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[MyDaily = Reporter Seung-gil Lee] Kakao Entertainment\u2019s music platform Melon has named singer-songwriter DeVita its May Artist of the Month for TrackZero, the platform\u2019s indie-music initiative, and published an in-depth interview to mark the release of her first full-length album, The Tree Is Burning.<\/p>\n

TrackZero is Melon\u2019s program for spotlighting indie music, introducing hidden gems and emerging artists to listeners through playlists curated by an expert panel. This month the project focuses on DeVita, a singer-songwriter who has carved out a distinctive space in Korea\u2019s indie scene by blending R&B, pop and baroque elements.<\/p>\n

DeVita says the March release \u201ctransforms a deeply personal narrative into music.\u201d She translated episodes of depersonalization, panic disorder and a near-death experience into songs that trace a journey from darkness to light. \u201cI didn\u2019t set out with a plan to make this album,\u201d she said. \u201cI followed a feeling I was living through, and the music emerged. The process of living that feeling became the album.\u201d<\/p>\n

The record unfolds in three stages\u2014sin, an encounter with God, and enlightenment. The opening track, \u201cJudas Reborn,\u201d uses a blazing flame to evoke divine wrath; the closing track, \u201cHallelujah,\u201d answers with rain that signifies divine mercy. The sixth track, \u201cChanges,\u201d carries what DeVita describes as a message from God and marks the album\u2019s turn from confusion to revelation. The cover, an homage to Ilya Repin\u2019s 1885 painting Judas, depicts DeVita trembling before God and then realizing God\u2019s love, breaking into a smile.<\/p>\n

TrackZero presents DeVita as \u201can artist who transforms intensely personal narratives into the universal language of myth and classical forms, inviting listeners to experience them as their own,\u201d and spotlights this album for that reason.<\/p>\n

In the Melon Magazine interview, DeVita described her musical approach in detail. She said she didn\u2019t consciously borrow church modes; rather, she introduced Baroque touches within familiar tonal frameworks to balance the familiar with the new. She finds fascination in how the same chord can change color depending on piano voicing, and\u2014working with producers Taerim and Sogong\u2014she translated those classical techniques into modern production.<\/p>\n

Religious symbolism and a carefully constructed visual world run throughout the album: the tricycle in \u201cTricycle\u201d stands in for the Trinity, and the apple tree in \u201cSailing\u201d invokes the concept of felix culpa, the \u201cfortunate fall.\u201d DeVita said she aimed to build a worldview that is accessible to listeners without religious affiliation as well as to those of different faiths. Explaining her use of mythic figures such as Icarus and Judas, she added, \u201cWhen you can\u2019t understand yourself, you express yourself through figures from myth and fairy tale.\u201d<\/p>\n

TrackZero also released a curator-selected playlist of DeVita\u2019s recommended tracks. It includes selections from The Tree Is Burning alongside other songs that illuminate the range of her musical world.<\/p>\n

Melon launched TrackZero in April 2022 and has featured it on the mobile app\u2019s main screen on Thursdays ever since. Each month the program names an Artist of the Month and selects recommended new songs. The Artist of the Month is chosen from artists who have released music domestically, and the recommended tracks are selected from songs released within the past three to four months.<\/p>\n

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