Lucid Fall
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Lucid Fall is a Korean singer-songwriter. His birth name is Jo, Yun Suk (조윤석). He was a lead vocalist and guitarist in the band Misoni (미선이). He has released four studio album
s: Lucid Fall (2001), Oh, Love (2005), A Night at Border (2007) and the latest album, Les Misérables (2009), released in Korea on December 10, 2009.
Lucid Fall's musical style incorporates folk, pop, and bossanova. He uses a nylon guitar
as his primary instrument and is famous for poetic lyrics.
, South Korea. His family moved to Busan
where he spent most of his childhood and highschool. He graduated Seoul National University
majoring in chemical engineering
in 1999. He moved to Europe for his study and got a licentiate
of material science at Royal Institute of Technology
(KTH), Sweden
in 2004. He then moved to Lausanne
, Switzerland
and got his PhD in bioengineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(EPFL) in 2008, for research in drug delivery systems. In 2009, he came back to Korea for a life as a full-time musician, no longer pursuing an academic career.
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...
s: Lucid Fall (2001), Oh, Love (2005), A Night at Border (2007) and the latest album, Les Misérables (2009), released in Korea on December 10, 2009.
Lucid Fall's musical style incorporates folk, pop, and bossanova. He uses a nylon guitar
Classical guitar
The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
as his primary instrument and is famous for poetic lyrics.
Biography
Lucid Fall was born Yun Suk Jo (First name: Yun Suk, Last name: Jo) in 1975 in SeoulSeoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
, South Korea. His family moved to Busan
Busan
Busan , formerly spelled Pusan is South Korea's second largest metropolis after Seoul, with a population of around 3.6 million. The Metropolitan area population is 4,399,515 as of 2010. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world...
where he spent most of his childhood and highschool. He graduated Seoul National University
Seoul National University
Seoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...
majoring in chemical engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with physical science , and life sciences with mathematics and economics, to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms...
in 1999. He moved to Europe for his study and got a licentiate
Licentiate
Licentiate is the title of a person who holds an academic degree called a licence. The term may derive from the Latin licentia docendi, meaning permission to teach. The term may also derive from the Latin licentia ad practicandum, which signified someone who held a certificate of competence to...
of material science at Royal Institute of Technology
Royal Institute of Technology
The Royal Institute of Technology is a university in Stockholm, Sweden. KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest institutions of higher education in technology. KTH accounts for one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering education...
(KTH), Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
in 2004. He then moved to Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and got his PhD in bioengineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government with the stated mission to:...
(EPFL) in 2008, for research in drug delivery systems. In 2009, he came back to Korea for a life as a full-time musician, no longer pursuing an academic career.
Musical career
In 1993, Lucid Fall won the bronze award in the 5th Ryu Jae Ha Music Contest (유재하 음악경연대회) with the song "A Song of Mirror". He formed a modern rock band, Misoni, in 1997 as a vocalist and guitarist, and released the debut album Drifting in 1999. After activity of Misoni has been stopped for the members' military service, he formed the one man band Lucid Fall and released the self-titled album Lucid Fall in Radiomusic. He worked on the original soundtrack of the movie L'abri in 2002. In 2005, he released his second studio album, Oh, Love, and it brought him the title of best pop single at the third Korean Music Awards (2006). In 2007, he released a live album, Light of Songs, and a third studio album, A Night at Border. In December 2009, he released the fourth studio album Les Misérables.Studio albums
- Lucid Fall (2001)
- Oh, Love (오, 사랑)(2005)
- A Night at Border (국경의 밤) (2007)
- Les Misérables (레미제라블) (2009)
Awards
- Bronze prize, 5th Ryu Jae Ha Music contest (1993)
- The best pop single prize, 3rd Korean Music Awards (2006)