The Korean multi-instrumentalist plays the saenghwang and piri in a track from her upcoming album The Gleam
““Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans” was made for a silent black and white movie soundtrack that I performed live”, says musician and composer Park Jiha, explaining the beginnings of this new track from her third and forthcoming album The Gleam. “The intensity of clear lights arising in black and white movies like flashes of life in a monotone landscape, brings something very special. A sunrise on its own terms. That was the starting point of this track.”
The Gleam – which is explores the different ways that light creates emotional responses – features many instruments, all performed by Jiha. The piri (an oboe), saenghwang (a multi-pipe mouth organ), yanggeum (a dulcimer) and glockenspiel, are layered to create solo meditations on light in it's various stages, from “At Dawn” through to “Nightfall Dancer” and Temporary Inertia”.
Park Jiha has a two day residency at London Cafe Oto 28–29 March and will perform with artist Roy Claire Potter at Glasgow Counterflows Festival 31 March.
The Gleam is released via Glitterbeat on 25 February. It is reviewed by Francis Gooding in The Wire 456. Subscribers can read the magazine online via the digital archive.
