Introducing Jambinai… album due this Summer on Bella Union
Bella Union are very pleased to announce the signing of South Korean post-rock trio, JAMBINAI
Jambinai sound less like a band than a force of nature, fusing the full dramatic range of post-rock dynamics to Korean folk roots to create an exhilarating, vivid and unique fusion. Their instrumental music is coloured by Kim’s fiddle-like haegum, Ilwoo Lee’s guitar and piri (a Korean flute made of bamboo) and Eun Youg Sim’s geomungo, a Korean zither. They met studying traditional music at Korea’s National University of Arts, and found they were united by a desire to present such music in a new way, “to communicate with the ordinary person who doesn’t listen to Korean traditional music,” says Lee, the band’s principal writer. This makeover, however, eschews previous Korean modernists, who Lee says have used western classical music or jazz, for a molten fusion of metal, rock and experimental sound. “We’re darker than other Korean traditional bands,” Lee adds, with considerable understatement.
This summer will see them set off on a European tour, playing a number of venues and festivals, as well as a headline show at London’s Corsica Studios. Jambinai will also appear at this years Great Escape Festival in Brighton. Those dates below…
UK shows…
Monday 16th May – LONDON – Corsica Studios
Saturday 21st May – BRIGHTON – The Great Escape
European shows…
Wednesday 4th May – BARCELONA – Sala Apollo
Friday 6th May – Bourg en Bresse – Festival de Bourg en Bresse
Saturday 7th May – LYON – Nuits Sonores
Thursday 12th May – LA ROCHE SUR YON CEDEX – Fuzz’Yon
Friday 13th May – LAVAL – Le 6PAR4
Saturday 14th May – ST. BRIEUC – Artrock
Wednesday 18th May – BRUSSELS – ABClub
Thursday 19th May – GRONINGEN – Vera
Friday 20th May – DEN HAAG – Paard van Troje
Saturday 6th June – VORONEZH – Platonov Arts Festival
Friday 17th June – CLISSON – Hellfest
Saturday 18th June – BALLINLOUGH CASTLE – Body & Soul
Sunday 19th June – IZEL – Fete de la Musique
Friday 8th July – RUDOLSTADT – TFF Rudolstadt
Friday 15th July – OTTENHEIM – Ottenheims Open Air
Saturday 16th July – CARHAIX – Les Vielles Charrues
Thursday 21st July – NIJMEGEN – Valkhof Festival
Friday 29th July – BOTTNA – Clandestino Bottna
Sunday 31st July – SAINT–NAZAIRE CEDEX – Les Escales
Friday 5th August – LUIK – Micro Festival
Saturday 6th August – KATOWICE – Off Festival
Saturday 20th August – MALGUENAC – Festival de Malguenac
Friday 26th August – VENLO – Zomerparkfeest Venlo
