Glitterbeat bringen in Kürze ein neues Album des manchmal mit Verstärkung auftretenden südkoreanischen Duos Dal:um heraus. “Coexistence” ist das zweite längere Werk des aus Ha Suyean und Hwang Hyeyoung, die zwei regional verbreitete Formen der Zither – Gayageum and Geomungo – spielen, bestehenden Projektes. Der meist warme, holzige Klang der Instrumente, die hier ohne elektronische Beigaben zu hören sind, durchzieht alle Stücke mit zum Teil abrupten Tempo- und Richtungswechseln, bei denen mal perkussive Dynamik, mal besinnliches Picking im Vordergrund stehen. Das Album erscheint in den gängigen Formaten bei Glitterbeats Imprint für Instrumentalmusik Tak:til.

“Something magical is happening on the South Korean music scene, and it isn’t K-Pop. Blow away the froth, and it is soon apparent that in the concert halls and clubs of Seoul and beyond, a febrile music scene is bubbling up. The Dal:um duo are at the forefront of new Korean music, bringing a questing, modernising energy to timeless traditions. Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung grew up learning formal Korean gugak music, excelling on two different types of zithers: the gayageum and geomungo respectively. But these two young women soon became restless. Dal:um is the sound of 21st century Seoul, where the boundaries of tradition are stretched (and occasionally broken) to create something unique. Dal:um translates as ‘to keep pursuing something’, a name which couldn’t be more apposite. Suyean and Hyeyoung garnered wide acclaim and toured around the world with their debut album, Similar and Different (Tak:til/Glitterbeat, 2021), and with their second album, Coexistence, they are taking another leap forward. Similar and Different was the sound of two musicians pushing and pulling one another. In Coexistence they have become one: one with one another, one with the wider world around them, one with life itself. It is music that is deeply personal, but personal in the way that it absorbs the life that surrounds the pair, finding peace, fear, drama and – ultimately – hope”. (Glitterbeat)

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