Korean rock act Jambinai release first single/music video from their upcoming new record. The band utitlizes traditional Korean instruments with a heavy rock base. Here’s more info about the band:
“South Korean trio Jambinai sound less like a band than a force of nature, fusing the full dramatic range of post-rock dynamics to Korean folk roots to create an exhilarating, vivid and unique fusion. Hermitage, the band’s second album and first for Bella Union, was recorded in the South Korean capital Seoul and will be released 17th June. The first track to be revealed from the album is They Keep Silence which is streaming HERE. Additionally, following their two performances at SXSW this week, Jambinai have announced a London headline show at Corsica Studios as well as an appearance at The Great Escape in Brighton, the details of which will follow soon.
Jambinais instrumental music is coloured by Bomi Kims fiddle-like haegum, Ilwoo Lees guitar and piri (a Korean flute made of bamboo) and Eun Youg Sims geomungo, a Korean zither. They met studying traditional music at Koreas National University of Arts, and found they were united by a desire to present such music in a new way, to communicate with the ordinary person who doesn’t listen to Korean traditional music, says Lee, the bands principal writer. This makeover, however, eschews previous Korean modernists, who Lee says have used western classical music or jazz, for a molten fusion of metal, rock and experimental sound. Were darker than other Korean traditional bands, Lee adds, with considerable understatement.
Understandably, Jambinai have shocked Korean audiences unused to the kind of intensity and adventurism that the trio have made their own. Yet their debut album Différance won Best Crossover Album at the 2013 Korean Music Awards (they were also nominated for Best Jazz & Crossover Performance), which the band used as a springboard for several overseas tours, as a quintet with Byeongkoo Yu (bass) and Jae Hyuk Choi (drums). Reviewing Jambinai at Londons K-Music festival in 2015, The Guardian described the band as thrilling, unexpected and perfectly controlled, noting their mixture of atmospheric pieces with bursts of furious energy, with constant changes of mood and volume.
The inspiration for Jaminais music taps into the feelings of anger and isolation felt by a younger generation suspicious of the conservative forces that seek to control them. Deus Benedicat Tibi, for example, was inspired by the ‘Dae Chui Ta’, a piece of Korean traditional martial music written for the king when he marches down the street, Lee explains. Nowadays, especially in Korea, many give up their dreams because life gets worse every day. We have the world’s highest suicide rate. Our song expresses a person who overcomes all hardship and suffering. I dedicate this song to the people who live in pain, to say, You are the king in your own life.
Music this rousing and beautiful, rising and subsiding in epic fashion, will doubtless trigger a flood of intense or even apocalyptic images. Yet Jambinai also represent a positive force, resisting the old ways and reinventing the future.
Hermitage will be released 17th June on Bella Union.”
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