One year to the day since our last conversation, Samuel Seo comes to me as more of a visionary yet incredibly introspective.
Following his single with Babylon, twlv, MOON, BIBI, and Jiselle, Chancellor has added another 22 R&B artists to the “AUTOMATIC REMIX“.
I wanted this to be a short-ish review. None of the purple dramatics I tend to engage in when talking about music that really impacts me. But Samuel Seo’s latest release deserves the time to dissect. The second in his UNITY series, UNITY II sees Seo crafting and molding a genre he’s connected with into something viable in the landscape of South Korean music. He has quite literally “created” the neo-soul genre in South Korea
Samuel Seo has followed up his “UNITY” LP from two years ago with the “UNITY II” EP today. Studio lives of the two title tracks have come out as well.
“Sunrise,” the July Issue of Brown Tigger‘s Brown Monthly, is a song for the fans that features Samuel Seo. A music video has been released as well.
Producer and singer-songwriter EDEN has collaborated with Samuel Seo on “SOON,” the first part of his monthly “EDEN_STARDUST2” Project’s second season.
At this point you must be sick of me saying it. But I can’t help myself. Samuel Seo does NOT make bad albums. Every time he releases something it just reinforces my claims. His most recent EP, D I A L, taps into something earthier in the artist. While The Misfit was mostly bright, this five-song album is drenched in darker hues. Every bit of it’s just swimming in the earth tones of classic neo-soul.
Samuel Seo has released his new mini-album “D I A L” today. All five tracks were produced by archeformw, the featured artists include DAMYE and Yerin Baek.
P-TYPE has released his new single “Moonlighting (Feat. Samuel Seo)” today, a neo soul-style soundtrack for moody spring nights, produced by Keeproots.
As you all know by now, I have an immense respect for Samuel Seo as an artist. So it shouldn’t surprise anyone that when it comes to music recommendations, I take what he says seriously. Such was the case when he suggested multi-genre artist DAMYE during our chat. Listening to DAMYE’s music, then getting to know him, I was really ecstatic to have the chance to talk to him.