What most obviously define this collection, though, are Jungr's husky alto – gentle but rich, pure yet at times beautifully cracked – and the spare, jazz-inflected arrangements by the singer and her long-time collaborator, the pianist Simon Wallace.
"Haembeogeo," a gentle, vowel-rich voice announced after a few seconds of searching, as both English and Hangul script appeared on the display above my right eye.
But much of this gentle, crafted record, rich with west African shimmers, harks back tonally to Graceland, Simon's game-changing release of 1986.
Another Weekend reader recommendation, this thick, unctuous cream is made from honey, rosewater, iris and almond oil for a rich, gentle cleanse.
So begins a journey rich in gentle truths and intergalactic possibilities.
He sings in English, Italian and Spanish, with a baritone that's both rich and gentle, and he embraces big melodies and unabashed sentimentality.
With his five-piece ensemble at Symphony Space, he created a gentle, cross-hatched sound, rich with finger-picking rhythms and heavily rooted in major tonic chords.
At face value the harsh jungle setting of the novel, where even the trees are toxic - the poisonwoods of the title - is as far from the rich and gentle Appalachians as you could imagine, as is Nathan Price and his warring family from Kingsolver's own brood.
In San Antonio, Texas, they sang a song that John Hartford said he wrote in thirty minutes after watching the train-rich "Doctor Zhivago": "Gentle on My Mind".
It can sound like a gentle nylon-string acoustic, a rich 12-string folk guitar, a screaming heavy-metal ax — even an organ or a string section.
