K-Content News
- October 07, 2020
Courage and Hope to All Beings
Who Are Deficient Band “from all to human”
We met the band’s members who deliver the message of courage and hope, that things can get better for all beings who are deficient.
Q. Who are the members of the band?
A. Our band consists of five members: leader and keyboard Mun Seong-hwan, drum Mun Seong-ho, guitar Park Jae-u, bass guitar Nam U-seok, and vocalist Blessing.
Q. How was “from all to human” created?
A. The leader (Mun Seong-hwan) gathered members one by one. When the band was formed, all our members were in a state of being deficient both musically and circumstantially. So it appears that our band was launched with the thought of resolving this deficiency musically. It was the intent of revealing the feelings that others rarely show. We played instruments only at first but began our album work shortly after scouting Blessing with the thought that it would be good if we have a vocalist.
Q. What is meant by from all to human?
A. From all to human means “from all beings to humans.” Internally, it contains the meaning of “being less evolved and deficient.” It was named as such because of our intention that we were still deficient musically and unfinished but wanted to evolve further. We thought we were nothing but mere dust in the universe; therefore, we named our team from all to human and opted for monkey as our logo.
Q. What was your deficiency?
A. All musicians want to be loved by the public and to be in the spotlight. They want many people to listen to their works. So do we. There was a deficiency of not being loved merely because we were the so-called underground musicians. There was another deficiency of not being recognized by our colleagues.
Q. What sort of music are you playing?
A. We unravel the emotions we feel in everyday life and after watching a movie, based on R&B soul music. We reinterpret our mainstream black music through band sound, and we don’t follow any specific genre or style.
Q. Your album cover is impressive, isn’t it?
A. The album cover is definitely the part shown to those who listen to our music first of all. You’re likely to see the cover first before listening to the music. So we pay attention a lot. We explain the situation and symbols after letting illustrator “Yuja” hear our music, and then the guy expresses what comes to mind via drawings. He is trying to contain the feelings of American cartoons.
Q. You made it to the top 5 in 2019 Muse On last year. What was the back story and impression behind your presence in Muse On?
A. It’s likely that we blindly applied just to be recognized. Nonetheless, we are still grateful for obtaining unexpected good results. After participation, we wondered “what satisfied audiences” and resolved to continue to work hard as we had done. While we have released four EP albums so far, we haven’t performed much. When we were called to be among the top five, we felt that we did it all together without exception without us realizing it. That’s because we considered Muse On to be a program supporting musicians rather than a competition.
Q. Why is from all to human loved?
A. We focus on our feelings to express our honest emotions on the stage. Audiences seem to sympathize with that. Whenever we stand on the stage, we say to each other that it’s okay if we do the same as always. We don’t prepare any special showmanship even if we stand on the final stage. It’s hard to show nice things during the short four minutes, but it’s rather easy to deliver what we want to say accurately. So audiences may think highly of our efforts to deliver our message.
Q. What do you find most troubling while playing your music?
A. First of all, it’s not easy these days to release albums or set the performance schedule due to COVID-19. As offline performances decline, we believe that online contents will become the main themes of the content industry. Policies related to culture and arts will change from offline-centric to online-centric. Contactless methods will increase further in the future, but it will be rather necessary to support face-to-face cultures like competitions or contests. Before the COVID-19 situation, we had agonized the most over how to deliver our music like “when and how we display our music after completing it and what promotions are necessary.”
Q. Are there any musicians you want to work with?
A. Jay Park. He seems to know African-American music culture too well, and he’s extraordinarily good at expression beyond dancing and singing well. Among foreign artists, we’d like to work with R&B musicians such as Bilal or D’Angelo.
Q. What is the future dream and plan of from all to human?
A. Having released four EP albums so far, we have wanted to deliver a hopeful message as well as courage. It’s the message that “you can do it as well” because we also do it. First, we received energy from deficiency such as inferiority or guilty conscience, but it was funny how we gained such energy after winning the prize last year. That’s because we were recognized. So it seems to be time to change energy. We are planning to try something different. Our dream is to continue to give people courage through music and perform and play music while being in communion with many people without concerns about COVID-19.
Q. What is a good content?
A. It’s content that can quench one’s thirst. Good contents are those playing good music for those wishing to listen to good music and informing those wishing to cook delicious dishes on how to cook easily. We believe that contents with sincerity rather than sensational things are good contents.
