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LONDON’S FESTIVAL OF KOREAN MUSIC

30 OCTOBER — 16 NOVEMBER 2020

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K-MUSIC 2020 FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER – MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER LIVE AND DIGITAL HYBRID FESTIVAL

London’s Festival of Korean Music returns for two live shows and a whole host of incredible broadcasts for its first hybrid gig and digital offering of the best in Korean music.

International stars ADG7 come to Kings Place to open the K-Music Festival on Friday 30 October - with the explosions of a pop rock cabaret and the grooves of funk, the group draw on the sacred shamanic and secular ritual music and folk song of the Hwanghaedo region in western North Korea, their music aims to express the true meaning of liberation and the Korean people’s hope for reunification.

One of Korea’s leading experimental drummers SooJin Suh performs a unique collaboration with fellow ECM artist Kit Downes to close the Festival on Monday 16 November at PizzaExpress Live.

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Between the live shows, you can enjoy free streams from Korean music greats including Jambinai, Park Jiha, Black String, Jaram Lee, Kyungso Park, Coreyah, and many more. A fantastic programme of online concerts and talks will be presented in the following five categories: K-Music Greats, New Talent, Encounters, Specials and Critics’ Choice.

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A festival that is ‘original, powerful and thrilling like nothing you have ever heard before’ ««««« Evening Standard

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K-MUSIC LONDON LIVE Opening the festival will be the wild and thrilling sounds of ADG7, whose pop rock cabaret impresses wherever they perform. In partnership with the EFG London Jazz Festival, ECM artists SooJin Suh and Kit Downes will join together to bring this year’s K-Music to a close.

K-MUSIC GREATS This category includes some of the biggest names in Korean music, each of whom have performed at previous K-Music festivals.

K-MUSIC NEW TALENT A chance to hear fresh sounds from Korea’s up and coming groups who are making waves in the East, we’re proud to present them in London’s Festival of Korean Music.

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K-MUSIC ENCOUNTERS In our new series for this year, get behind the music with K-Music Encounters where compelling artists discuss their work before presenting some unique collaborations and one-off pieces.

K-MUSIC SPECIALS Enjoy a full concert experience from home with our feature length broadcasts. This year, K-Music Festival has worked with Korea’s leading culture institutions including The National Theatre of Korea to provide some outstanding online performances.

K-MUSIC CRITICS’ CHOICE Working with Lopa Kothari, Nikki Bedi and Max Reinhardt, we have specially selected exciting Korean bands who are just starting to find new audiences across the world.

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LIVE SHOWS

30 OCTOBER 19:30 ADG7 KINGS PLACE

16 NOVEMBER 20:00 SOOJIN SUH + KIT DOWNES PIZZAEXPRESS LIVE (HOLBORN)

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DIGITAL SHOWS 31 OCTOBER 17:00 JAMBINAI 2 NOVEMBER 19:00 DONGYANG GOZUPA AND DAL:UM 3 NOVEMBER 19:00 YOON JEONG HEO FROM BLACK STRING + VINCENT PEIRANI 4 NOVEMBER 19:00 KYUNGSO PARK + SOONA PARK 4 NOVEMBER 19:35 JAE IL JUNG + SOONA PARK 5 NOVEMBER 19:00 JARAM LEE 6 NOVEMBER 19:00 HEY STRING 7 NOVEMBER 17:00 BLACK STRING 9 NOVEMBER 19:00 GRAY BY SILVER AND GONIA 10 NOVEMBER 19:00 COREYAH 11 NOVEMBER 19:00 SINNOI 12 NOVEMBER 19:00 LEENALCHI 13 NOVEMBER 19:00 FOUR SOLOISTS IN A DIFFERENT DIMENSION 14 NOVEMBER 17:00 HEEMOON LEE + PRELUDE + NOMNOM 

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Successfully staging London shows featuring outstanding international artists means K-Music is not only one of the only Festivals to be running in London this year, but leads K-Music in to its first live and digital hybrid offering. Opening the festival will be the uplifting, colourful and charming ADG7, whose pop rock cabaret is impressive wherever they perform. In partnership with the EFG London Jazz Festival, ECM artists Soojin Suh & Kit Downes will join together to bring this year’s K-Music to a close.

