Korean contemporary music pioneer Yajac returns with his latest single, โHer Light, Unseen,โ released on August 29, 2025, as the campaign song for The Exhibition UNSEEN in New York, the first exhibition to center the resilience and struggles of North Korean women through art, archives, and film. Known since his groundbreaking 1992 debut Mom in Heaven as a genre-bender, rippling with jazz, classical, and pop, Yajac here gets political and passionate in his instrumental, with a vow in sound to amplify voices too long overlooked.
Produced with Grammy and Emmy winners Clark Germain and Matthew Kajcienski, the track combines technical brilliance with emotional weight and unfolds like a meditation on memory, loss, and solidarity.
From its opening bars, โHer Light, Unseenโ draws you into a low, organic hum that broods in deep registers, circling with a subtle tension. These lower textures buzz and churn like a burden carried quietly, while above them a brighter layer begins to sparkle, glinting faintly. The duality of heaviness and shimmer feels intentional, embodying unseen suffering alongside resilient hope.
As the track progresses, baroque strings enter with an aching purity, swelling and writhing in the background, with gravity and grace. Musical suspensions create a constant ebb and flow, with moments of held breath followed by release, mirroring the cycles of silence and emergence in the lives of the women the song honors. Gradually, the melodies branch outward like vines searching for air, until the entire soundscape begins to soar.
By the closing moments, the piece lifts into warmth, with the strings writhing passionately underneath while the sparkling music persists beneath like a motif, grounding the music even as the music ascends, like still water rippling in the low ends while all else takes flight.
โHer Light, Unseenโ becomes an allegory of the striving and persistent pledge, available on Spotify for us to witness what once was.
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Review by: Naomi Joan