Jambinai is the best discovery of new music from Korea so far, thanks to Michael Fuhr’s book and recommendation. This first full album, on “Times of Extinction”, starts powerfully with a heavy, slowly repetitive rocking drive, of acoustic/electric guitar/drums in contrast with the traditional Korean violin sound improvising on top of it, with thoughtful arranged effects of almost cinematic contrasts. This mode continues with variations of the same heavy effect. In the second

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Jin Hi Kim introduced the komungo, an ancient Korean bass zither originating from the 4th century with silk strings (plucked with a bamboo stick) to a wider public. Jin Hi Kim first studied in South Korea as one of the few accepted students at the national high school for Korean traditional music where she studied court and folk styles of singing, drumming, and bamboo flutes (both vertical and transverse), and selected the komungo as her major instrument. Then she studied fu

It is not so, that for all items where all the effort has been done to carefully remaster, restore and reissue them, even though the 70s were much more promising musically and had a more interesting sound compared to later years (-although ’77 is already a date where a lot has been changed, not to the benefit of creative and interesting expressions-), that all items that are reissued are really so interesting, even within the pop/rock area. In the case of the Jang Kye Hyun it