These Korean folk musicians set the roof on fire!

 

 

Check out these South-Korean folk-rockers. This appears to be a mix of folk, rock, blue-grass, hip-hop, rock and funk, performed on traditional Korean instruments, but as I understand it, this is all traditional Korean music, mixing sacred, shamanic and folk traditions of the Hwanghae-do region in North Korea.

So a thousand or maybe even two thousand years ago Koreans knew how to groove already! Goddamn, the sheer energy of this, it’s impossible to sit still listening to it. Very exciting music.

This is Ak Dan Gwang Chil (ADG7), a multi-award winning Korean traditional music group, featuring six Korean traditional musicians and three female folk singers. Founded in 2015, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Korea’s liberation from Japanese colonial rule. As one of the singers explains halfway in the video above, the music is an expression of the desire to be united with North Korea again.

Check their albums on Spotify. (PB)

18 december 2021 — Music

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