Yoo Chae-hoon - 3rd mini album [Sfumato]

There are no ‘boundaries’ in my music Yoo Chae-hoon’s third solo EP “Sfumato” There is consistency in solo Yoo Chae-hoon's actions. The point is that he is not bound by his starting point as a vocalist. This contrasts sharply with showing a full-fledged tenor as the leader of La Poem. Perhaps the purpose of Yoo Chae-hoon's solo career was his desire for popular music. You become a ‘singer’ rather than a vocalist. His actions are in a different context from the so-called ‘crossover’, which brings together two disparate styles. When she sings a pretty ballad, she becomes a singer who fits the song, and when she sings a passionate song, she pours out her raw and rough emotions. He erases the ‘boundaries’ about music and becomes the vocalist who best suits the song he sings. The variety of genres and styles he sings are not the vocalist's affair, but the essence of singer Yoo Chae-hoon's approach to the song. Like the previous album title “Impasto,” this album title “Sfumato” is also an art term. The meaning is this: ‘Sfumato: A light and dark method that changes colors subtly, like fog, allowing them to move naturally so that the outlines between colors cannot be clearly distinguished.’ The album title contains the meaning of showing various genres of music without boundaries, like the ‘sfumato’ technique that blurs the outlines of colors. And the five songs included in the album follow the meaning of the title very faithfully. Although the five songs are tightly connected by Yoo Chae-hoon's strong vocals and soft emotions, each song is colored in a different style. Among the five songs, ‘Summer Poetry’ was selected as the title song. The song introduction I received was a poem. ‘Love in the summer has always been like that. ‘It’s like a pouring shower, a lie, or a song.’ Yoo Chae-hoon sang about that summer love like a poem that everyone would have loved. The shining scenes in my saved memories seep into my ears like a warm recitation. ‘Wildflowers’, which opens the album, is solemn and majestic. It is a remake of singer Jang Sa-ik's representative song. By adding magnificent strings and brass to the sensibility of the original song, it was expressed with a different sensibility. What is Korean traditional music and what is vocal music? The attempts at rock style shown in ‘Journey’ and ‘Dream’ are also new. ‘Journey’ is a cool pop rock sound, and ‘Dream’ is an emotional alter rock sound. ‘Journey’ brightly expresses the firm determination to find a way back to ‘you’, and ‘Dream’ also contains the positive consolation of being together and brightening the future. ‘City Sound’, located at the end, contains Yoo Chae-hoon’s own story. Unlike the romantic and positive feelings shown in the previous songs, a dark atmosphere fills the song. Yoo Chae-hoon's rough vocals, which seem to be filled with anger, are impressive. Yoo Chae-hoon, who came to Seoul to pursue his dream, sang about the difficult reality but still his love for the city that he could not leave. It contains a strong will to fill the city he loves with his voice.