once before moving on.
Saying 'I', pausing, then saying 'you' runs at a different speed from saying it straight through. An acoustic arrangement is the arrangement where that difference in speed is audible.
The order in which spring comes twice
Spring is in the second and third songs: '다시, 봄' and '봄비' (spring rain).
'다시, 봄' is a season that has returned — the title contains the fact that it already passed once. '봄비' is rain falling inside that season. One points at a whole season, the other at a single scene within it.
It's an order that narrows from the wide to the near. And what follows is '고백' — a confession. Season to scene, scene to speech.
Listening to spring songs in summer
It's August. Not the right season for spring songs.
But songs about a season sometimes land better heard out of season. A spring song in spring is close to confirming what's outside the window; a spring song in summer becomes an act of retrieval.
The title '다시, 봄' is convenient in that respect. It already means calling back something that has passed, so it doesn't turn awkward when the season is out of joint.
Today, like this
Play this session in order from beginning to end. It's arranged from wide to near, so shuffling erases the path.
It's acoustic, so speakers beat earphones. One guitar and a voice reach their full size when they ring in a room.
That the last song is '고백' also only shows if you listen in order. It's a run of talk about seasons that turns, at the end, to speak to a person.
A new song has arrived at the playground today.
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