About Huckleberry Finn

Being an axis to their band, Lee Ki Young who both writes and composes music, started a band under the name of Huckleberry Finn at hip clubs near Hong Ik University in 1997. As a core part of "Indi music" in Korea starting mid 1990s along with Crying Nut, Deli Spice, Kokoer and Sister's barbershop, Huckleberry Finn (허클베리 핀) is a representative of Korean Indi Rock band. Huckleberry Finn certainly walked one road for 10years pursuing their distinctive Rock music. Leader as well as the brain of Huckleberry Finn, Lee Ki Young is highly appraised from executives of the music industry as one of the best Singer songwriters in Korea. One of the most attractive eminences of Huckleberry Finn is their alluring voice of female vocal with strong charisma. "18th Wednesday", the first record released in 1998 with Nam Sang Ah, the previous vocal is now part of another band named "Line #3 Butterfly." Starting the 2nd album, Lee So Young joined Huckleberry Finn as main female vocal. She is famous of her neutral voice color and her powerful singing at live concerts. Songs in "18th Wednesday" can be categorized as Grunge or Alternative. Distinctive quality of Huckleberry Finn's music world as well as outstanding completion of the album was a great hit with profound lyrics that throbbed people's heart. Huckleberry Finn was a sensation among Indi bands. This album ranked 86 of "100 Korean Best Pop Song albums of 20th century," which was assessed by critics and executives of music industry. With Lee So Young and Kim Yun Tae, Huckleberry Finn released the 2nd album under the title, "A guy who resembles me" in 2001. This album shows the possibility of growth and diversity of Huckleberry Finn's music. Additional to the straightforward and powerful music of Huckleberry Finn's first single, lyrical sense adds to their music color on the 3rd album. The quality of music is growing and due to Violin and Viola functioned as key part of a few songs, Huckleberry Finn got to pursue their own distinctive music different from other Indi bands. A song called "Desert" in this album always gave greatest finale at live performances and received absolute support from the fans. Huckleberry Finn's third Album, "Star of Olympio" was released in 2004 with more grown and outstanding music quality. This album has been nominated as "This year's album", "This year's musician (Group)" and "This year's best Modern Rock" of "Korean Pop Music award" in 2004, which will be announced at the end of March. Huckleberry Finn has been highly praised of their value in media including daily newspapers (Chosun, Moon Hwa, Han Gyu rae and many more). This shows great support and appreciation of the fans and music related people regarding Huckleberry Finn's unique music color in outstanding completion. Lyrical sense in powerful sound might appear alienated from each other, however; only through Huckleberry Finn, the two colors of music can be well harmonized and still plays great role of their music at present. Huckleberry Finn is currently preparing for their 4th album and also planning to release their first EP record in September. 2. Main Performance Performances 1997년 Huckleberry Finn was formed. 2000년 Guest of American Band, "Seam" Seoul performance -Performance at Yonsei University under the theme of Helping the Club Rolling stones -Guest Performance at prerelease of movie -Invited to Pusan International Rock Festival -Invited to 'Bae Chul Soo's Music Camp at MBC Radio 2001년 ?Boochun International Fantastic Movie festival 2001 cine Rock Night performance -Independent Art Festival ending performance -Third Ssamzie Sound Festival performance 2002년 Pohang MBC Rock! Rock! Rock! Concert performance -Fringe Festival performance -Gwangju '5.18 Cultural Festival' performance -Invited to NATE Rock Festival 2003년 -Live Addiction Jung Dong theater performance -Invited to Culture Parade (Love Seoul Culture Parade) 2004년 ?Invited to Gwangju Biennale -Invited to Daegu MBC Tele-concert -Sixth Ssamzie Sound Festival performance -Invited to 'Bae Chul Soo's Music Camp at MBC Radio -Opened Huckleberry Finn's own Concert- "Yellow Concert" 2005년 -Invited to EBS program -Nominated in three different categories of the Second 'Korean Pop Music award'/ also performed Swallow 1. A Short Introduction Swallow is Solo project band that Lee Ki Young has organized in 2003. Lee Ki Young had a chance to make the music of minimal funk rock come true by chance when waiting for Huckleberry Finn's third album. As a government organization, Korea Culture Contents National Editorial Association supports the production of the Indi Rock music and Lee Ki Young was selected. He went into production right away and after six months, presented the album 'Sun Insane'. This album was widely supported by critics, manias and fans with great appraisal. Lee Ki Young wanted to present a more personal and private music than the music of Huckleberry Finn in 'Sun Insane'. This album has its characteristic, which shows a very lyrical sense with melancholy feel in overall. Lyrics mainly talking about personal depression and alienation were presented only through Elec guitar and vocal, Guitar and Violin and sometimes in just piano and vocal. Through these reductions in the use of instruments maximizes the sadness and private sense of the music. Through small, but solid musical success, Swallow is preparing for their second album that will probably arrive at the end of this year. 2. Main Performance 2004년 -Album release showcase performance -A lot of Club performances -Sponsored movie, 'The Last Wolf' with 'A few misunderstandings' 2005년 -club Ssamzie Space performance regularly A Short Introduction to Sha Label Lee Ki Young has organized 'Sha Label' on the purpose of releasing Huckleberry Finn's album with members- Lee So Young and Kim Yun Tae in April, 2004. Presently, Sha Label has both released and has ownership of copyrights of '18th Wednesday' and 'Star of Olympio' of Huckleberry Finn and 'Sun Insane' of Swallow. The 2nd Album, 'A guy who assembles me' will also be part of the copyright of Sha Label in September, 2006. (с) http://huckleberryfinn.co.kr/english.html