The album cover is highly misleading, because the Korean zither is hardly if ever heard on the album. The album is composed jazz with some Korean traditional folk elements, most often in a relaxed, most secure almost feminine way of composing. The most unique part is the cello improvisation on the traditional Korean 'arirang' melody, which interpreted in a couple ways. In the first track it turned into traditional jazz and cello improvisation melodic-wise and with jazz rhythm

There isn’t too much jazz you can find in Korea, so this might be one of the earliest examples to find. I just hoped it had something more typically Korean in it too, but it simply is jazz-styled. Mostly the bass/drums play a predictable jam theme on which the piano can improvise a bit, while the themes are led smoothly by sax or sax and trumpet. The first track smoothly goes from a moody Pharoah Sanders introduction and back towards such an improvisation. The second track ta

I have listened and reviewed before a lot of new folk, folk-rock and combinations of American and Korean folk from the 60s and 70s. I have already mentioned how Korean folk music gained popularity over the years, together with genres that were stimulated from the Japanese occupation times, like Trot, together with the safe genre of popular singing styles. While all the psychedelic elements that were first associated with the creative period of the 60s/70s, a period that was s