《Quoted lyrics from Jeon Young-Rok and learned from Jo Deok-Bae's singing method. Referred to Noh Sayeon and Simon and Garfunkel when composing. They dreamed of making an album like Beach Boys' 'Pet Sounds (1996)'. They turn 27 this year. The 5 friends born in 1992 seem to really like things old-fashioned. This is about 'Jannabi'. After Hyukoh, this is the biggest outbreak in the indie scene. The ballad 'For Lovers Who Hesitate' from their 2nd album 'Legend' which was released last month ranked first on music charts, even amongst idols they're still within the 10s for a month now. Their first nationwide tour was completely sold out. 》
The guitar Kim Dohyung is using is a 1964 model just like the one John Lennon used. He uses it to bring out an old sound Choi Junghoon (vocal) who we met in a cafe in Seoul Mapo-gu took out his 'Samsung Magic Hole' on the table. It's a flip phone that came out in 2009. It's a feature phone so he can't even use Kakao Talk. Using 2G in a 5G world.
“I started using it since 2017. So I can focus more on album production.”
Jannabi seems to keep going back in time. 'Legend' was made like a masterpiece from half a century ago. Seven-membered children choir, a concert band, soprano, and the flute solo that flickers between the 1980 style melody. And they worked with a 10-membered string band from Nashville, USA remotely from Seoul.
Jannabi who debuted in 2014 were hot in the indie scene. A bunch of hardcore fans stayed up all night, 20 hours before the concert to take the front seats. Instead of looking away they put their life on line to make one masterpiece.
"We spent all the money we have saved after debut on this album. We worked on the album while staying in our studio in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do for almost an entire year.”(Choi Junghoon)
Kim Dohyung(guitar) said “it felt like we were living with something on our chest for the whole year”. Choi Junghoon was insomniac. “I have to sleep”his torturous obsession can be seen later in the album. A dream rock medley ‘Geum Ui Hwan Hyang’ ‘Bad Dreams’ ‘Land of Night’. “I really admire The Beatles' psychedelic rock” it's a highlight that suits them.
Along with sleep, and dreams a topic that keep showing up in their lyrics is ‘A child who became an adult’. The five members grew up together in Bundang-gu. Beach Boys' California, The Beatles' Penny Lane to them it's Bundang's ‘Dolamro’.
“it's quite an uncool place full of apartments, shops and cram schools. A bit inappropriate for the rebellious rock star's stage that I dreamt of in middle school….”(Kim Dohyung)
They missed that time, and wrote a song called ‘DOLMARO’. ‘How did we become adults, every day is a heavy burden.’ it's the lyrics of the last track ‘Dreams, Books, Power and Walls’.
They who look up to Lee Young-hoon's music have achieved their dreams. Last year they participated in Lee Moonse's 16th album as composers.
“When writing ‘For Lovers Who Hesitate’ We listened to Noh Sayeon's ‘The Meeting’ and ‘Careless Love’, and Choi Jinhee's ‘Love Maze’ a lot. Our lifelong dream is to make a song with Kim Changwan.”(Yoo Younghyun·Keyboards)
Jannabi likes old stuff. That's why they refer to themselves as ‘Group Sound’. Even their success looks like clothes that don't fit them, they looked very nervous. The lyrics of ‘Together!’ ‘whose sad dream is to become a crane only if one folds a thousand of them’ was derived from Jeon Young-rok's 'Paper Crane'. They called Jeon Young-rok's manager personally to take permission to use it. They said it's as if they're dreaming.
“compared to musicians around our age we look like we're a little behind, but we're proud of ourselves. We just hope our youth can be looked back at passionately. whilst think 'it really is a legendary story'.
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