{"id":5507,"date":"2026-11-08T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/radar\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:48:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:48:42","slug":"sung-rak-choi-%ea%b8%b0%eb%b6%84%ec%a2%8b%ec%9d%80%eb%82%a0-review-an-aor-city-pop-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/radar\/sung-rak-choi-%ea%b8%b0%eb%b6%84%ec%a2%8b%ec%9d%80%eb%82%a0-review-an-aor-city-pop-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Sung Rak Choi \u2013 \uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0 Review \u2013 An AOR City Pop Album"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018\uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0\u2019 (A Good Day) opens \u2018THE AOR PROJECT\u2019, an eight-track album from Korean composer and keyboard player Sung Rak Choi (\ucd5c\uc131\ub77d). The album brings back the careful arrangements and refined harmony of 1980s and 1990s AOR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018\uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0\u2019 is bright, trading the lines \u2018\uc624\ub298\ucc98\ub7fc \uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0 \ubaa8\ub4e0\uac8c \ub2ec\ub77c\ubcf4\uc5ec\u2019 \u2013 on a good day like today everything looks different \u2013 and \u2018This is happy day, Your day my day\u2019. \uc815\uc591\ud638 on drums and JC Curve on bass play live. The album mixes English songs such as \u2018Drive My Car\u2019, \u2018Love Will Find a Way\u2019 and \u2018Morning Dance\u2019 with Korean songs such as \u2018Fly Away\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs written 20 years ago, now on record.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung Rak Choi led fusion jazz group Watercolor and Brazilian pop jazz group Another Season, writing and arranging Another Season\u2019s first album (2010) and second album \u2018Samba Da Felicidade\u2019 (2011). Most of these songs were written about 20 years ago, when Watercolor was starting out. Sung Rak Choi composed and arranged all eight, recorded, mixed and mastered them at Hanul Music Studio, and shared vocals with Chris M.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Put it on for a weekend afternoon drive. Fans of \uae40\ud604\ucca0, \ube5b\uacfc \uc18c\uae08 or Tatsuro Yamashita will hear the link straight away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#CityPop #AOR #KoreanJazz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018\uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0\u2019 (A Good Day) opens \u2018THE AOR PROJECT\u2019, an eight-track album from Korean composer and keyboard player Sung Rak Choi (\ucd5c\uc131\ub77d). The album brings back the careful arrangements and refined harmony of 1980s and 1990s AOR. \u2018\uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0\u2019 is bright, trading the lines \u2018\uc624\ub298\ucc98\ub7fc \uae30\ubd84\uc88b\uc740\ub0a0 \ubaa8\ub4e0\uac8c \ub2ec\ub77c\ubcf4\uc5ec\u2019 \u2013 on a good day like today everything looks different \u2013 and \u2018This is happy day, Your day my day\u2019. \uc815\uc591\ud638 on drums and JC Curve on bass play live. 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