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ADG7 OPENING SHOW

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FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 19:30 KINGS PLACE

‘A most astonishing show musically and immensely entertaining.

WOW!!!’

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ADG7 (Ak Dan Gwang Chil) made their world debut in 2019 at Womex and GlobalFEST to much press acclaim. With the explosions of a pop rock cabaret and the grooves of funk, the group draw on the sacred shamanic and secular ritual music and folk song of the Hwanghaedo region in western North Korea.

Band members include Won Meon Dong Maru on gayageum (zither); Grace Park on ajaeng (zither); Kim Yak Dae on daeguem (bamboo

flute); Lee Man Wol on piri (bamboo oboe) and saenghwang (free reed mouth organ); Chun Gung Dal and Sunwoo Bara on percussion; and Hong Ok, Wol Seon and Meong Wol on vocals.

ADG7 will open K-Music 2020 with tracks from their debut album Ak Dan Gwang Chil, and from their second album Such is Life, which was released in July of this year.

‘Choreographed singers, candy-coloured costumes and bouncy, upbeat, often swinging songs that link the concision of folk tunes to the catchy repetition of pop, with cymbals for drive and flute and zither lines for instrumental hooks’ New York Times

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SOOJIN SUH + KIT DOWNES CLOSING SHOW

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This unique collaboration from two ECM artists is presented in partnership with the 2020 EFG London Jazz Festival.

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SooJin Suh is one of Korea’s leading experimental drummers, she began studying music from the age of 5 and is a graduate of the City College of New York. Suh has released four records (The Moon in Your Hand, Strange Liberation, Colorist, and Embrace) as well as being a member of the celebrated group and K-Music 2018 performers, Near East Quartet, whose eponymous album came out on ECM in the same year.

‘SooJin Suh launches a barrage from behind the kit’ Downbeat

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BBC Jazz Award-winning, Mercury Music Prize-nominated pianist/composer Kit Downes is also an ECM artist, playing solo as well as with his own bands (ENEMY, Troyka, Elt and Vyamanikal).

‘Enticingly strange and wonderful sounds; a lightning musical intelligence’ Telegraph on Kit Downes ‘Downes’ uncanny ability to make difficult music sound natural’ «««« The Guardian

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K-MUSIC GREATS

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This category includes some of the biggest names in Korean music, each of whom have performed at previous K-Music festivals. This year they include Songlines Award Winners Black String and Jambinai and the sensational singer Heemoon Lee alongside Prelude and NomNom.

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JAMBINAI SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER 17:00 GMT

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‘Epic folk-rock that proves there’s more to Korea than K-Pop’ ««««« Songlines

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Jambinai present traditional Korean music in a new and innovative way, with their ground-breaking post-rock sound that combines folk, metal, jazz and ambient electronic elements in a mix of traditional Korean and modern instruments. With their huge following they have wowed stages at major rock festivals, including Glastonbury and Robert Smith’s Meltdown.

Their third Bella Union record Onda was released in 2019 and performed at K-Music that year. This K-Music Greats show will feature 20-minutes of highlights from a 2020 concert where they played their most popular songs including, Time of Extinction and Sun. Tears. Red.

‘Korea’s Jambinai impressed with their genre-blurring sound, applying traditional folk instruments to eruptive instrumental drone-rock reminiscent of Sonic Youth’ «««« The Times ‘Drawing on post–rock and metal, they were soon astonishing audiences at festivals around the world as leaders of the new wave in Korean music’ «««« Evening Standard

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BLACK STRING SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 17:00 GMT

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‘Black String play a riveting, hauntingly epic, sold-out show’ New York Music Daily

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ACT artists and masters of traditional Korean music and jazz Black String burst on to the London scene in 2011, their rise to the top saw them close K-Music 2019 to great acclaim in a show that was also performed within the EFG London Jazz Festival.

Black String’s performance, the second episode in this K-Music Greats series, will include their celebrated works Sureña, Exhale-Puri from their second album, Karma, which was showcased at their closing performance of K-Music 2019.

