Youn Sun Nah: Lento (Limited Edition) (Transparent Green Vinyl) (180g) (LP)

"A miracle", "great art", "world-class singing" - the response to "Voyage" and "Same Girl", Youn Sun Nah's first two ACT albums, was unanimous. For a long time, no singer has taken the music world by storm like the Paris-based Korean. In France, "Same Girl" was the best-selling jazz album of 2011, Nah received the "Prix Mimi Perrin du Jazz Vocal" as Singer of the Year, the "Choc de l'annee" as Artist of the Year from the leading magazine Jazzman and was named "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et de Lettre" by the President of the Republic. In this country, Nah won the Echo Jazz as International Female Vocalist of the Year. All this is the consequence of Youn Sun Nah's ability to touch her audience in a unique way. The precision of her phrasing, her vocalizations and her intonation, as well as her absolute tempo control, are just the basis for a voice that develops its strongest expressive power in the quiet and slow moments. Consequently, Youn Sun Nah opens the next chapter of her career with the trend-setting title "Lento". Accompanied once again by her duet partner Ulf Wakenius on guitar, Sweden's Swedish bass magician Lars Danielsson and the sensitive percussionist Xavier Desandre-Navarre, as well as the new French accordion wizard Vincent Peirani, she once again creates her intimate, atmospheric, self-contained musical cosmos. Perhaps it took an outside perspective to wring a new note out of traditional jazz singing. Original and unconventional, yet completely effortless, Youn Sun Nah opens up new, highly appealing spaces for the all too often tastefully retro-oriented genre Genre new, highly appealing spaces. Anyone who understands the whole spectrum of professional art music as jazz today can, as "Lento" proves, see Youn Sun Nah as perhaps its most convincing vocal representative at present.