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         original and current line-up for HYDRAE reunite for      the first time in a decade in a special performance for                                                                                       jtbc’s super band.

despite the breathtaking and well praised performance in the beginning of the show, it seemed as if HYDRAE’s RIEN was far from ready to stop evoking a loud and emotional response from the audience, and both the older and the newest fans of the band had a rare opportunity to witness a performance that managed to deliver a perfect harmony between nostalgic and innovative as RIEN performed a brand new song, “909”, with the surprise feature of HYDRAE’s vocalist GUN, HYDRAE’s guitarist BEOM and HYDRAE’s drummer KURI, as well as HYDRAE’s former drummer, and current rapper for idol group 4U, jun, previously known as crash, and HYDRAE’s former guitarist, injun, who retired from the music industry to seek treatment for the untreated damaged in his hand nerves worsened by continuously playing the guitar. 

RIEN’s impressively emotional musical act featured a daring rhythmical line, airy synthesisers, the prominent resound of piano and the rarity of a muted guitar piece that differed completely from the band’s previous and more recent releases, yet, managed to appease and captivate fans and first time listeners with the poetic lyricism and the contrast between all the singers that lent their voices to compose this piece.

 it is a consensus that this performance provided the participants of the show with the most memorable example of what a super band truly is.

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             HYDRAE’s RIEN leaves netizens and  audience in an awe on his introductory performance as the new coach and judge of jtbc’s superband.

on september 9th, HYDRAE’s RIEN was introduced to the contestants and the public as the surprise last judge for the survivor program that aims to create a global band that is diverse and adaptable to diverse music styles. with almost a decade in the music industry, RIEN made a name for himself as a producer, composer, songwriter and musician, leading HYDRAE to become one of the only alternative rock bands to continuously rank on the top of the mainstream music charts.

while some arguably attribute HYDRAE’s success to RIEN’s constant presence in the small and big screen as an awarded actor and his good looks, his performance in the first episode of the show leaves little room to debate over his capabilities as a musician and many expectations for the future of the participants he chooses to guide.  

with a theoretical praiseworth rearranging of LANY’s dreamy masterpiece “ILYSB” into a slow paced halcyon, RIEN’s cover featured a gentle, backing saxophone and even a glass harmonica to accompany the fleeting bass undertone and the synth-heavy chorus. Perhaps, the biggest surprise of the evening was RIEN’s vocals; known for his deep, almost guttural sounding bass range, RIEN presented to the audience a rare chance of witnessing a complete different style, soft and mostly composed of the highest end of his vocal range spectrum, embodying versatility and leaving us all wondering if there is anything that the bassist don’t excel at.

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HYDRAE releases highly anticipated 3rd full album “theater of tragedy” as a kick-off for a world tour!

ALBUM TITLE: theater of tragedy RELEASE DATE: 06.11.2017 LANGUAGE: korean RELEASE TYPE: physical and digital album GENRE: alternative rock, soft-rock, ballad, punk-pop, alternative metal PRODUCED BY: rien LYRICS, COMPOSITION & ARRAGEMENT: rien

finally halting the waiting period for fans worldwide, HYDRAE started the second week of the month with the release of their highly anticipated third full album, theater of tragedy, compiling the early release of this year ‘vacant rain’, ‘adjoin’ and ‘separation anxiety’ with twelve other unprecedented tracks, the quartet delivers an impressively emotional musical act while transitioning swiftly within the sub-genres derived from alternative rock, asserting the versatility of their music. with prominent guitars, a daring rhythmical line, the poetic lyricism of their songs and the exploration of classical instruments, the band certainly pleased both the older fans who admired their work before the popularization of their music and the newcomers who might have discovered the band within the delivery of original sound tracks for popular dramas and movies. theater of tragedy also denotes the resume of HYDRAE’s presence in the stage, for the band will be embarking in yet another world tour, the opening concerts will take place at gocheok sky dome, in seoul, on the 17th and the 18th of june. other cities already confirmed to host their 2017 tour are tokyo, osaka, taipei, bangkok, new york, london and paris.

