'Lights' turn to 'starlight' in 'Dreamer': Choi Aim at a playground in a park that was once a quarry

Choi Aim introduces Choi Aim as a vocalist who expresses music with one voice and no fixed genre. The first single was 'S.T.O.P' in August 2021 (Bugs). The 11th NONOL LIVE was filmed in December, as snowflakes piled up layer by layer, at Byeongmogan Citizen Park in Anyang-dong. According to the description, the park was a quarry from the 1930s to the 1980s, digging the gravel laid for the Gyeongbu and Suin railway lines. Kim Yo-han played piano and Won Jong-hyun played guitar. Times follow the full version of the video on the NONOL channel.

0:01 S.T.O.P

The debut song, about wanting to escape the countless conflicts of a tiring daily life. Choi Aim said it was chosen as the opener to comfort people worn down by the conflicts of their daily lives. The chorus, '이대로 시간을 멈춰줘 / 푸른 바다 한가운데에' ("stop time just like this / in the middle of the blue sea"), runs three times in a row from 2:06 to the end.

4:07 나는 (I Am)

Choi Aim introduced it as a song released on Choi Aim's birthday not long before. It's built around the idea of 'I want to be a certain kind of person', with the word 'love' placed at its center. At 5:21, '나를 사랑하는 사람이 되고 싶어요' ("I want to be someone who loves myself") is followed at 5:46 by '사랑을 나누는 사람이 되고 싶어요' ("I want to be someone who shares love").

8:06 GHOST TOWN

A Benson Boone song Choi Aim chose with the words 'it's hot these days'. Choi Aim felt it holds the heart of someone who wants to end a relationship, and hoped anyone feeling the same would find comfort in it. Of the four songs, only this one has no drums or bass, just piano, guitar and voice.

12:03 몽상가(夢想家) (Dreamer)

A song written at a time when Choi Aim couldn't be a source of strength to Choi Aim's own self. It was unreleased at the time of the show. It begins at 12:30 with '반짝거리는 불빛들 아래로 / 가로등이 놓인 노란빛의 길' ("beneath the sparkling lights / a yellow-lit road lined with streetlamps"), followed on that road by '그들 사이로 초라한 나' ("me, shabby among them"). When the same spot returns at 15:16, it changes to '반짝거리는 별빛들 아래로 / 가로등이 누운' ("beneath the sparkling starlight / where the streetlamps lie down"). The bass comes in from the start of the song, the drums from 13:17. Less than three months after the video went up, on March 24, 2023, the song became 'NONOL VOL 09', 86 days later. Its English title on Apple Music is 'Dreamer', and the single also carries the playground live version. The person who wrote and arranged it is Choi Aim, too (Bugs). Apple Music

Choi Aim was the first musician NONOL met at Byeongmogan Citizen Park. After that, Haluri and finally Sung Hyunjoo sang in the same spot. Kim Yo-han and Won Jong-hyun also backed Haluri's stage.