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Park Jiha: All Living Things review – effortlessly straddles ambient and modern classical


The Korean composer’s fourth album calls to mind Björk, Philip Glass and more as traditional instruments and electronic touches evoke the rhythms of life

F irst Buds, Growth Ring, Blown Leaves … the track titles of Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha’s fourth album flesh out the promise of a work that takes as its subject the juicy business of being organic. Repetitive musical elements echo the concentric cycles of rising and falling that occur over a lifetime; gradual evolutions mimic the adaptive nature of living beings. Take Growth Ring, which stars the saenghwang(a mouth organ) and the piri(a double reed flute) conducting a kind of call and response, like whalesong exchanges.

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