This is an edited version of a concert produced by the Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation in 2020.

Their storming international debut Mask Dance (ACT) earned them a 2018 Songlines Music Award, their award ceremony performance being a true representation of ‘borderless contemporary Korean music’.

‘There are tricky time signatures, a nod of thanks to Ornette Coleman’s Lonely Woman for a guitar solo, and constant tonal shifts from the geomungo itself.

Elegant and accomplished’ «««« Guardian

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HEEMOON LEE + PRELUDE + NOMNOM SATURDAY 7 NOVEMBER 17:00 GMT

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‘The group sings a regional folk style called minyo and the gender bending look has to do with shamans not glamour… The understated music, the small dramatic gestures and the costumes all combine for one of my most memorable concerts of all time’ NPR

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Seven Korean men’s visually stunning show is led by extraordinary singer Heemoon Lee, includes Joseon Idol NomNom, and features the jazz group Prelude, who originally came together at the Berklee School of Music. The eagle-eyed among you will have recognised Heemoon Lee from many projects, including sold-out shows with SsingSsing at K-Music 2018 that had audiences on their feet, singing, and dancing.

Heemoon Lee and Prelude performed at the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room in 2017 with Korean Men taking a hilarious look at male/ female roles of today, all the while blending Korean folk music and jazz. The last episode of our K-Music Greats series will be the highlights of their 2020 performance produced by the Seoul Namsan Gukakdang, expect to see some popular songs from their 2017 performance including Nanbong-ga.

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A chance to hear fresh sounds from Korea’s up and coming groups, making waves in the East, we’re proud to present them on London’s Festival of Korean Music.

We’ve chosen four groups from the Journey to Korean Music programme, produced by PAMS, to showcase these musicians as they push boundaries with their innovative new music.

This year’s K-Music New Talent are Dongyang Gozupa, Dal:um, Gray by Silver, and Gonia.

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DONGYANG GOZUPA AND DAL:UM MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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‘You won’t believe that they are only three on stage, with the bass and percussion blending and creating an experience that is intense, powerful, beautiful and colourful’ WOMEX about Dongyang Gozupa

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DAL:UM

In a hard-hitting combination of progressive, post-rock and the psychedelic possibilities of the yanggeum (Korean metal-stringed zither), the name Dongyang Gozupa translates as ‘eastern high frequency’, providing a clue to their music – a trail-blazing, percussion-driven sound with the yanggeum at its centre. For fans of Jambinai, the trio consists of bassist Minhui Ham, yanggeum player Eunhwa Yun, and award-winning percussionist Dohyuk Jang, who performed at K-Music 2016 with one of Korea’s biggest rock bands Danpyunsun & The Sailors.

Fresh talent from Su-yean Ha on gayageum (silk stringed zither) and Hye-young Hwang on geomungo (fretted silk stringed zither), challenging these traditional instruments in a free and modern way to produce a truly unique sound. Despite their apparent similarity, the gayageum and geomungo are surprisingly different from each other in structure, playing techniques and tone. Dal:um show how innovative interpretations create a harmony between the strong energy and beautiful voices of the two instruments - sometimes clean and minimal yet other times powerful and striking

Dongyang Gozupa’s recent successes include being featured at PAMS (Performing Arts Market in Seoul), Seoul Music Week and WOMEX.

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GRAY BY SILVER AND GONIA MONDAY 9 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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‘There are some distinctive features in his piano playing, such as a slow but powerful touch… allowing listeners to have room to engage their imagination… Hanbin Lee playing has a wide range of spectrum and diversity. This album is totally calm but also suspenseful.’

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Expressive pianist and composer Hanbin Lee leads this jazz group in expertly performed, emotional pieces of voice, daegeum (large bamboo flute), percussion, and piano - bringing together classical, jazz, and progressive with Korean and Middle-East rhythms both in ethereal waves and staccato punches.

Jazz band Gonia are experts in improvisation, creating the new music style K-jazz, based on traditional Korean rhythms on the janggu (hourglass-shaped, double headed drum) with smooth and progressive guitar and bass licks with sophisticated melodies. The composition of the free rhythms of the janggu and the endless flow of improvisation of bass guitars grants listeners with endless surprises.

