OUT NOW: Home – Song Yi Jeon & Vinicius Gomes
It’s release day for Greenleaf’s newest artists! That’s right: the new album Home by vocalist Song Yi Jeon & guitarist Vinicius Gomes is out now
Here’s some of what Song Yi and Vinicius say about their album, in the liner notes:
‘The journey documented here has helped us identify the many meanings of the word “Home” as the identity we carry wherever we are: our values, our story, our past, present and future. We hope the listener will join us on this journey and be inspired to look for the common points we all share, and reflect on their own take on what “Home” is.’
In today’s polarized world we live in, people seem to be drifting further away from each other everyday. Isolating themselves in their “bubbles”, avoiding the inevitable reflection on how to reconcile their cultural, social and ideological differences, we are instead deepening the abyss that divides society in so many ways and weakens our ability to achieve dialogue.
The music on this record is exactly the opposite of that. Its strength comes from the meeting of two people from completely different cultures / backgrounds / life stories that demonstrate that even if you’re coming from practically opposite directions, you can still meet at a common point. In our case one that manifests itself in the way we interpret each other’s compositions, in how we interact and improvise together, and in the shared aesthetic sense that makes us gravitate toward pieces by other composers we explore.
The journey documented here has helped us identify the many meanings of the word “Home” as the identity we carry wherever we are: our values, our story, our past, present and future. We hope the listener will join us on this journey and be inspired to look for the common points we all share, and reflect on their own take on what “Home” is.
Buy and stream Home here or check it out the video excerpt below of track one, “Eleven Houses”: