Pure Ambient

Asian American musician and composer OHYUNG’s music is continuously shifting, investigating, and deconstructing the possibilities of form. Written and recorded mostly over just a 72-hour period, OHYUNG’s first album on NNA Tapes, the immersive and mesmerizing, imagine naked! focuses on expansion and atmospheric depth. It is a collection of loving ambient expressions of persistence, repetition, and variation.

Each song is titled after a line from t. tran le’s poem, “Vegetalscape,” which acts as an artistic companion to the album. The poem works to spotlight little things that le imparts beauty upon despite the challenges of living with mental illness, such as a bedroom garden, or a sibling’s voice singing in the shower. OHYUNG’s engulfing, gentle landscapes take on the context of something more literary than their wordless atmosphere—each line feels as though it informs the timbre of its connected piece—and they reflect le’s poem as these snapshots of small items and instances, and brief melodies are appreciated and made beautiful beyond their size.

The music of imagine naked! is full and complex, each track using its time to articulate an entire spectrum of lived emotion with remarkable elegance and simplicity. Some of the songs...  more
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released April 22, 2022

album title and song names from the poem ‘vegetalscape’ by the wonderful t. tran le

☺ please note: all digital downloads come with a bonus PDF version of 'vegetalscape' by t. tran le ☺

album art by the amazing aldrin valdez

symphonies sweeping!

DINORWIC

Flora

Wind Echo

Maple Syrup Factory

Adelaide

Limitless Frame

Something Inside My Body

In Distance Pavilion

Hiraeth

Stars on the ground

Nøkken

The Return to Iceland

Melt

Within the heartbeat of stars

Waning Traces

Movie Encore

7 minutes

145 - Remnants of a Soft Mirage

Adelaide

Hiroshi Yoshimura

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