TRACKLIST

01. solace 02. 유령 (ghost) 03. greek tragedy 04. 염원 (desire&anxiety) 05. 진심을 너에게 (sincerely to you) 06. kaleidoscopic sky 07. oh it’s such a shame 08. 우리 안에. (rest in us ) 09. roses 10. adjoin 11. lost (in) you 12. 잠깐 스친 바람이야 (gone with the wind) 13. separation anxiety 14. i don’t wanna be in love 15. 비가 오는 날엔 (vacant rain) 16. outro: andromeda

firstly, i would like to express my gratitude towards all the muses and typists that have aided rien and i through the path of development in this year of activity, every interaction that currently composes this blog is not only much appreciated by me, but also represent the growth and development of this character whom i have taken a personal adoration for. 

it amuses me how easily this muse continues to ignite sparks in my creativity after so long when it was originally created as a stress reliever, and i’m immensely grateful for the opportunity (and the pleasure) to interact with every single one of you, it was because of you that my experience here has been far better than any of my expectations! 

i would also like to apologize for my rather faulty activity, nowadays and in the past, although my presence might waver with the tide, i will never be gone with the wind. thank you very much for all the patience and understanding that you’ve shown me throughout this year. and here is for the many more that are to come! 

HYDRAE teases 3rd full album with the release of a new single "vacant rain"!

SONG TITLE: 비가 오는 날엔 (vacant rain) RELEASE DATE: 05.11.2017 LANGUAGE: korean RELEASE TYPE: physical single. GENRE: alternative rock and soft-rock. PRODUCED BY: rien. LYRICS, COMPOSITION & ARRANGEMENT: rien. CREDITS: artwork. 

introducing their awaited third full album with the release of the second single of 2017 available, this time, in both physical and digital forms. hydrae provokes eager fans with a sentimental musical accordance of profound and enamored lyrics, and a compelling contrast of prominent electric guitars, accompanied by the heavily accentuated bass and percussion. vacant rain, as the title is officially translated, is presented as a connection link between both of the band preferred genres; alternative rock and ballad, exploring the romanticism that the soft-rock proportionate. the band is scheduled to release their third full album within the next month, promoting it through the summer in a world tour.

TRACKLIST. 01. 비가 오는 날엔 (vacant rain) 02. adjoin 03. 비가 오는 날엔 (geunless version) 

                             【 D E D I C A T E D   T O   @svvyn  】

                              tw: psychological and emotional abuse

                                                                     【 B A S I C S  】

                     【 B E H I N D  T H E  C U R T A I N S  - -   A  M E S S A G E  】

                                   【 D E D I C A T E D     T O    @recusanse​】

dear inspiration, this letter is not addressed to sid vicious, the one who introduced me to the relevance and the significance of bass and the rhythm to a song, nor is it directed to james dean, whose iconic image was transcending and reached me with encouraging words to pursue a dream i did not know i had until the first time the roughness of my fingertips meet the sharpened ivoried edges of my first script. this letter is not about david bowie, jimi hendrix, kurt cobain, john lennon or any other rockstar who has admittedly influenced myself and my band, in a personal or musical level, because although their geniuses is regarded in the highest level by my person and much admired, i feel like this is the right moment to address my very own musical hero, who was able to encourage me to write my first song even many years after his passing. 

it was in the every depth of a japanese record store that i’ve first became part of the web he sewed, unfortunately, years too late to be able to experience the adrenaline flowing through my bloodstream, the excitement it would generate with every loud jump of my then hopeful and lost heart in the midst of a live concert, like the one presented to my ears through the heavy headphones around my ear as i listened to the first song of an album entitled “psyence”. 

the song was called ‘erase’ and the lyrics were aggressively relatable, and perhaps, a bit too emotionally draining and empowering for a thirteen-year-old to fully understand, but it was enough to cause me comfort. it was then that i first experience the joys of a kind of sympathy and empathy that can only be found in the harmony of a voice and a melody – the one wherein your oxygen leaves the entirety of your lungs in the heaviest of the sighs, first because of surprise and then, astonishment of finally being understood, and your ribs become cages because your heart is encouraged to make itself present; wild and free, widely recognizing the comfort in the warmth of a stranger’s voice. 

                              【 i’m neither happy nor sad, there is just not a story to tell.                        who are you? where am i? tomorrow was yesterday, then who am i?                                  aren’t the sights pretty in the rush of vibrant memories?                         “you reap what you sow, but what a shame! you’re still so young.”】 

by the time the album reached its eight song, i proudly admit that i’ve felt salty drops grace the warmth of my skin for the first time in years, that moment would be always imprinted into both my heart and my memories, for it was solely the first time i’ve allowed myself to express much more than just raw and untamed rage. it’s ironically how it was in the corner of an unfamiliar place with the comfort provided by a stranger’s voice that i’ve felt like i finally belonged to a place. it was through his words; the bittersweet melancholy and the unwinding need of freedom that i felt more comforted, more in touch with my own self. i refer to that period as the first soul searching moment i have ever had and the enlightenment that led me to who i am today, it is with conviction that i asseverate today that i would have never been myself if i had not come in contact with his music then. because it was this very one bridge that encouraged me to pursue music as a goal and it still reminds me to this day of the reasons behind my choice of the path i follow: 

