Drinking Boys and Girls Choir - Not Red (2023)

DBGC collaboration project ’Hey, Listen to Me’ with three female artists based in Daegu. Availablie exclusively “We’ve lived completely different lives, but we’re connected somewhere.“ ’Hey, Listen to Me’ is a collaboration project with punk band Drinking Boys and Girls Choir and three artists - Kim Seoul, Minjung Kim, and Mi-so, which expresses their personal and common feelings as female creators in Daegu through music and art exhibitions. Drinking Boys and Girls Choir wrote each song about the story of the three artists. Jang Young-eun, guitarist and vocalist of the band igloo, participated in the musical arrangement with an attempt to make something different to previously released music by Drinking Boys and Girls Choir. ’Not Red’ About the Artist - Mi-so Mi-so is based in Daegu and continues working there through various cultural and artistic activities. Mi-so collects and interprets stories about the lives and loss of others in the form of interviews, surveys, etc., captures them on the screen as part of the body, and records individual lives monumentally. About the Exhibition - What Others Have Lost The loss of others seen in this exhibition is a series of works under the theme of “Sorrow,“ which has continued since 2016. It was produced by interviewing MJ, Meena, and Han Jung-hoon, members of the Drinking Boys and Girls Choir, about their unresolved losses and memorable events in their lives. Unlike previous works that focused on each person’s story, images were overlaid and installed to show the relationship between the three people who worked in the same city and formed each other’s world together. About the Music - Not Red Among the long work notes recorded by Mi-so, Meena made a song based on the sentence “Red is not red“, a phrase that Mi-so’s grandmother said a long time ago. I wanted to tell the story that anyone can be a “Red“, and maybe I can be a “Red“ to someone else, just as the Red mentioned in the song is not red. About the Video The video was filmed at Sky Lab in Daemyung-dong, operated by the band Massalina. In this project, I tried to recreate the feeling of Mi-so’s art exhibition “What Others Have Lost“ with the members of Drinking Boys and Girls Choir overlapping in the music video. Released March 3, 2023 Credits: Music City - Myeongjin Kim Not Red - Meena Bae Hey, Listen to Me - Myeongjin Kim Lyrics City - Myeongjin Kim Not Red - Meena Bae Hey, Listen to Me - Meena Bae Arrangement Myeongjin Kim, Meena Bae, Jang Young-eun (of band igloo) Recorded by DBGC at Apple Music Academy Mixed and Mastered by Mingyu Kim of Electricmuse Film and Design by 0min film