Music from South Korea

Portrait CD of Yongbom Lee: five works for ensembles, sampler and electronics, played by Ensemble Modern, IEMA Ensemble and ensemble recherche, Broken Frames Syndicate and the cellist Kyubin Hwang, recorded in Frankfurt (2023) and Cologne (2024).

On Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 008: Salamanda (Basil), Salamanda miniaturise their left‑field ambient world into a single pot on a windowsill: a slow, luminous day‑in‑the‑life of a basil plant where light, water and time turn into gentle pulses, dri…

*2026 stock* The third studio album by Kuang Program, undoubtedly one of Seoul's most daring bands. Novelist Kang Hee-young introduces that this album, which betrays listeners' traditional expectations for 'rock', most faithfully reflects the musica…

*2026 stock* Recording Kang Taehwan’s music, his underground practice room has been the place where he has spent the most time with his saxophone and remains his most familiar space. The concrete and brick finishes, high ceiling, and asymmetrical str…

Four post-serialistic "sound compositions" with elements of traditional Korean music from the 1960's, respectively for chamber ensemble, piano and violin, orchestra and solo organ, released on Wergo's great "Studio Reihe Neuer Musik" experimental mus…

** Hand numbered edition of 250 ** There is a profound resonance between the practices of Nam June Paik and Park Jiha - separated by generations yet united by a shared impulse to dissolve boundaries between Korean tradition and contemporary expressio…

A rare artist record and sonic memoir. Published in 1977 in an edition of only 100 copies, hand numbered and signed by the artist on the record label. The B-side features grey/black art by Nam June Paik. This extraordinary document captures Paik perf…

A rare screenprint and offset print by the legendary video art pioneer. Published by Edition Block in an edition of 60, signed and numbered, 55.4 x 82 cm. Nam June Paik (*1932 Seoul – †2006 Miami), the founding father of video art, consistently explo…

Signed. Comes with its original record bag/shopper! When George Maciunas died in New York in 1978, aged 47, Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik did what artists do when words fail: they played. The piano duet they performed at Düsseldorf's Kunstakademie l…

1993 release ** "Sur cette gravure, Irmela Nolte propose un beau jeu allié à une technique nécessaire quant à ce répertoire, agile, au service des œuvres regroupées ici et dont l’on n’entend pas outre mesure son souffle ni sa respiration. Un panorama…

"A bewitching fusion of ambient jazz and traditional Korean instrumentation - piri,saenghwang and yanggeum - casting a spell not unlike that of Arooi Aftab's Vulture Prince." - UNCUT

Big two-sided invitation card to a 1983 Fluxus exhibition at daadgalerie in Berlin featuring John Cage and Nam June Paik.

Hardcover, big size. The publication homes in on a feature of the work of media artist Nam June Paik that has been largely overlooked: live moments, a consistent element running all through his artistic career. The immediate experience of the audienc…

Live performance of two of the most important South Korean free music players Kim Dae Hwan on drums and Choi Sun Bae on trumpet.  Recorded live on 26th November, 1999 at Aspirante, Hofu City, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi.

*2023 stock* "Kami Fusen" is the second volume in the ongoing collaboration between NoBusiness and Chap Chap Records, after the excellent "The Conscience"by Rutherford and Toyozumi. This time, all the musicians come from the Far East: Itaru Oki was o…

* Hardcover Edition. Large size, nearly 500 pages * Essays, project plans, and correspondence from across Nam Jun Paik's career, much of it previously out of print or unpublished. Nam June Paik (1932–2006) is a pivotal figure in the history of modern…

Kang Tae Hwan plays alto sax with a rawness that's usually reserved for the tenor – a fantastic sound that really comes through beautifully here in this solo set of improvisations! The material was recorded around the same time as Kang's brilliant (a…

300 copies. Mototeru Takagi (tenor saxophone) Kim Dae Hwan (percussion) Choi Sun Bae (trumpet). NoBusiness Records in cooperation with Japanese Chap-Chap Records has started a series of releases of unreleased concerts that took place in Japan in the …