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K-MUSIC ENCOUNTERS

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In our new series for this year, get behind the music with K-Music Encounters – where compelling artists discuss their work before presenting some unique collaborations and one-off pieces, this special format allows the artists to uncover the motivations and philosophies behind their musical creations whilst revealing just a little bit about them too.

In K-Music Encounters you will meet Yoon Jeong Heo & Vincent Peirani, Kyungso Park & Soona Park, Jae Il Jung, the music director of the Oscar winning film Parasite, with Soona Park, and the renowned Jaram Lee.

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YOON JEONG HEO + VINCENT PEIRANI

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TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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In the first episode of K-Music Encounters, geomungo master Heo will perform and talk about her musical story. The performance will be held in collaboration with prominent French jazz accordionist, Vincent Peirani. This is a very rare opportunity to enjoy a fantastic concert from these two masters, one not to miss.

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YOON JEONG HEO

VINCENT PEIRANI

Not just the leader of award-winning Korean music and jazz group, Black String, Yoon Jeong Heo is a leading and respected figure of the Korean music scene, bringing together East meets West compositions with her geomungo (zither-like stringed instrument with bridges and frets) offering a fresh, new sound to audiences by presenting ancient tradition within a modern setting.

Like all popular music, jazz is associated with strong personalities. International recognition of accordionist Vincent Peirani rests on that essential, fundamental quality. His musical charisma, his distinctive creative skills, his unique approach to his art strike the listener immediately.

Heo has performed numerous performances in Korea, Germany, France, UK, USA and many other countries. She broadens her musical spectrum by collaborating with prominent artists like Stephan Mikus, Idan Rachel, Vincent Peirani and many more.

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Peirani has the ability to turn everything he touches into gold: in jazz, of course, but also in chanson (Sanseverino, Les Yeux Noirs), film music (composer for Mathieu Almaric’s Barbara in 2017), and so on.

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KYUNGSO PARK + SOONA PARK WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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The second guest in the K-Music Encounters series is Kyungso Park, a gayageum master and K-Music favourite. Park has been playing and composing on the gayageum for the last 16 years, in this broadcast she will tell her musical story before performing a small concert with Soona Park, a gayageum performer who has trained in both South and North Korea.

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SOONA PARK

Kyungso Park is a composer, player and improviser of the gayageum, a traditional Korean stringed instrument that sounds like a cross between a harp, an oud and a theremin.

She freely breaks down the borders between traditional and contemporary music and at K-Music 2016 she premiered an exquisite collaboration with British saxophonist, Andy Sheppard – ‘an engrossing improvisational encounter’ (The Guardian). She also participated in K-Music 2018 and again in 2019 with her band, SB Circle.

Gayageum performer Soona Park’s cultural background informs her colourful musical identity. Her travels and studies mean her music is established in Japan, North and South Korea. The strange yet overwhelming technique that stands out in her performance makes us measure the musical territory she has constantly expanded, touching the hearts of listeners, and is drawing attention for its outstanding performance.

‘She treated a rapt crowd to a wide swath of music, both cutting-edge original compositions and traditional numbers. As serious and meticulous a composer and player as she is, she’s also a very funny, engaging performer’ New York Daily

‘The familiar but unfamiliar sound stimulates the curiosity of the audience. Above all, her performance is based on a fast and dynamic sound, and is characterised by flamboyant techniques such as piano playing’ Korea Art TV

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The K-Music Encounters Special features the multi-instrumentalist and composer Jae Il Jung, the music director of such international hits as Parasite (2019) and Okja (2017). His career began in his teens and he has since become a prolific name in the industry due to his wide-ranging talents.

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Jung is joined by gayageum performer Soona Park performing Those Who Crossed the River which was created from the songs: Aprokgang (written by Jo Gi-cheon and composed by Kim Ok-sung), a religious song created in 1949, and Sahyangga (Farewell to My Home), written around 1910.

