Season 5, Episode 6: Transnational Gaze – Mai Young Øvilsen

MAI YOUNG ØVILSEN, 39, is a Korean Danish composer and front woman for her band Meejah, whose alt-shoegaze sounds are guided by her haunting voice and lyrics about Korean adoption, transnational identity and homeland. Øvilsen also shines a light on an aspect of searching for biological parents for adoptees that is often left out of common narratives.

Audio available Dec. 29, 2021 at 7 am ET.

About Meejah – Queen of Spring

Queen of Spring is written over the 8 trigrams in Korean philosophy and taoism:
Fire ☲ Thunder ☳ Mountain ☶ Lake ☱ Water ☵ Earth ☷ Heaven ☰ Wind ☴ A Cycle of Change. The Unity of All Opposites. 
Meejah – “Queen of Spring” is recorded in BlipBlip Studio in Roskilde and mastered in Stockholm by Magnus Lindberg

Meejah is Daniel Nayberg, Andreas Isbrandt Løvenskjold and Mai Young Øvlisen

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