After having his hit track, "It's Fortunate," rise to being one of Korea's most legendary love songs, Lee Juk has returned with his 3rd solo album, "The Song Made By Trees." The small scale album consists of a total of four composers including Lee Juk himself, but he claims that he put a lot of 'power' behind it in an interview with MyDaily. "I included an orchestra, percussion, brass, and a chorus to include a variety of different sounds. My last album was a bit simple since all I did was calmly play the piano while singing. I wanted to try different things with this album. Even though the production costs were a bit more expensive, I was able to include a lot more variety with so many combination's of different instruments." It's been 15 years since his debut. With many hit tracks under his belt and having already been acknowledged as a successful musician, Lee Juk expressed some of his concerns over the changes the Korean music industry has gone through. "The production of physical albums has died and has been instead replaced by digital music. Our generation has no place in a digital music market. It's not like we're idol singers, where even if the market is dead, our music will sell well digitally. There's also no point in creating 10 or so songs at once to release in one album anymore. It has become impossible for people that want to create an album full of ideas that are as big as the world to compete, let alone release their album, anymore. What will become of people like me, then? I think this is a concern that any musician of my generation has." Like a true musician, his concerns for the future of Korea's music industry seems to ring the thoughts of many others as well. However, he isn't putting down idols nor their talents. He instead believes that the problem isn't the idols, but the environment that favors the idols. "I honestly like SNSD / Girls' Generation. Idols these days are all highly skilled in dancing, singing, and also come out with a lot of good songs. The idols aren't the problem, the music and environment are. There needs to be more spotlight put on those outside of the idol world. Of course, from the viewer's perspective, it's more interesting to see a pack of people come out to dance and sing, but in order to advance and expand the genres of music, more attention needs to be put on others as well." Lee Juk will be holding a country-wide tour in promotion of his new album and in hopes of meeting a diversity of music fans. His "Lee Juk 2010 Tour - With You" will begin in Seoul on November 13th. "Performing is the most fun for me. Since I have a new album out now, there's a lot more songs to perform and I'm already excited in planning how to sing them. I hope a lot of people will listen." Source + Photos: MyDaily