Something Korean

Yeongsanhwesang is an hour-long piece of Korean traditional music that used to be played for middle to upper class locals, now echoeing substantially in the listener's ear. With Yeongsanhwesang, the horizon just keeps gently rising and dropping, its flow participated by all of the instruments present which include useful Korean drums, flutes and strings such as the geomun-go. Dated from the 18-1..

With much room to experiment in their history, early k-pop artists Sechs Kies featured adventurous vocal and on stage dancing performance, quite advanced if a bit less focused than today‘s k-pop, plus all diversely in accordance with individual characters of the members. Gliding across the stage while the rhythmic beats are going on, Eun Ji Won is surprisingly good both in rap and tunes, conside..

A lasting souvenir from early days of BTS, Spring Day is perfect for contemplating and enjoying its value starting from the short bygone days of gentle k-pop songs in Korean language released by BTS. I never realized its great lyrical potential until a humanities scholar dug it out from youtube for one of his lectures. I found this gem of a tune that was, for this video, heartbreakingly arranged..

Sung Si Kyung is a versatile vocalist with uniqueness that's ever getting ready to spring into not only the future, but also the now and the past music world. He won a singing contest around 23 years ago while studying to enter college, and that was the beginning of his now much advanced vocal career. Since then he has sung several, no, even more than several crooning songs that makes his fellow..

BoA has been working in entertainment in, to a large extent, Japan and on lesser turns, in her original home South Korea. Her Korean surname is Kwon which against the name BoA sounds young and refreshing, her having been born in the yet fruity year of 1986. Coming from South Korea’s SM Entertainment she started her career by singing No. 1 in 2002 and Atlantis Girl in 2003 for fans in South Korea..

In Yellow, Coldplay turned out shooting mysterious instrumental crosses onto the upright, musicological screen. One instrument jumps, gets on top and then another. Vocal is decidedly heterosexual, obviously and ostentiously from a boy. The rhythm is slow, shining and slightly fading throughout.

Led Zeppelin's works are as marvellous and fantastic as Gandalf's little smoke rings. In high school I avidly listened to, and was entranced by, their albums 1 to 4 plus Physical Graffiti, but the moving, viking-reminding Immigrant Song is left as the best track in my heart. (Did the real vikings come to Britain singing to something like this tune!) Now famous inspirational guitar and voice asid..

This delightful song could possibly be called EOS's title number among the more than dozen of its fellow songs. The lyrics are fantastic, calling upon the colourful magic of natural elements. It's got travellers' vision which is dispersed and then collected again, while the activities' ending seeks remembrance of a lost love. Like nearly every other EOS's song it sounds like sophisticated yet dy..

In my high school days in South Korea, I bought New Adventures in Hi-Fi in cassette format at a small record shop near the school and avidly started listening to the album, mostly made based on tour gigs. The first track, How the West was won and where it got us, feels like slow motion most of the time, as if its colour is earth-brown like the grounds of big gardens. Overall, the calm, soft, flo..

Throughout decades, SSAW have been turning out beautiful multi-hue songs as be fits their team's name. With their own guitar and drums - add to that their session people's harmony, and bravo! They succeeded in creating an unforgettable flow. For a start, listen to 'People all change', where Jongjin Kim, the two man band's vocal, croons steadfast and evokes low softness. Without his tune, this tr..