Unplugged Album (2)

Music flows through the rehearsal room. The song pours from the audio setup built with Hyein’s wholehearted support. It is calm enough, yet lively—the kind of music that makes you want to dance with your shadow as your partner against the backdrop of the evening sunset.

More dance dance dance, nobody’s noticed

Into more whimsical graffiti than Jemeos

More stay stay, throw away that righteousness of struggling from the bottom

Life isn’t long enough to waste on spite

As he listened to the song, he fell into thought for a moment. It was the sort of music he ‘originally’ wouldn’t have liked very much. But was it because of the influence of this body, or Iseo? Or had he simply become more open to different things? Well, whatever the reason, it was good that his perspective had broadened.

“The reason I asked you all to come is, as you may have heard from Hyuna…”

The college students quietly exchanged whispers. “Are you two on informal-speaking terms?” Hyuna’s ambiguous gesture made it unclear whether she was nodding or not. He simply ignored them and continued speaking.

“It’s because we want to record the Unplugged performance we did on Music Letter and release it as a digital recording. Originally, we planned to edit the live version and turn it into an audio release, but circumstances make that impossible. So we thought we might as well record the whole thing from scratch.”

Originally, he had planned to bring in a few ordinary professional session musicians. Not an orchestra, but an Unplugged setup with a band and a few string instruments. They would rehearse for a while, record it like an ordinary full-length album, and release it—a perfectly normal album production process using one or two percent for the session musicians...