Based on Black String’s latest album release, Karma, this closing concert could be the highlight of the festival. The concert is also part of the London Jazz Festival line-up.
K-music 2019: Black String
Monday 18 November 2019, 7:45pm
Southbank Centre / Purcell Room | Belvedere Road | London SE1 8XX
Tickets £15 + booking fee | Book tickets
ACT artists Black String burst on to the London scene eight years ago at the Jazz Festival and now the masters of traditional Korean music and jazz are back to make their mark on EFG London Jazz Festival 2019.
Their storming international debut Mask Dance (ACT) earned them a 2018 Songlines Music Award, their ceremony performance being a true representation of ‘borderless contemporary Korean music’. Their 2nd album will be released by ACT in the latter half of this year.
They present their band as ‘the unfathomable and endless possibilities of both the East and the West’ and have performed with prominent Korean musicians as well as many major UK artists, such as Kathryn Tickell, Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock.
The band brings together East and West, with Yoon Jeong Heo on geomungo, (zither-like stringed instrument with bridges and frets), Aram Lee on daegeum (large bamboo transverse flute) and yanggeum (hammered dulcimer-like metal stringed instrument), Jean Oh on guitar and electronics and Min Wang Hwang on vocals and percussion to offer a fresh, new sound to audiences by presenting ancient tradition within a modern setting