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JARAM LEE THURSDAY 5 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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The final show in the K-Music Encounters series features leading pansori singer, Jaram Lee, where she will discuss and perform The Old Man and The Sea, based on Ernest Hemingway’s masterpiece and recreated in pansori form. Lee goes back to the basics of pansori, and only with traditional Pansori linguistics and simple percussion, she brings the story to life and fills the whole stage with its presence.

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As a singer of pansori, leading light Jaram Lee has captivated audiences across the globe. She has also written and composed works herself and released the modern pansori’s Sacheon-ga and Ukchuk-ga, based on work by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Lee once again showed her potential as a creator and performer with the pansori work, Stranger’s Song based on the short story by Gabriel

García Márquez. She also won the Best Actress award at the 2014 Korea Musical Awards for Musical Seopyenje.

Her talents don’t stop there as her work includes lead vocals for the Amado Lee Jaram Band, radio DJ presenter, gayageum player, guitarist, composer, writer, and music director.

‘The artist Jaram Lee is well known in Korea where she protects the tradition of pansori by revisiting it with her weapons: voice and expression that she modulates at will to the precise rhythm of the traditional drum’ Télérama

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K-MUSIC SPECIALS

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Enjoy a full concert experience from home with our feature length broadcasts. In this series, we broadcast a new performance from gayageum trio Hey String, co-produced with the Seoul Nasam Gugakdang, as well as an outstanding collaboration between Woojae Park, Park Jiha, Kyungso Park and Soona Park from the Yeowoorak Festival produced by the National Theatre of Korea.

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HEY STRING FRIDAY 6 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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To great acclaim, Hey String performed alongside Kyungso Park’s SB Circle at K-Music last year. Now they return with a full-length performance.

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Gayageum trio Hey String push beyond the limitations of traditional performance in a full force of interplaying melodies and rhythms to create enthralling soundscapes. With their three Korean zither-like 12 stringed instruments, they show a deep understanding of traditional Korean music, but don’t let it box them in as they mix with electronics and explore unique compositions. The band includes Jihyo Kim (gayageum, glass Harp, kalimba), Jihyun Park (gayageum, glockenspiel, vocals) and Jihyun Oh (gayageum, glockenspiel, percussion).

This concert is co-produced by the K-Music Festival and the Seoul Namsan Gukakdang, the organisers of the competition programme ‘Young Korean Music Audition Danjang’ that originally discovered Hey String.

‘Hey String are part of a revolution among Korean traditional players that would have seemed highly unlikely even a decade ago. Players of those instruments used to stay within their own refined world of museum culture, whereas now musicians like Jihyun Park take it as given that there are no limits to what they can play’ The Wire

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FOUR SOLOISTS IN A DIFFERENT DIMENSION FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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Four incredible artists come together in a stunning performance that displays the true roots of Korean music. Joining previous K-Music performers Woojae Park and Park Jiha are the gayageum performers Kyungso Park and Soona Park.

Rarely seen on stage together, this exciting collaboration was performed and recorded at the 2020 Yeowoorak Festival.

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WOOJAE PARK

PARK JIHA

Woojae Park continues to expand the performance boundaries of the geomungo (six-stringed Korean zither instrument), he previously performed at the 2017 K-Music Festival having also worked with artists including Soumik Datta, and the choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for Fractus V, which played at Sadler’s Wells and toured worldwide.

Multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha is beloved, not only in Korea but worldwide. She has seen success in the UK, initially in 2015 with her work with SU:M as well as with her Glitterbeat releases Communion and Philos which were performed at the 2017 and 2019 K-Music Festivals.

‘Using no more than three instruments, Jiha’s music expresses as much emotion as words could convey’ «««« Guardian Global Album of the Month

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K-MUSIC CRITICS’ CHOICE

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Working with Lopa Kothari, Nikki Bedi Reinhardt, we have specially selected Korean bands who are starting to find across the world. This year’s Choices Coreyah, Sinnoi and Leenalchi.

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COREYAH TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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‘The thing I love about them is the way they subtly blend traditional instruments and folk sensibilities with an indie-pop outlook… add to that, pretty good musicianship and style and you’ve got a winner on your hands.’

