Jambinai, the most successful post-rock band from Korea

Hello, Steemians! @yonah from Korea here. There are many communities in Steemit, but barriers of language and culture prevent everyone from communicating. I hope that every single Steemian is free to communicate regardless of their origin or language.

Therefore, I decided to post writings about Korean culture to introduce it. Musics, movies, festivals, ... hope you guys enjoy this :)

Jambinai: the most successful Korean post-rock band

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.

introduction from Bella Union

( please hit the play button before you read!)

Jabinai's music is categorized into 'post rock', but their music is quite difficult to define in one word. Their music is heavily based on traditional Korean music. The instruments they are using are Korean traditional ones, and The emotion of music also contains 'Han', which is unique cultural sentiment in Korea.

They began to become famous through various festivals both at Korea and abroad(Finland, Mexico, US, ...).

In 2014 they joined SXSW, the largest music festival in the United States, with fellow Korean musicians, and they also stood on the Glastonbury stage in the same year.

Jambinai is the first Asian band to sign the British label 'Bella Union'. After joining the label, they are playing their music all over the world. (Some Korean fans are kidding about them 'Please perform in Korea. Please visit Korea')

In 2016 they performed at Hellfest, France.

They have released two regular CDs and one EP, and they are still continuing their musical activities.

(this is full video of their live performonce. watch if you are interested in!)

Thank you for reading this. If you are curious about Korean culture or anything else, do not hesitate to ask about it. I'll do my best letting you know about it!