Korean Prog at the Olympics?
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Topic: Korean Prog at the Olympics?
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Subject: Korean Prog at the Olympics?
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 06:29
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Did anybody watch the closing ceremonies of the Pyeongchang olympics last night? Early on, there was a segment with a bunch of traditional Korean stringed instruments (played horizontally like a steel guitar, but plucked with long sticks), and there was a Korean rock band in the center. One woman in the rock band was playing something that looked like a hillbilly tub bass, but it was electrified and she was bowing it like a cello. WTF was that? There were occasional cutaways to a young dude wailing on electric guitar. Anyway, it all came off sounding pretty proggy to me, especially those traditional instruments in concert with the rock band. Anyone agree? [Update] The Korean bands name is "Jambinai". Here's a link to their Bandcamp page: https://jambinai.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - https://jambinai.bandcamp.com/ They are tagged as post-rock, but they sound more like prog metal to me. And the traditional instruments are called: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomungo" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomungo And the hillbilly bucket bass is called a: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haegeum" rel="nofollow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haegeum [Update Update] Doh! (in my best Homer Simpson impression)... I should have checked PA first. They have an entry here: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=10008" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=10008 |
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Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 07:49
| thought the same thing--seemed prog like for sure |
Posted By: wiz_d_kidd
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 07:58
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Here's a video of the olympic performance... |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 12:36
Yes, it sounded prog enough for me. Very good and entertaining.
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twosteves wrote:Posted By: vicprog
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 18:11
| Yeah, that Korean music is very complex, rock like and also sounds prog to me |
Posted By: tboyd1802
Date Posted: February 26 2018 at 18:36
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Saw it too. Thanks for posting band info... ------------- He neither drank, smoked, nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally, saving his money, he died early, surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me -- John Barrymore |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 01:56
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Pretty nuts! Korean Prog Olympics almost sounds like a band name. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: BarryGlibb
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 03:03
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Add them to PA ASAP; I like it! Oh they are on PA..... It's not prog metal though. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 07:32
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Wow, Korean prog at the Olympics. Whooda thunk it? ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: SteveG
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 07:40
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True story. I once met a Korean Elvis impersonator on an airplane flight... ------------- This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State. |
Posted By: axeman
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 19:00
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Probably Post-rock is the best we can hope for.
It's the currently-recognized name for this type of music. ------------- -John |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: February 27 2018 at 20:44
yeah.. the closest I've been to Korean prog is having my nose broken (the 2nd of the 4 times it has) by a Korean in a bar fight. Proudly taken for he came off worse.... knocked him out cold with a bar stool over his head. Oh the good old days... that sh*t gets you in big trouble now. Then it just got you tossed out the door with warnings never to come back. I love the bars out west with saw dust on the floor.. it is an open invitation to spill blood. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: February 28 2018 at 11:32
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No, I didn't notice anything proggy being played during the closing ceremony of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: WeepingElf
Date Posted: February 28 2018 at 13:43
It's rather post-rock with Korean traditional instruments added to me - but recently, it has become fashionable in the hipster press to call post-rock "prog rock". That's another case of the same expression meaning different things in different fields of discourse, in this case the fields of classic rock vs. alternative rock  ------------- ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf "What does Elvish rock music sound like?" - "Yes." |