Park Jiha & Roy Claire Potter - To Call Out Into The Night (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Cafe Oto - returns with yet another consciousness altering release, Park Jiha and Roy Claire Potter's "To Call Out Into the Night". Seamlessly intertwining experimental music, sound art, sound poetry, and aspects of traditional Korean music, it's a tense and stunningly beautiful dance of linguistics at the intersection of multiple worlds, that stands as a profound advocation for the fruits born from cross-disciplinary collaboration.

“To Call Out Into the Night” captures a one-off first meeting between Jiha and Potter, that occurred in London at the end of January 2020, and was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 the following month. Comprising five individual pieces, with Jiha masterfully playing two different traditional Korean instruments - the saenghwang, a mouth organ constructed from seventeen vertically mounted bamboo pipes, each with a metal free reed, and the piri, a double reed flute - against Potter’s spoken delivery of texts. Remarkably spacious, Jiha’s rich interventions of tonality play a brilliant foil against the bristling vocal utterances of Potter’s poetics, shift between a sense of playfulness and foreboding, creating expected textures that flirt with melody while resisting their formation. Most striking is the sense of space that Jiha and Potter offer the other across the length of the album, constructing a complementary dance of linguistic interplay that is singular, and builds a world entirely its own, each artist speaking in and out of time, without presumption and expectation.

Tracklist:
01. Saenghwang for the milky boys
02. Yanggeum for Trwyn Du, at Penmon
03. Piri & Yanggeum for a flooded town
04. Saenghwang for King's Palace tonight
05. Yanggeum for snapped ankle


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