Jambinai - ONDA on CD

Description

When the three founders of Jambinai decided to, "communicate with the ordinary person who doesn't listen to Korean traditional music," few outsiders anticipated an extra-ordinary fusion with metal, post-rock and noise. "Most people expect Asian traditional music to make something smooth for yoga or meditation," says band spokesman Lee Il-woo. "We wanted to break all of that." Even fewer would have predicted that the likes of Jambinai would play the 2018 Winter Olympic Games closing ceremony in their home city of Seoul, accompanied by a troupe of geomungo (Korean zither) players - an audio-visual spectacle that such an occasion demanded. Now comes ONDA, their spectacular new album on Bella Union. Says Lee, "Onda means 'come' in Korean. The title track has the lyric, 'At the end of your darkness, pain will turn into the shining stars and it's going to come to you.' I want to cheer people up when they hear that track. Onda also means 'wave' in Spanish, and I also want to say the third big wave of Jambinai is coming!"

Tracks

1. Sawtooth
2. Square Wave
3. Event Horizon
4. Sun. Tears. Red
5. In the Woods
6. Small Consolation
7. ONDA Prelude
8. ONDA