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May 28, 2020Okkyung Lee and her quartet strike a splendid balance between free-floating and uncomfortably tense, and the suspense is worth savoring. Audience members looking for solid resolution should keep looking.
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MojoMay 20, 2020Serene, mostly, where free improv is usually abrasive. [Jul 2020, p.88]
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May 20, 2020Okkyung Lee has delivered an album so achingly tender that it is bound to stand as one of this year's best neoclassical releases.
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May 20, 2020Flowing between formal tonality and structural dissolution, Lee reconciles her traditional musical upbringing with her subsequent expansion into free improvisation and avant-garde composition, and she finds an unusual beauty in juxtaposing the familiar character of popular and traditional music with experimental sound-making’s leap into the cosmic unknown.
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May 20, 2020Deceptively simple, yet holding a world of complexity within it, Yeo-Neun is airy abandon in parts and heavy sensitivity in others. Remarkably honest and creatively challenging, the album projects into a constant companion, whether with its unflinchingly beautiful musicality or its daring noisiness.