그동안 좋아하고 존경했던 많은 아티스트들, 함께 살거나 먹이를 주던 동물, 식물들이 우주로 돌아가고, 꽃들보단 미세먼지가 봄을 먼저 알리고, 눈이 내려도 신나지 않게 된 지금의 지구가, 마치 몇년간 방치되어 녹슬고 색이 바랜 놀이터처럼 느껴졌어요. 최초로 작업을 시작한 2018년 2월 이후, 시간이 흘러 이렇게 변화된 작품을 창작자이자 관찰자로서 함께 할 수 있어서 너무 좋았습니다. 이들을 만나게 되면 많이 아껴주시고 사랑을 듬뿍 주세요!


* 9번 트랙 “When Tomorrow Never Comes” 에 나오는 최재천 교수님의 목소리는 유튜브채널 최재천의 아마존 “지구 멸망까지 1분? 이번에 본 벚꽃이 마지막일지도 모른다! 기후위기!” 편에 나오는 것으로 원작자와 제작진의 허락과 동의를 얻어 삽입하였습니다.




Do you remember the far away echoes of the Tikar tribe? The guru cleared the throat and started singing…. shakers and drums were joining in….

Other sounds were following… from India… Israel…. cool trippy waves were coming and going by…… Dogs and beautiful creatures were running around…..

Did you feel gravity fading..? We were coming up and floating….. the air was escaping…. but we were all fine… calm and collected….

There was a band playing too… Were they rehearsing..? Bit messed up and sloppy but we liked…we were dancing to it….

Bugs, reptiles, trees, elephants, tigers, foxes, snakes and seeds were all rising up from the ground… some were still alive… still moving their bodies… complete gravity free… yet to come…?

Who was that voice saying about the future? Did anybody care? Why did he say things like that while kids were still at playground.. ? We were all safe and sound… No, no, even better then… We were floating like balloons…. so much fun like crayons and soldiers….

Where were we at then? What could you see? Was it visible…?

Was it still green and blue…? Did you hear the last sound?

Was it just a dream at 3 am..? Like teenage rock n’ roll dreams…?

If it is…. don’t close your eyes and watching it like fish while you can




About half of tunes had been laid down for a new album around 2018 and titled as Playground. Then, somehow they couldn’t find the right place to fit in for years, thus the songs were just being stuck in somewhere in my head and mind for long as an unfinished album. And the other half were written in 2020 to 2021. From February to March 2023, they were heavily being re-arranged, re-recorded, re-mixed, re-produced and re-ordered to put together as an album. With help from beautiful unexpected mistakes and strange errors, we got the luck, they’ve finally found the right sequence and home.
It was such a long, tough, touching and exciting trip. Thank you!