EBS Amplifier Now (Amplifier Now).
EBS’s flagship music program, which has been running for over twenty years.
That may be a short history compared to radio or music programs that have been running for several decades, but it has strengths of its own. Since it is run by EBS, an educational broadcaster, the producers invite artists according to their own opinions and convictions, without thinking about profits or topicality ‘at all.’
It also takes place in a very small venue with around 200 seats. To put it slightly dramatically, it is a program where everything is performed live without playing even a single backing track, from a distance close enough to see a musician’s pores. In some ways obsessive, and in others a pure test of a musician’s abilities.
In other words, it is not a program where the biggest musicians in the world appear.
Overseas artists who tour the world before becoming global stars, like Jason Mraz and Twenty One Pilots; musicians who are famous abroad but not in Korea, like LOUNDESS and Fourplay; and indie artists who have not shone yet but are clearly destined to succeed.
It was a program famous for inviting people whose names were not yet known in Korea.
But conversely, that meant it was also an opportunity. Even if it was an educational program, it was still broadcast television. On top of that, it was already famous for its high-quality productions. It could be called one step toward entering the mainstream…
EBS Amplifier Now was a program in that position.
After saying that he would discuss it with the label, he hung up. There was no way the company would oppose an opportunity like this, so his decision would become the band’s decision and the company’s decision as well—probably, anyway. He technically had no need to discuss it with the company...
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