South Korea

A 34-minute instrumental journey across South Korea — eight cities in one continuous arc, from the gugak-meets-indie twilight of Seoul to the shamanic sea-ritual of Gangneung. No vocals; pure instrumental storytelling.

Each track is composed from the music of its place: the cosmopolitan dusk of Seoul, where court gayageum drifts into Hongdae jazz; the anguished, cathartic pansori of Jeonju, rendered on a rough-timbred ajaeng; the satirical Hahoe mask-dance and Confucian ritual of Andong; the Silla-dynasty Buddhist temple bells of Gyeongju, where the silence between strikes is the rhythm; the southern namdo folk of Gwangju, carrying the spirit of its 1980 democratic uprising; and the UNESCO-listed Danoje shamanic gut-ritual of Gangneung on the eastern sea.