Gayageum Player : Suna Park
Janggu Player & singer : Jonghun Jo
This music is made by the project "Gogeum gogeum" of Suna Park & Jonghun Jo. 'Gogeum gogeum' means 'old & new, Janggu & Gayageum'. Park and Jo are Korean musicians who play Korean traditional music. This is a newly created music based on Korean traditional music.

Gogeum gogeum of Suna Park & Jonghun Jo (promotional music source)

East Coast Byulsingut and jazz, balance and harmony based on improvisation 

Complexed and strong improvisation rhythm, unique and originative melody. It is a common point between jazz and East Coast music. In the <Byulsinak> stage, which focuses on these things in common, it reproduces the harmonious melody and rhythm in a modern way and brings out the depth and variety of music. 
In addition to Jo Jong-hun, who keeps the essence of East Coast ancestral music, Australia's drummer Simon Barker fully understands and manages his own style. 
Jazz drums, jazz pianos, and Korean traditional musical instruments such as Saenghwang, Piri, Taepyeongso and Yanggeum will show balance and harmonious based on improvisation. 

Encounter two genres of improvisation - The harmony of jazz and the East coast 

Korean gut music has a strong improvisation, These characteristics are unquestionably revealed in the East Coast Byulsingut. In particular, the instrumentation of the East Coast Byulsingut music is composed only of percussion instruments, unlike the gut music of other regions, and plays a leading role in all consciousness music. As the conscious music consisted only of percussion instruments was continuously carried around the specific family for a long time, the musical structure of rhythm was strengthened. In addition, the long rhythm cycle possessed by each rhythm of the East Coast Byulsingut has the characteristic that the structure and texture of the rhythm can be changed in various ways according to the musical competence of the performer because the rhythm variation is easy. 
Based on the original characteristics of this East Sea Byulsingut, I would like to create works with other genres within the range of not compromising the prototype. In this performance, we try to expand the possibilities of Korean jazz by combining jazz improvisation and harmony with the rhythm melody of the East Coast Byulsingut through collaboration with jazz musicians. 
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released November 9, 2017

바다 Bada

청보 Cheong Bo

푸너리 Puneori

You can listen to the sound of ceramic janggos which were now disappeared in Korea! 

The beautiful celadon glazes and exquisite workmanship of Korean ceramics were renown throughout the ancient world. So popular were these product that around 700 years ago, there were even "ceramic janggos" being made on Korean peninsula. These elegant creations were not merely decorative but were functional musical instruments. Today, only wooden janggos have remained and are used in contemporary music performance. 

I wondered why these beautiful ceramic janggos had disappeared and how they must have sounded. So, I traveled throughout Korea and China on the quest to learn the history of ceramic janggos. 

As the result of my study on how they were made and used, I began restoring ceramic janggos and began composing new music to play on them. 
On this album, you can listen to the music I composed and arranged to reflect the memories of those journeys.
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released February 18, 2016

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