Nu Base Records / Mirrorball Numori ‎: Guna Guna -digipack- (2016)****' ‎– MBMC1427- = 누모리 (nuMori) 1집 - 구나구나 (GunaGuna) 미러볼뮤직 | 2016년 07월 21일 * 1. 왕거미 / King spider 2:49 * 2. 구나구나 / You're right 4:36 * 3. 니나노 / Nino 6:00 * 4.부정재즈 / Opposite jazz 6:16 * 5. 신의 손바닥 / The palm of God 6:33 6. 헤이오 / Heo Oh 3:01 7.어이없이 떠난 세월 / Years passed by without a word 3:13 * 8. 가시오 / Go ! 4:45 * 9.울음 / 울음 / Crying & Weeping 3:12 * 10. 일렉트릭 산조 / Electric Sanjo 9:18 11. 보고싶소 / I want to see it

Tzadik Henry Kaiser, Charles K.Noyes, Sang-Won Park : Invite The Spirit (SKO,1983,re.2007)**° I think I need to listen a few more times to this release to get a full grip on it. It surely is grounded in a mixture of free music improvisation and the sensibility of the playing on the Korean zither in Korean mode. At first the group is very careful tuning in into one another with open space. There are tried a few deliberate break-throughs at first with somewhat disturbing off-

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

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