To Call Out Into The Night

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why we love this

Using only traditional instruments and spoken word, the duo crafts a minimalist yet expressive album that conjures up a distant, yet recognizable world. Best enjoyed at night by the flickering light.

about the record

While writer and performer Roy Claire Potter’s scouse delivery sounds contemporary, Park Jiha’s use of traditional Korean instruments including the harmonica-like saenghwang, a hammered dulcimer called a yanggeum, and bamboo flute displaces their sound somewhere different, calling to mind the enchanting effect of Hanne Lipard’s sound poetry and Mark Leckey’s fairy stories as much as the natural worlds evoked by Laua Cannell or the dextrous tekkerz of Okkyung Lee. For this writer especially, so much spoken word stuff can be a massive turn-off, usually when deployed with middle class southern accents, but our parochiality gets the better of us when it comes to accents from our native regions, and this one’s spot-on for its balance of unapologetic enunciation and parallax musical perspective.

Over the course of five parts, Park alters the instrumental backdrops to Roy’s storytelling lilt, variously keeping in step with her range of intensities. It’s possible to plot an escalation of energies from the shanty-like imagery and feel of ‘Saenghwang for the milky boys’ and ultimately the tempered seethe of ‘Yanggeum for snapped ankle’, with particularly penetrative results in the nagging then shimmering backdrops that underline Roy’s imagery of Anglesey depicted in ‘Yanggeum for Trwyn Du, at Penmon’, or their masterful elegy for a sunken North Walesian settlement in ‘Piri & Yanggeum for a flooded town’.

  1. 1 - Saenghwang for the milky boys 2:00
  2. 2 - Yanggeum for Trwyn Du, at Penmon 2:00
  3. 3 - Piri & Yanggeum for a flooded town 2:00
  4. 4 - Saenghwang for King's Palace tonight 2:00
  5. 5 - Yanggeum for snapped ankle 2:00

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To Call Out Into The Night

30,00

only 3 left

  1. 1 - Saenghwang for the milky boys 2:00
  2. 2 - Yanggeum for Trwyn Du, at Penmon 2:00
  3. 3 - Piri & Yanggeum for a flooded town 2:00
  4. 4 - Saenghwang for King's Palace tonight 2:00
  5. 5 - Yanggeum for snapped ankle 2:00

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why we love this

Using only traditional instruments and spoken word, the duo crafts a minimalist yet expressive album that conjures up a distant, yet recognizable world. Best enjoyed at night by the flickering light.

about the record

While writer and performer Roy Claire Potter’s scouse delivery sounds contemporary, Park Jiha’s use of traditional Korean instruments including the harmonica-like saenghwang, a hammered dulcimer called a yanggeum, and bamboo flute displaces their sound somewhere different, calling to mind the enchanting effect of Hanne Lipard’s sound poetry and Mark Leckey’s fairy stories as much as the natural worlds evoked by Laua Cannell or the dextrous tekkerz of Okkyung Lee. For this writer especially, so much spoken word stuff can be a massive turn-off, usually when deployed with middle class southern accents, but our parochiality gets the better of us when it comes to accents from our native regions, and this one’s spot-on for its balance of unapologetic enunciation and parallax musical perspective.

Over the course of five parts, Park alters the instrumental backdrops to Roy’s storytelling lilt, variously keeping in step with her range of intensities. It’s possible to plot an escalation of energies from the shanty-like imagery and feel of ‘Saenghwang for the milky boys’ and ultimately the tempered seethe of ‘Yanggeum for snapped ankle’, with particularly penetrative results in the nagging then shimmering backdrops that underline Roy’s imagery of Anglesey depicted in ‘Yanggeum for Trwyn Du, at Penmon’, or their masterful elegy for a sunken North Walesian settlement in ‘Piri & Yanggeum for a flooded town’.

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