Lopa Kothari (BBC Radio 3 Presenter)

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Coreyah are a psychedelic Korean folk music group, integrating traditional Korean instruments, vocals, guitar, and percussion.

They are pioneering a new style of Korean music that blends genres of contemporary ethnic and popular sounds while still maintaining the distinctive characteristics of traditional Korean instruments.

They have performed in more than 36 cities in 27 countries. 2020 marks their 10th anniversary, a year in which they continued to spread their passion for Korean culture,

as well as becoming only the 2nd Korean act after SsingSsing to perform NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert.

The band is packed with gifted musicians Dong Kun Kim (daegeum, sogeum, tungso), Boyoung Ham (vocals), Cho Rong Kim (percussion), Kyungyi (percussion), Sunjin Na (geomungo), and Jaehyeon Ko (guitar).

The first show in the K-Music Critics’ Choice section celebrates the 10th anniversary of their debut.

‘An uninhibited vision of Korean traditional music with some psychedelic rock, Balkan gypsy, even sounds from South America and Africa’ NPR

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SINNOI WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER

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‘Sinnoi~pansori are a wonderful surprise. Just watch this unique trio become a live and viral cult presence across the globe over the next decade. They flawlessly bring together minimalism, shamanic music, jazz, electronic sound art and a sprinkling of pansori.’

Max Reinhardt (Soho Radio, BBC Radio 3, BBC World Service Presenter)

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LISTEN TO THEIR INTERVIEW

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A unique presence on the jazz scene, Sinnoi has a minimalist composition with rich, deep musical interplay of improvised and delicate exchanges. Sinnoi was formed by Bora Kim, a master of Gyeonggi folk songs and Korean classical court music, and Lee Wonsool, double bass player. Combined with the skills of electronic ambient sound artist Haihm, who performed at Café OTO last year with the visual artist Bongsu Park, Sinnoi reach new styles of music that can transcend genres and ages. Pansori, jazz, and modern electronic forces combine to create a truly outstanding and original sound.

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The performance that Sinnoi will present for K-Music Critics’ Choice is The New Path, demonstrating a unique combination of Korean traditional music-based vocals, jazz bass and ambient sound. All the songs are composed by the three artists and this collaboration has a sanjo-like improvisation. The performance was part of the National Intangible Heritage Center’s 2020 Culture Day programme.

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LEENALCHI THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 19:00 GMT

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‘Leenalchi are a collective who’re really making waves at the moment.’

Nikki Bedi (BBC Broadcaster)

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Leenalchi are currently enjoying viral success with the video ‘Feel the Rhythm of Korea’, in collaboration with the Ambiguous Dance Company and the Korean Tourism Organisation, the video on YouTube has been seen over 27 million times.

Deconstructing and re-arranging traditional elements, with inspiration from 80’s new wave that you can’t help but move to, the group boasts four traditional vocalists: Song Hee Kwon, Yu Jin Shin, Yi Ho Ahn and Na Rae Lee, who deliver musical storytelling through solos, choir, rapping and dance. The band also features a drummer Chul Hee Lee and two bassists: Young Gyu Jang and Jung Yeop Jeong.

Bassist Jang’s previous credits include films Gokseong and Train to Busan, as well as being a member of Uhuhboo Project (who performed at K-Music 2013) and SsingSsing who opened the 2018 K-Music Festival to a sold-out crowd.

The performance Leenalchi will present for K-Music Critics’ Choice is about their first album, Sugungga, which is a pansori piece which consists of musical storytelling by a vocalist and a drummer. The performance was recorded at the Yeowoorak Festival hosted by the National Theater of Korea.

‘Leenalchi isn’t simply recreating its defining rhythms should be familiar to a Western audience. The recognizable and wonderfully NPR

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old Korean music — decidedly more result is strangely unfamiliar’

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CREDITS

Korean Cultural Centre UK Director: Jungwoo Lee Festival Director: Jaeyeon Park PR: Sally Reeves, Paul Wadey Admin Manager: Byunghyun Roh Design : Julia, Paris — www.julia.studio Coordinators: Daae Jung, Heeyeon Park

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