Lua Ya cover

Lua Ya

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Before recording this gorgeous session with accordionist Rob Curto and pianist Aaron Parks, Korean singer Yeahwon Shin was known for her interpretations of Brazilian standards. Here, she pivots into a sequence of Korean children’s songs passed down by her mother—an ode to a musical family. What we hear from her bandmates was fashioned in the moment in a set that was uniquely recorded without breaks. Whether singing wordlessly (“Moving Clouds”) or in her mother tongue (“The Orchard Road”), she brings meaning to bear on every exhalation, leaving us comforted in the embrace of maternal regard.

Tyran Grillo

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