                                              【 please, songs, tell them my truth.                                                       and i will keep playing you.            wherever i goand even if i find myself somewhere lost and aloneif i sing you,                                        i will be able to walk on with ginger steps.                                                                                                              goodbye 】 

                                         【    D E D I C A T E D    T O     @ivnsng    】

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dear ianthina,

i reckon the concept of distance is sometimes overwhelming to a heart as immaculate and forthright as your own, and for that i sincerely apologize. your ribs are named cages to hold in the wildness of a beating heart, not the contracted knots of uncertainty and hesitation transcending from a bond that was supposed to offer you security, the comfort of a much larger hand in your dainty ones, guiding you promptly through the tightrope settled high in the sky by lady luck and all the other fortune deities and not entertain their whims with a game of russian roulette. 

it must be terrifying for you, who is in a constant need of guidance, to be in the waiting end of a shared bond with a soul as fleeting as my own, there is a lot in me that is foreign to the callowness of your being and i know i’ve always preached the same discourse, like a broken record that has been forgotten – detached from the reality of its surroundings and disconcerted from the notion of staying still for a minute too long; i kept on repeating about companionship and trust, the two-way streets that compose a friendship, but nothing is really an equivalent exchange, huh? 

this letter is a confession, an apology and a reminder – a frank heartfelt result of cognac and cigarettes in a night that was just as long as the distance between our frames and the charcoal of the ink seemed to decorate the ivory it tinted. dedicated solemnly to the astonishing friendship derived from an unconventional meeting, and the skein of affection and understanding that was sew in every brief meeting and won bill. 

once upon a time, i told you that i could be a monster, could be everything you wanted me to be, could be your very own knight in a bloody armor, because you needed a pillar to sustain the foundations of your very structure; you were desperate for the helping hand that would maintain you straight in your own feet, and i’ve held your hand in mine ever since. perhaps, if you are lucky enough and close your eyes and concentrate as if wishing upon a star, you can eventually come to feel the roughness of my palm surrounding your dainty one, because i’m still by your side even if only metaphorically, and i will still be supporting your every step while braving through the seven seas, as someone who live of words and for words, there is nothing more meaningful than offer you those. 

months have gone by, and your smile is already part of the list of those who i favor, the precious and cherished people who inhabit the depths of my heart. and i’m profusely grateful for the effort you presented me in maintaining this friendship, regardless of the insecurities an absence might cause, but i assure you that my heart has indeed grow fonder. there is a solace shared in the warmth of an embrace, and i would have never trade it for anything else in the entire world, because your friendship does mean the world to me. 

i apologize, yet again, for all the times you needed my presence and i was deem unable to perform the role of a protector and an adviser, no part in the small or the silver screen should ever dim the importance of being there for the people i adore. and hopefully, this will become something the two of us can keep vivid within our thoughts. 

love, 

                                        【    D E D I C A T E D    T O     @daviscre    】                                                       fancy one? try your luck in here.

dear david,

i’ve been told that sometimes, in life, one could find someone legitimately extraordinary – someone who can shift the entire course of another’s life for the better solemnly because of their comforting and warm aura, cowering away any darkness with the brightness of their smile, someone who is worth of becoming the receiving end of the rarest and sincerest of all smiles; because that exquisite and fascinating soul have ignited the previously faint embers of belief ( in oneself, in another, in the beauty of the world that surround them and in the possibility of kindness in a human being), because there is much more to a friendship than the physical or metaphorical presence of one by the other’s side and because such heartfelt bond should reverberate through the confines of their veins in unison. 

there are many more ways to become immortal than what poets would like to undisclosed to the public knowledge, and not all of them denotes teardrops tinting the pale of quivering cheekbones or the loud cacophony of a heartbreaking. i promise you, too, that you do not need to lose yourself in someone else or to alter the very core of your being to make yourself invulnerable. people like you hold a strength in the softness of their heart that could transcend even the most impenetrable fortress, because building walls around a heart doesn’t signify protection, but isolation, and not even the sun is alone in the dim of the universe. 

