Maria Kim - Fotografia

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2019
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:13
Size: 139,1 MB
Art: Front

(2:49) 1. Samba de Uma Nota Só
(3:40) 2. Call Me
(4:34) 3. Fotografia
(3:30) 4. Desafinado
(5:09) 5. Ela é Carioca
(5:43) 6. Pra Machucar Meu Coração
(3:31) 7. So Danço Samba
(3:51) 8. Chega de Saudade
(4:54) 9. Garota de Ipanema
(2:34) 10. Doralice
(6:29) 11. Corcovado
(4:31) 12. Baubles, Bangles and Beads
(5:13) 13. Triste
(3:39) 14. O Pato

Piano player and vocalist. Maria Kim, a musician who perfectly plays these two roles and who constantly conceives of various projects, has returned with [Fotografia], an album containing Brazilian masterpieces. She started jazz and chose two instruments, piano and vocal, while listening to the music of multi-instrumentalist musicians such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, Eliane Elias, Joao Gilberto, and Gilberto Gil to learn about the organic harmony of melody, harmony, and rhythm.

It was from thinking about it. Like other albums she has conducted so far, Bossa Nova songs using simple but symbolic and lyrical motifs to capture the aesthetics of minimalism that Maria Kim pursues serve as a perfect canvas. As symbolized by Fotografia, the title song of this project and a song that depicts a couple at the beach at sunset as if looking at a picture, Maria Kim expresses a way that her music can convey more words to listeners with fewer words, sometimes silently.

I thought about making it something special that would give comfort even when I was sitting back, and I tried to melt this warm message into the music. This album [Fotografia], which captures the sensibility of existing Brazilian music as it is, adds more splendid performance techniques, delicate recording techniques, and modern arrangements. It is an album that shows the essence of MPB (Musica Popular Brasileira) grafted with. Translate By Google
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Fotografia

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Maria Kim - With Strings: Dream of You

Styles: Vocal
Year: 2021
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 43:31
Size: 100,1 MB
Art: Front

(3:05) 1. Dream Of You
(5:23) 2. Dancing In The Dark
(3:31) 3. Almost Like Being In Love
(5:47) 4. You Don't Know What Love Is
(4:39) 5. Embraceable You
(2:45) 6. Give Me The Simple Life
(6:00) 7. I Left My Heart In San Francisco
(4:20) 8. It's All Right With Me
(4:03) 9. 'S Wonderful
(3:54) 10. What's New

An original, lyrical soloist and a demanding group leader, Maria Kim is a dynamic singer, pianist and composer. Maria Kim grew up in South Korea, and took up the piano at the age of 3; 12 years later she was singing and playing the piano professionally throughout South Korea as the youngest jazz vocalist and pianist.

When she was 18yrs old, Maria Kim won 1st Place in Vocals and a scholarship from the Berklee College of Music World Scholarship Tour held in South Korea. She moved to Boston in 2006, and there she performed weekly gigs with the Berklee professors as well as attending school there.

After Berklee, Maria Kim enrolled in the New England Conservatory of Music where she studied under Ken Schaphorst, Ran Blake and Dominique Eade. She performed with Irene Aebi, Dave Holland, Ran Blake, and Steve Swallow, and started to develop her own unique style combined with free jazz.

Free jazz pianist and legend, Ran Blake, noted "Maria Kim is very special and one of the greatest singers I've played with."

Based on her career throughout South Korea and the United States, she set her musical direction to, "Not a single note wasted". Her music is a battle of two different egos within herself; Calm, dispassionate contemplation of her piano playing and the fearless vocalist exploring promptly to reach the perfect note, harmony and rhythm.

In 2013, Maria Kim became the first person to win two sections of Jazz People Magazine's "Rising Star" award for piano and vocal. She released her album which she directed, composed, wrote lyrics, played piano and sang. She was also selected as the "2016 New Face of Korean Jazz" by EBS Gonggam.

In 2017, accompanied by Yoonseung Cho, the first Korean Monk Institute graduate, Maria Kim released her new album "I'm Old Fashioned". Jazz critics had this to say about the new album:

"Whenever, wherever, with whoever you listen to this album, it gives that thrilling heart warming moment. This is something we call the jazz magic" ~ Jiho Choi

"Why is the dense reinterpretation so important in Jazz field? [I'm Old Fashioned] contains one possibility." ~ Kyoungjun Lee

In 2018 She release the first jazz vocal duet album in Korea with the male vocalist Sung Huh through Sony Music Korea. This album "I Want to Be Happy" was selected as one of the Jazz People magazine’s 2018 top 10 jazz album.

With Strings: Dream of You

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Maria Kim - Stellive Vol.16 Two for the Road

Styles: Vocal And Piano Jazz
Year: 2022
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:40
Size: 137,0 MB
Art: Front

(4:19) 1. Basin Street Blues
(5:55) 2. Better Than Anything
(6:25) 3. Walkin’ After Midnight
(6:43) 4. Two For The Road
(4:58) 5. Centerpiece
(2:59) 6. Bitter With The Sweet
(6:44) 7. So Many Stars
(4:37) 8. Got To Get You Into My Life
(8:31) 9. Home (When Shadows Fall)
(8:23) 10. Lost In The Stars

Maria Kim is steadily consolidating her position in many ways. She has been active since 2010, and at the beginning of this year, her album was selected as the best jazz vocal album at the 19th Korean Popular Music Awards, which must have gained momentum internally. , released this time as her driving force, is a live performance performed as a simple duo with her bassist Kim Dae-ho.

Maria Kim is basically a vocalist with a minor voice. She also has a subtle soft vibrato (especially her 9th song 'Home') and impressive stable piano playing (especially her 10th song 'Lost in the stars') . Because she has a soft voice, her early bossa nova works were well embedded in her voice. Her previous work, , was also a wise choice, as the string sound in the background complemented Maria Kim's voice in the background, bringing out a rich overall sound.

Judging from his career, he is well aware of his strengths and weaknesses, and thinks he has produced results accordingly, but the partner he chose for this work is bassist Daeho Kim. She may have her long-standing partnership with him, but I think her round and stable walking base that he has puts her in a very comfortable state. In November 2020, this piece contains sound sources recorded live by Stellive, a professional live performance agency, Miles Davis' famous performance 'Basin Street Blues', Henry Mancini's 'Two for the Road', Serge Mendes' 'So Many Stars' ', Carol King's 'Bitter with the Sweet', and The Beatles' 'Got to Get You Into My Life'.

Above all, what was particularly impressive in this work was that the sensitivity and interpretation of the songs buried in her songs were more intimate and resonant than I thought. Her selected standard numbers are by no means sung by taking common and easy songs, and she tries her musical challenge by presenting a deeper and more meaningful interpretation than her previous works in both her arrangement and improvisation. do. However, from a vocalist's point of view, it is a bit regrettable that her vocalization is not as rich and elegant as the song's interpretation idea and scat's approach, but even taking that into account, in terms of musical content I think that this work is rather better than the last string album, and there is a glimpse of sincere depth.
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Personnel: Piano/Vocal : Maria Kim; Acoustic Bass: Daeho Kim

Stellive Vol.16 Two for the Road

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