Dongyang Gozupa
A unique fusion of folk music and progressive rock from a leading ensemble of South Korea's new wave of traditional music. There has been a truly electrifying and ever-expanding new wave of South Korean musicians using traditional Korean folk and classical music to discover new directions and meanings in sound over the past 15 years – and Dongyang Gozupa are at the forefront. Dongyang Gozupa are an instrumental trio based around the yanggeum (Korean hammered dulcimer) of Yun Eunhwa, together with Ham Minhwi on bass and Jang Dohyuk on percussion kit. Their main musical frames of reference are prog rock and gugak (traditional Korean music), bringing them together with hints of metal, industrial, pop, psychedelia and the avant garde. They bounce these styles off each other, challenging and evolving them as they go, making a sound that can be dark and dissonant, but which always retains a playfulness and a sense of fun. This is a power-trio like you’ve never seen before!
st john's college
tue 10 nov · 6.30pm
listed by The World's Music at Oxford