and i’m writing this, devoid of any possible doubts, to remind you that you are extraordinary. dave, you are my best friend, and i thoroughly believe that a bond can’t be accurately quantified – it might have been years, decades even, since the first time we shared a cigarette pack and yet, here we are. even after you going, and me, leaving, because none of us seem to properly know how to stay at the same place for more than just a few moon cycles and i don’t blame either of us. there is beauty in the unknow, there is greediness in the need to know more and to conquer the earth and the sky above, there is intensity in the lust to wonder, to leave the past behind and look forward to a new future.

however, i’d like to remind you that i will still be here when your bones are tired and you feel the need to rest your wings in a place to call home and that will offer you much more than just a shelter from the storm. you will always have my undivided support to find yourself something worth living for, because unlike myself, you are selfless enough to donate your entire heart to the hands of someone else (and if they don’t treat it like a treasure, i will personally burry them six feet under the sandy ground).

i personally don’t believe someone deserves more than one poem in their entire life, so instead, i wrote you a letter, to read and reread whenever you doubt your own potential, because you can only go as far as your legs will carry you, dave, so prompt yourself forward. i will aid you through any falls. 

love, 

 ❝  

                                   back in the back of a cadillac                                                  number one with a bullet                                                        i’m a power pack.                                             it’s been too long, i’m glad to be back.

                                                                                                             ❞          

                                             【    D E D I C A T E D    T O     @haikjoo    】

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dearest joohyun, 

i find comfort in knowing that even midst the countless trials and tribulations that has been placed on my path throughout the amount of years we’ve known each other, there is still someone in this world that i can offer my trust blindly without hesitation or concern for future regrets, regardless of the day or the time. because i’m aware of the fact that you will be there with me, and if the need arises, i could still search for your tiny, dainty hands to intertwine my fingers with and receive a tightening grip as a wordless encouragement. you are already a major part of my life, the proportioner of some of the most delightful and paramount moments, which i cherish with the entirety of my heart. 

thus, i’d like to utilize this chance to express my gratitude properly, for i’m certain that although well-intentioned, i’m not exactly the most vocal for such matters (quite the irony, huh? one might assume that someone as pretentious as myself would gloat about the finest things he has in life, however, in contradiction to popular belief, i prefer to keep my favorites caged away in between my ribs as no one else would ever be able to harm them in any way). i know you always have my well-being settled as a priority in your mind, even when you order me to exhaust myself whilst running an extra mile throughout our training sessions, or when i have to carry you in addition to the external iron based weights – now, i will admit that it doesn’t actually make that much of difference, because in all honesty, you hardly weight anything at all. the complains are solemnly reserved to witness your lips pout and your glare ablaze, it’s certainly entertaining. 

so thank you, for all the times you’ve found it in your heart the will to encourage me, cherish my company, rely on me, share your opinions and inner demons with me, for allowing me to protect you and comfort you in the times you felt as if the world was too heavy and too dark to allow your smile to shine a little light. thank you for the trust you’ve confided in me, for allowing me to thumb away your tears when the world you held so dearly close to your heart turned its back on you. 

always keep this within your thoughts; i will be here for you, regardless of where, when or how. i’m thoroughly contented to have you in my life, and i will stand beside you through whatever path you chose to follow towards your future, noona, and i won’t allow anyone to cause you any harm. 

love, 

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houdorien my girls keep just set the bar far too high for anyone else! watch them creeping into your heart with their dope latest release ㅎㅎㅎ i'm very proud of you all, keep the hard work to archive even better things! @koeminamg ( @yuggxm), @asalene ( @selvnah ), @ccreepri, @kira.d ( @93kira ), @poisivy 화이팅! 

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oll_mightii sCREAMS WHEN?? HOW???? i don't know if i'm more excited for creep's comeback or for the fact rien knows them. 

s_lovechu gdi that is my bias list up there and my bias ruiner posting-- i can die happy now.

neekoeomiaa718 no surprises there, koemi and rien already stated they know each other for a very long time and i think selene too! thank you for supporting creep ♥ 

00moon00 is he streaming the song??? is he really helping my babies to get an all kill? TT

go_Ou if i take a look at them, will you stop posting about girls oppa? TT 

_kpop_k i didn't know about them but i will take a look now!! 

key characteristics: scheming, self-serving, charismatic, cerebral 

you understand exactly how the world works, and you are unafraid to mold it into something else. more often than not, you are doing this to benefit only yourself, but occasionally you will grow close to one or two people. in this instance, you hope they share your belief system, but this is a rare occurrence. typically, however, the needs of other people are of no concern to you. despite this, you can be charming when you need to be, and put to the test you could easily gain followers. beware of people who might be able to see through your act, for if their moral code goes against yours they may work to bring you down. 

film recommendations: the third man, touch of evil