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Byungki Hwang: The Best of Korean Gayageum Music (Arc/Elite)
...album by Korea's acknowledged master of the gayageum contains a cycle of such tea music pieces (for... ...stringed instrument, the gayageum, and voice) and a number of other equally...
Tagged with: byungki hwang | cheng yu | oud | shanghai lounge divas | silk string quartet |
World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/1302/byungki-hwang-the-best-of-korean-gayageum-music-arc-elite/

Chinbat Baasankhuu: The Art of the Mongolian Yatga (Arc Music)
...is like a cross-border cousin to the Korean gayageum, Japanese koto and Chinese gu-zheng. We're... ...in Ulan Bator is the one. As with the great gayageum master Bjungki Hwang, she makes the instrument...
World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/6839/chinbat-baasankhuu-the-art-of-the-mongolian-yatga-arc-music/

Park/Kaiser/Moyes: OO-AA-YI (1984, extract only)
...a live recording of improvisations by Korean gayageum player (and vocalist) Sang-Won Park,... ...tends to get much turntable time either. The gayageum is an interesting instrument (see here for an...
From the Vaults: fromthevaults/6231/park-kaiser-moyes-oo-aa-yi-1984-extract-only/

JAZZQUAKE HITS CAPITAL: Dotting the ts and crossing the iiiis
...alludes to traditonal Japanese koto and Korean gayageum tunings) and is in front of, and then with,...
Tagged with: new zealand jazz |
Jazz at Elsewhere: jazz/5730/jazzquake-hits-capital-dotting-the-ts-and-crossing-the-iiiis/

FRED FRITH CONSIDERED (2015): The prince of plinkety-plunk
...at other points he seems to be alluding to the gayageum music of Korea or Japanese koto (Not...
Absolute Elsewhere: absoluteelsewhere/6772/fred-frith-considered-2015-the-prince-of-plinkety-plunk/

SHIVKUMAR SHARMA INTERVIEWED (2012): Answering the master's call
...here) rescued the tradition of the gayageum from being lost, and in the West the great...
Tagged with: womad 2012 |
World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/4784/shivkumar-sharma-interviewed-2012-answering-the-masters-call/

Shin Joong Hyun: Beautiful Rivers and Mountains; The Psychedelic Rock Sound of South Korea 1958-1974 (Light in the Attic/Southbound)
...destination) has its legendary musicians (gayageum master Byungki Hwang, interviewed here), the...
Music at Elsewhere: music/4512/shin-joong-hyun-beautiful-rivers-and-mountains-the-psychedelic-rock-sound-of-south-korea-1958-1974-light-in-the-attic-southbound/

Gunter Herbig: Flower of the Sea (Rattle/bandcamp)
...and played on pipa, or even the Korean gayageum. In its gentle and spacious repetition, it is...
Music at Elsewhere: music/10348/gunter-herbig-flower-of-the-sea-rattle-bandcamp/
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . . BYUNGKI HWANG: a Korean master musician at home
...leading player of the traditional gayageum -- a unique stringed instrument. As a young... ...the centre of the room. In a side room a dozen gayageum stand along the walls. The Korean gayageum --... ...the professor is quick to make. “The gayageum is of the zither family,” says Hwang as... ...they are outside the body of the musician. The gayageum is played with the fingernails and we hold it... ...player’s flesh. “In many ways the gayageum is the core of all Oriental string... ...difficult music for Western people, Korean gayageum music doesn’t use harmony -- and there... ...mention his friendship with George Harrison), gayageum music remains on the margins of Western... ...80s brought traditional instruments like the gayageum and janggu (hourglass drum) together with... ...across the peninsula, Hwang began studying gayageum in Busan (also written as Pusan). With the... ...only 26 rather daringly began to compose for gayageum. “In former times there was no concept...
Tagged with: we need to talk about |
WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT . . .: weneedtotalkabout/2191/we-need-to-talk-about-byungki-hwang-a-korean-master-musician-at-home/

Gao Hong and Zhao Xiaoxia: Prelude to the Divine Realm (ARC Music/digital outlets)
...interviewing the (now late) master of Korean gayageum Byunkgi Hwang . . . And in southwest China... ...plucked guqin which is like a cousin of the gayageum. This new album by two women who are...
World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/11392/gao-hong-and-zhao-xiaoxia-prelude-to-the-divine-realm-arc-music-digital-outlets/

Tri Nguyen: The Art of the Japanese Zither (ARC Music)
...with the Korean gayageum, the 16-string Vietnamese zither (dan tranh,...
World Music from Elsewhere: world-music/8806/tri-nguyen-the-art-of-the-japanese-zither-arc-music/
Seoul, South Korea: Soul to Seoul, a bloggers journal 2008
...home of Professor Hwang -- the master of the gayageum and who perhaps single-handedly preserved the... ...man: when he first started learning the gayageum (like a zither) in the early 50s his country... ...had passed on. "When I began to learn gayageum in 1950," he said, "only about a... ...new gayageum were being sold each year. Now there are... ...traditional music and the sound of the gayageum is so popular that there has emerged the... ...Western classical instrumentation with gayageum passes lightly over what he thinks of that....
Tagged with: byungki hwang | journalism | postcards from elsewhere | seoul | the idiot boy who flew | travel stories | ullungdo, south korea |
Travels in Elsewhere: travelstories/1799/seoul-south-korea-soul-to-seoul-a-bloggers-journal-2008/