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Review: 'JAMBINAI'
'A Hermitage'   

-  Label: 'Bella Union'
-  Genre: 'Post-Rock' -  Release Date: '17th June 2016'

Our Rating:
There aren't too many records that come out of South Korea but this young trio makes you hope there's plenty more where this came from.

Jambinai’s instrumental music will doubtless be classified as post-rock but this seems far too reductive a term.

Alongside the eclectic jazz and noise cocktail, one of the things that makes their sound so distinctive is the exotic and adventurous instrumentation. Bomi Kim plays a fiddle-like haegum, principal writer Ilwoo Lee plays guitar and a piri (a Korean flute made of bamboo) while Eun Youg Sim plucks a geomungo, a Korean zither.

Although the three met studying traditional music at Korea’s National University of Arts, Lee says their desire is “to communicate with the ordinary person who doesn't listen to Korean traditional music”. And make no mistake, this is about as far from the contemplative or soothing Eastern music as you can get.

The power and intensity of their music taps into the feelings of anger and isolation felt by a new generation suspicious of the conservative forces that seek to control them.

About the organized chaos of Deus Benedicat Tibi, Lee says "Our song expresses a person who overcomes all hardship and suffering. I dedicate this song to the people who live in pain, to say: ‘You are the king in your own life’”.

Of the eight tracks, Abyss is the only one to feature vocals and you don't have to understand a word of Korean rapper Ignito to feel the sense of grievance and defiance.

In Korean, Hermitage translates as ‘Eun-Seo’. This means a person, or creature, who is hiding like a hermit, or undiscovered. Well, Jambinai are hidden no longer and here's hoping they can step into the limelight and build upon this remarkable record.
  author: Martin Raybould

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JAMBINAI - A Hermitage