안녕…
Adios…
Farewell… =(

Blue Night, after 10 months and 10 days… is now OVER. DONE. FINISHED.
(wow 10 months and 10 days, I’m sure Alex has ‘nothing’ to do with this~)

His last presents…

Bye, bye DJ Algoon & Blue Night.
You’ll be missed.

His songlist for the last recording is so… gloomy, but yet, perfectly ‘composed’.
From Sung Shi Kyung’s 안녕 안녕… to Dynamic Duo’s Solo, and ahhh…
Crapz, they change the website already… so quickly! >_>
*and what the heck, his voice sounds different. Is he sniffling? o_O*
Can’t get the songlist…ahhh, me is very sad! =(

Sigh.

Now let me sulk for a bit… sigh… =(

Ah, what a sad news :(
BOO~

MBC Radio, DJ restructuring … Kim Seong Ju, Announcer Lee So Ra and Alex.

To reduce the cost and also because of the world’s recession, MBC cuts down its radio programs. Some of the DJs that are leaving include Lee So Ra, Kim Seong Ju and Alex for his midnight show, “Blue Night”. This will put in effect starting April 13.

The large-scale reorganization of their structure will be readjusted. Some DJs are not kept, but some of them will be replaced, including Lee So Ra’s program (to be replaced by actress Kim Hyun Joo)

BOO~~~ so sad :( I didn’t expect this, though I know Alex won’t be doing “Blue Night” forever. Glad to know that we have a few days to prepare >_> and I’m glad I’ve been able to faithfully reencode and upload his show since it started last June. I guess Alex will be busy with “On Air Season 3″ starting on the 14th, so it’s only right to exit the midnight show to prepare for this big one (since “On Air” will be going on until sometime in June)

알&바비
^_^

아이구… 아이구… so cuteee lol
and is that Alex’s new hairstyle again?
Definitely looks younger than the ‘married’ days… haha..
Bobby Kim is a ‘73-er, so that makes him a 형님 to Alex ^^
so Bobby 형님 and Alex 동생 mwahaha…

As a part of his new album promotion, Bobby Kim has been around the music shows nowadays. When I saw him on Lee Hana’s Peppermint, I knew sooner or later he’d come up on Blue Night with our Alex :) and he did, last night. (And yup, they even talked about Shinae too *giggles* ah Alex likes to tease us a lot :P so I just rolled my eyes and giggled a little when he mentioned that Shinae likes Bobby Kim’s songs, in particular from this newest album, Love Chapter 1.)

I haven’t really listened to his album, but I like track 3 a lot :) so tonight, I was curious as to what he’s been up to. He was around the rap ‘underworld’, but then he came back and promoting a ballad album too? What the…? Weird guy~ lolz.

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Here’s a very good article I found on The Korea Herald in regards to his comeback and his “Special album: Love Chapter 1″

Doing it for the right reasons

Song Woong-ki
The Korea Herald
Publication Date: 30-01-2009

Bobby Kim is not your standard K-pop star. He does not have salon hair that might have set someone back a day’s wages nor does he look like a character straight out of a Japanese animation series. There is nothing generic or manufactured about him.

Labelled as his “special” album, his latest is a collection of contemporary ballads more in tune with classic singers like Barry Manilow and Billy Joel. Titled ‘Love Chapter No. 1′, the album is his cross-over of sorts. The songs were written for and not by him – a first in the 16 years he has been in music.

While some might accuse the 36 year-old of selling out, once they listen to the album, any doubt that he has failed to retain his identity will be tossed out the window.

Kim has been labelled the ‘Godfather of Soul’ throughout his career and it is a label he has been reluctant to accept.

“Maybe it’s because I’ve been in the game for so long, but I’ve never once considered myself ‘The Godfather of Soul.’ That’s James Brown, not Bobby Kim. I’m just a regular Joe just doing my music. It’s disturbing when I hear people in the domestic media call me that,” Kim said in an interview with The Korea Herald.

“I’ve also been called the grandfather of rap which I actually like because I’ve been around for so long that I do feel like an old man now.”

