Traditional Korean music includes both the folk, vocal, religious and ritual music styles of the Korean people. Korean music, along with arts, painting, and sculpture has been practiced since prehistoric times.
Two distinct musical cultures exist in Korea today: traditional music (Gugak) and Western music (yangak).
I made a video with few examples of integration of both Gugak and Yangak...so here it is:
SOREA is a Korean band that plays modern Korean traditional music and made its debut by winning the gold award in the Creative Korean Traditional Music competition. "SOREA" comes from the phrase “Symbol of Korea”, “sound of Korea”, and “Show of Korea” and it represents the Korean cultural art.
http://skranjan.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/girl-groups-thrive-in-traditional-music-scene-sorea-band/ more about Sorea
BYUL MA RU - Fusion Korean Classic Band.
Released their first album in Sept. '07
Byul Ma Ru is made up with Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard - Western instruments - and Dae-Geum, Ga-Ya-Geum, Hae-Guem, and Jang-Gu - Korean classic (traditional) instruments.
http://www.byulmaru.wo.to/ official website
http://www.youtube.com/user/byulmaru youtube page
JANYA is a daring new project incorporating traditional Korean instrumentation (Gayageum-Korean Zither, Daegeum-Bamboo flute, and Janggo- Drum with western vocals. The concept of this music is rooted in the Sinawi, a traditional form of Korean music used to accompany Korean Shamanic rites.
http://www.womex.com/virtual/danza_lola/janya/janya more about Janya
ORIENTAL EXPRESS has tried to present an extraordinary and unique music which incorporates various rhythmical beats such as jazz, rock, latin, funk, disco, and even electric sound into Korean-style melodies.
Synthesizing various different Western music techniques with Korean traditional melodies will make it easier to enjoy for those people who are not familiar with Korean traditional music.
http://www.myspace.com/orientalexpressband link to myspace
HYORIN`S ful l performance of Night BluesThat It Rains 비 내리는 영동교
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeafGeQB0U
Sungmin & Hyorin - Chunyang Opera Performance (Lunar New Year special, Pit-a-Pat Shake) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY28NOEdq1Q
Two distinct musical cultures exist in Korea today: traditional music (Gugak) and Western music (yangak).
I made a video with few examples of integration of both Gugak and Yangak...so here it is:
SOREA is a Korean band that plays modern Korean traditional music and made its debut by winning the gold award in the Creative Korean Traditional Music competition. "SOREA" comes from the phrase “Symbol of Korea”, “sound of Korea”, and “Show of Korea” and it represents the Korean cultural art.
http://skranjan.wordpress.com/2010/07/21/girl-groups-thrive-in-traditional-music-scene-sorea-band/ more about Sorea
BYUL MA RU - Fusion Korean Classic Band.
Released their first album in Sept. '07
Byul Ma Ru is made up with Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard - Western instruments - and Dae-Geum, Ga-Ya-Geum, Hae-Guem, and Jang-Gu - Korean classic (traditional) instruments.
http://www.byulmaru.wo.to/ official website
http://www.youtube.com/user/byulmaru youtube page
JANYA is a daring new project incorporating traditional Korean instrumentation (Gayageum-Korean Zither, Daegeum-Bamboo flute, and Janggo- Drum with western vocals. The concept of this music is rooted in the Sinawi, a traditional form of Korean music used to accompany Korean Shamanic rites.
http://www.womex.com/virtual/danza_lola/janya/janya more about Janya
ORIENTAL EXPRESS has tried to present an extraordinary and unique music which incorporates various rhythmical beats such as jazz, rock, latin, funk, disco, and even electric sound into Korean-style melodies.
Synthesizing various different Western music techniques with Korean traditional melodies will make it easier to enjoy for those people who are not familiar with Korean traditional music.
http://www.myspace.com/orientalexpressband link to myspace
HYORIN`S ful l performance of Night BluesThat It Rains 비 내리는 영동교
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEeafGeQB0U
Sungmin & Hyorin - Chunyang Opera Performance (Lunar New Year special, Pit-a-Pat Shake) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY28NOEdq1Q
