| Hwang, Jason Kao & Sang Won Park / Local Lingo |
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| Album: | Local Lingo | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Hwang, Jason Kao & Sang Won Park | Added: | Aug 2007 | |
| Label: | Euonymous | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2007-10-14 | Pull Date: | 2007-12-16 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Dec 16 | Dec 9 | Nov 25 | Nov 18 | Nov 4 | Oct 21 |
| Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Dec 14, 2007: | Memory Select Ari Rang | 4. | Nov 23, 2007: | Memory Select Third Sight | |
| 2. | Dec 14, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum Ari Rang | 5. | Nov 16, 2007: | No Cover, No Minimum Ari Rang | |
| 3. | Dec 07, 2007: | Memory Select Listen | 6. | Nov 02, 2007: | Memory Select Grassy Hills |
| Album Review |
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| Fo Reviewed 2007-10-13 | ||
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J.K. HWANG & S.W. PARK: Local Lingo Euonymous, 2007 Creative new music with an Asian outlook and a timeless sound. These duets place Hwang’s supple, clear violin against Park’s mysterious-sounding Korean zithers (the bowed ajeng and plucked kayagum) in atmospheric compositional/improv spaces that can be unsettling (1,4) inviting (2) or enigmatic (3, 5). All very good. Take your pick. 1. 08:57 – sweet violin & groaning ajeng: slow call & response, then stark and dramatic interplay: stabbing, wailing, weeping, chugging. 2. 06:54 – relaxed Korean folk song: pretty tune, plain vocal, turns bluesy! 3. 15:07 – thoughtful violin swims through rubbery kayagum tones; picks up a sort of walking rhythm, then long, slow solos for each. The kayagum is just amazing, it sounds sampled or effected, but it isn’t… 4. 09:05 – slashing, sawing bowed lines unite & clash; then classical-folksy violin dances, occasionally rejoining with ajeng for crushing power. 5. 07:25 – slow solo/duo variations on a theme, sliding and strange. [ Fo ] 13-Oct-07 | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Listen | 3. | Grassy Hills | |||
| 2. | Ari Rang | 4. | Third Sight | |||
| 5. | Embers | |||||