Kim has been toiling away in the Korean music industry since 1992 when he crossed the Pacific from San Francisco, to realise his dreams as a singer-songwriter here. He has seen many ups and downs writing music not just for himself but for other artists – from a failed boy band to a struggling solo artist, he’s been there and done that. But all this has led Kim to steadily build his career with humility.

“I want to be modest as a musician. I don’t want to be labelled anything. I just want to make my music and let it be known to the public.”

In this age of irreverence and irony, so-called artistic integrity is considered for chumps and naive idealists. The consensus is there is no honour in creation of something new, something different, the honor is in the won.

But among the heap of cookie-cutter Korean boy bands and assembly-line girl groups, Bobby Kim has been part of a posse of artists who have stuck to their guns. This community of artists known as ‘The Movement’ has flown under the mainstream radar for over a decade.

Formed mostly by hip-hop, soul and R&B artists, the concept of this content-focused group was spearheaded by Tiger JK of hip-hop group Drunken Tiger.

Kim, one of the key members of ‘The Movement’, has devoted himself and his craft to abiding by the rule of content-first and everything else later. But in an industry where there is no market for anything other than what is “in” at the moment, sometimes, compromises must be made.

So for the time being, Bobby Kim has abandoned his musical bread and butter of the soul and R&B genre – genres his entire career has been devoted to.

During the interview, Kim spoke about his new album, view on music and other things.

KH: The new joint ‘Love Chapter No. 1′, consists of songs written for you. Being a songwriter most of your career, were you hesitant to accept?

BK: I wanted to change direction and just focus on the vocals. I’m usually writing my own stories so you can say I debuted on this album as an actor because I was interpreting lyrics and music that I didn’t write. It was a good experience.

KH: Do you feel your style of music is too progressive for the public to embrace and was that the reason you accepted songs written for you?

BK: I don’t think my music is ahead of its time, but I do think it’s different from the rest of what’s out there right now. I grew up half my life in America and the other half here in Korea so I think that’s why my music is different from everyone else’s. It’s sort of a Koreanised Americanized style that’s been fused together that’s become representative of my music. Everyone’s in the struggle hustling these days so with my new album I wanted to ease it down a bit so it could be more accessible and easier to listen to.

KH: When is the third album going to drop?

BK: My third album’s coming out in late fall or early winter this year and this new record is sort of my present to the public with these easy listening love ballads that’s more digestible than my previous stuff. The third album will revert back to my old sound, Bobby Kim-style.

KH: How is the music industry different now compared to when you started your career?

BK: Album sales dropped tremendously. We have people because of that fact selling out doing music for the internet. Good musicians are not making the music that they want to because the industry is in such a bad shape due to album sales spiraling down that bottomless pit. But I still see a lot of musicians trying to make good music and keeping their artistic integrity in tact. But these days it’s like this: less concerts, less promotions, but more facial operations because if they can’t pull it off with their music, they’ve at least gotta be good looking.

KH: Words to your fans?

BK: Hopefully I made this project album that fits this cold winter season. It’s laid back, easy listening love songs. Also, I’ll be working on my third solo project that should be coming out around fall or early winter. Be healthy, positive, and be happy that you’re living today, not tomorrow, but today.

First of, BIG Thanks to dearest _shin_ for this bringing this up to my attention <3

What are the chances? This song, Still With You was on Blue Night a couple week nights ago, and one of Jazzholic’s avid readers also brought this site to my attention (yes, Alex did a freestyle in that dark room, keke..  totally awesome nonetheless), and now, on the first day of 2009, Alex and Na Yoon Kwon AND YIRUMA gave us this special present as the opening song?  *dies* This is just too…. wonderful.  *happy blissful sigh*

(I know how much Alex loves this song, but I dare not to dream that he sang it live on Blue Night.  Thank YOU, Algoon. Happy New Year to you too! MORE POWER & SUCCESS & LOVE ^^)

FULL BLUE NIGHT [ DL LINK part 1 ] (57 mins 54 secs)

With Yiruma on the piano, together with Alex & Na Yoon Kwon, singing this beautiful, Eric Benet’s song on Blue Night’s opening is an absolute MAGICAL moment.  I just hope this picture would give the complete mental picture in our head of how the three of them this song justice last night. Isn’t Blue Night so awesome?! ^^

A closer look of the man behind the piano… YIRUMA <3