Even before having the eyes to do so.
Within the water.
Within my mothers body. In this strange land.
I have lived most of my life in the spaces of becoming.
The inertia of the subway. The places of worship.
The line up at the airport.
To have faith in doubt. I am no longer waiting but still.
Set into the folds.
The location where inertia is shifted
from over there
to over here.
Like angels who sing their songs in harmony
with both the living and the non living.
JQILY is trying to articulate desire and longing for a loved one.
The return.
The departure.
The shape of a sound moving across the oceans.
Moving in simultaneous revolutions that come in and out.
To depend on distance.
The sound returns.
released May 13, 2022
Let It Be Desire was written, recorded, engineered, mixed and produced by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
and mastered by Harris Newman
Cover Art by Christopher Baliwas and Andrew Lee
www.christopherbaliwas.com
Let It Be Desire was recorded in several locations that include:
Faith In Doubt was recorded in Seoul, South Korea in 2018 and Brooklyn, NY in 2022
SONGS was recorded in Brooklyn, NY in 2021 and in Vancouver BC in 2022
JQILY was recorded in Vancouver, BC in 2017 and Brooklyn, NY in 2022
To Depend On Distance was recorded in Kihei, Hawaii in 2015,
Vancouver, BC in 2016 and again in 2022, and Brooklyn, NY in 2022
Faith In Doubt (17:03)
Written and performed by
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
Cello by Brian Chan
Violin by Tegan Wahlgren
Saxophone by Bryce Janssen
Mastered by Harris Newman
SONGS (3:56)
Written and performed by
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
Cello by Brian Chan
Violin by Tegan Wahlgren
Mastered by Harris Newman
JQILY (3:08)
Written and performed by
Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
Mastered by Harris Newman
To Depend On Distance (7:51)
Written and performed
by Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
Cello by Brian Chan
Violin by Tegan Wahlgren
Mastered by Harris Newman
©+℗ Andrew Yong Hoon Lee 2022
Without you this record would not have been possible:
Jacqueline Klassen, Aera, Yoo Duk Lee, Joo Won Lee, Austin Lee, Akiko, Mirai, John, Brian, Marcia, Ben, Fred, Emilie, Landon, Khan Lee, Mr. Bowen, Chris Baliwas, Rahul Nair, Shaheen Qureshi, Ryan Flowers, Ash Poon, Robert Tornroos, Thomas Mader, Alex Zhang Hungtai, Paul Hiebert, Mark Soo, Bill Dietz, Matana Roberts, Kabir Carter, Marina Rosenfeld, Jace Clayton.