Midnight In A Perfect World: Lucy Liyou

Midnight In A Perfect World
01/03/2022
Alex Ruder
photo by Jason Carberry

Lucy Liyou is a Philadelphia-based Korean-American musician and sound collagist creating powerful sonic narratives through a cerebral blend of piano, field recordings, text-to-speech readings, poetry, and elements from Korean television dramas, Korean folk opera, and the Korean tradition of musical storytelling known as pansori. Frequently exploring complex, captivating, and challenging thematic terrain, Lucy's breakthrough album Welfare was released in March 2020 on the Ijn Inc. label run by fellow experimental artist Klein, and they've stayed busy in 2021 with a few new offerings including a new album Practice on Full Spectrum Records that was recorded in the fall of 2020 while they were staying with family in Seattle.

Lucy's guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World is an immersive journey through ambient, experimental, jazz, and R&B textures that floats and twists into unpredictable territory in dreamlike fashion.

 

 

 

Artist Title
Midnight In A Perfect World Intro
More Eaze leave
Himera I Planted This Flower For You!
Sea Oleena Will I Know
Banana Fish Ash and Eiji
Teams OVOXO SHANTI TRUSS EDIT
Kazuma Matsui inter 1
Gretchen Korsmo Really Good at Digging Holes
Andrew Weathers Two Nights in Las Vegas
Day26 Co-star
Space Afrika Like Orchids
Patrick Shiroishi The Long Bright Dark
The Handmaiden So This was the Scent
Lucy Liyou Sung
L'Rain Fly, Die
L'Rain Find It
Mister Lies Heart Food
Elysia Crampton Grove (feat. Embaci)


Midnight in a Perfect World, KEXP’s weekly hour-long guest DJ show, airs Fridays at midnight. This multi-genre program features eclectic sets by a rotating cast of international and local DJ’s, each building upon a party vibe to kick off your weekend. Midnight in a Perfect World is made possible with support from New Belgium Brewing.

 

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