KANG DONGHOON gives songs film titles: 'At the playground', first sung at a playground, became a NONOL VOL 183 days later

KANG DONGHOON is a singer-songwriter who has been giving songs film titles. In the video, the singer-songwriter introduces the habit with "I was making songs with movie titles", and the full-length album collected that way, 'Cinema Paradiso' (January 7, 2023), holds ten songs named after films, including 'Notting Hill', 'Love Actually', '화양연화' ("In the Mood for Love") and '8월의 크리스마스' ("Christmas in August"). The twenty-fourth NONOL Live was filmed with a band in the evening, at the end of the day, in front of the treehouse at Changgol Children's Park, under an orange sunset.

0:00 Call Me By Your Name

The song starts with no accompaniment, on '너의 이름으로 날 불러줄래' ("will you call me by your name"). The first three seconds are voice alone, and the band comes in at 0:03. It is the fourth track on the full-length album, and the title is the same as the film of that name. Apple Music

4:27 Notting Hill

Before the song, KANG DONGHOON introduced it as "a song that's very lyrical and well written". It opens on '늦은 아침과 조그만 식탁' ("a late morning and a small table") and runs for the first 56 seconds without drums or bass, and the bass only comes in at 5:26. It came out first as a single in January 2021, and it is also the opening track of 'Cinema Paradiso'. Apple Music

8:51 Reality

The third song is not one of KANG DONGHOON's own. It was chosen after being asked, at the first NONOL Live meeting, to sing one movie OST, and it is Richard Sanderson's 'Reality' from the film 'La Boum'. From 'Met you by surprise' at 9:04, it is sung for more than a minute without drums or bass until 10:18, when the bass joins, and then the drums at 10:21. From 12:15, drums and bass drop out again for about 11 seconds and the voice moves to the front. Apple Music (original)

14:03 At the playground (놀이터에서)

Before the last song, KANG DONGHOON introduced '놀이터에서' ("At the playground") as "a song I'd never played for anyone, not once", and said it is "the story of a shy man like me". The first line, at 14:13, is '이 밤 너의 전화 걸려온다면' ("if your call comes tonight"), and the bass comes in at 14:37 and the drums at 14:38. The song was released as 'NONOL VOL 21' on September 28, 2023, 183 days after the video went up. Apple Music

The band, as introduced between songs, is Gong Seokbae (공석배) on guitar, Kim Daegyeong (김대경) on bass and Yu Jonggwang (유종광) on drums. The video was posted on the NONOL channel on March 29, 2023.