잠비나이

Jambinai Hangul 잠비나이 Are A Korean Post-Rock Fusion Gugak Band Formed In Seoul In 2009. Their Debut Album Différance Won The Award For Best Crossover Album At The 2013 Korean Music Awards. Their Sophomore Album Hermitage Was Released In 2016 On Bella Union. Jambinai Sound Less Like A Band Than A Force Of Nature Fusing The Full Dramatic Range Of Post-Rock Dynamics To Korean Folk Roots To Create An Exhilarating Vivid And Unique Fusion. Their Instrumental Music Is Coloured By Kim’s Fiddle-Like Haegum Ilwoo Lee’s Guitar And Piri A Korean Flute Made Of Bamboo And Eun Youg Sim’s Geomungo A Korean Zither. They Met Studying Traditional Music At Korea’s National University Of Arts And Found They Were United By A Desire To Present Such Music In A New Way “to Communicate With The Ordinary Person Who Doesn’t Listen To Korean Traditional Music ” Says Lee The Band’s Principal Writer. This Makeover However Eschews Previous Korean Modernists Who Lee Says Have Used Western Classical Music Or Jazz For A Molten Fusion Of Metal Rock And Experimental Sound. “We’re Darker Than Other Korean Traditional Bands ” Lee Adds With Considerable Understatement. read less