CHO GONG RAE - Linernotes
Cho Gong Rae is a celestial nymph, down on the grassland to sing her song. Her singing is a gentle, beautiful breeze, clear and vivid. Her singing voice creates a cool, refreshing steam in the air. Her everclear high note is filled with light but righ vitality, just like the chirping of the birds and brand new buds coming out in the early spring.
The voice of Cho Gong Rae has some kind of wildness in it, but It is not in the vein of any obvious primitive sensibility. It is something that one could feel the warmth and grace of wild nature. Her graceful, smooth voice is so intocxicating that you'd almost lost track of time. However, the root of her singing is always taking firm and deep in the ground. Just like a tree having weathered winds and rains and sunshine for ages, its green leaves fresh and strong, blossomes so lovely and its branches loaded down by fruits so lustrous. At times the tree would be a spirit who brings a mellow light into the forest and fills our hearts with joy and peace of mind.
Apparently with her past records, the voice of Cho Gong Rae allowed us to taste the joy of life. Her fascinating singing voice was already introduced to the audience overseas with the album "Chants rituels del'ile de Chindo"(VDE CD756). But there has nver been an album like this, which grasps her personality and her singing itself so straightforward. The fact that she's from Chindo, which has very distinctive nature of entertainment, perhaps ernders some background to create the core of her singing to a certain extent; but at the same time it cannot be that is the only aspent to raise her to what she is today. Such refreshing, still very much of earthbound, wherelse could we find a singer like this ? Neither only of Chindo, nor only of South Korean, it must be said that her song is a gem for all human being. Her beautiful voice melts all lust and greed of te world, streams through to purify our body and soul, There will always be a clear blue sky whenever and wherever Cho Gong Rae sings.
Manabu Yuasa - January 1995
조공례 - 방아타령
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