Full recording of one of the most engaging and beguiling Late Junction live sessions we’ve ever heard - the one off first meeting between Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and writer and performer Roy Claire Potter.  Park Jiha plays the saenghwa…

Human Pitch is proud to welcome Salamanda to the label for the release of their 3rd LP, ashbalkum––a portal into unseen worlds, enchanting stasis and laughter in the face of our evolving realities. Across an effervescent 39-minute runtime, ashbalkum …

With their 2018–2019 Isang Yun Recording Project, ItalianCellist Luigi Piovano and Pianist Aldo Orvieto pay homageto the late Korean composer and the tragic course of his life. “The events that marked Isang Yun’s life emblematically show the miserabl…

Tip! *In process of stocking* Like its predecessor, Philos, The Gleam is a completely solo work, all the music composed and played by Park Jiha on the piri, a type of oboe, the saenghwang, a mouth organ (shown on the album cover art), the hammered du…

2019 repress. "This is a wide panorama of Nam June Paik work as musician -- 'Hommage à John Cage' (1958-1959), 'Étude for Pianoforte' (1959-1960) and 'Simple' (1961) are good exemple of neodada music and de-structuration in the late 50's, this is bas…

Park Jiha’s debut album Communion - released internationally by tak:til last year - drew well deserved attention to the young Korean instrumentalist / composer’s vivid soundworld. The widely acclaimed album graced 2018 critics lists at The WIRE, Pop …

Edition of 300 copies. Lovely archival recording by this incredible due comprised of Midori Takada - percussion and Kang Tae Hwan - alto saxophone. Recorded live on the 14nd March 1995 at Café Amores, Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan by Takeo Suetomi. Concert …

Edition of 300. Recorder live in 1995. Creative musicians from Korea are a rare breed. According to the liner notes, when the Kang Tae-HwanSaxist Trio came to Japan to play at Tokyo Meeting in 1985, they were a shock to those who knew about the Japan…

180 gram vinyl; Includes download code. "I don't want to play only traditional music. I want to play my own music... my own stories." --Park Jiha Over the last few years a rising tide of new Korean artists have staked a place in the global music conv…

Lovely archival recording by this incredible trio comprised of Midori Takada - marimba, percussion Kang Tae Hwan - alto saxophone Masahiko Satoh - piano. Recorded live on the 27th May, 1995 at Design Plaza Hofu, Yamaguchi, Japan

Itaru Oki – trumpet, bamboo fluteNobuyoshi Ino - bassChoi Sun Bae - trumpet

Reissue of tape from 1972. Edition of 200 copies. "a re-issue of a tape originally published by albrecht.d in 1972 through his Reflection Press, Stuttgart. The artists on the recording are supporting Wolf Vostell  because Frankfurter gale…

Long deleted, last copies around: This is a simultaneous performance of "Coyote III" and "Pianovariation 1984". Recording of a performance at Seibu Museum of Art (Sôgetsu Hall), Tokyo, June 2nd 1984. Paste-on front cover with rubber stamped back cove…

In 1963, Nam June Paik created a new genre of exhibition with his first solo show, The Exposition of Electronic Music-Electronic Television at Galerie Parnass in Wuppertal, West Germany. Fresh from his studies with John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen…

Elliott Carter's Oboe Quartet and solo pieces, and Isang Yun's Piri and Quartet for oboe and string trio, played by Heinz Holliger, Thomas Zehetmair, Ruth Killius and Thomas Demenga. Recorded 2001-2002 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Thomas Demenga (cello) plays Bach's Cello Suites Nos. 5 and 6 between chamber works by Toshio Hosokawa and Isang Yun, with Teodoro Anzellotti, Asako Urushihara, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Thomas Larcher, Aurèle Nicolet and Heinz Holliger. Recorded 1985-…

Haydn's Symphonies No. 39 and No. 45 'Farewell' with Isang Yun's Chamber Symphony I (1987), played by the Münchener Kammerorchester under Alexander Liebreich; recorded in May 2007 at the Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich-Sendling.

Private edition limited to 200 copies "A documentation of Charlotte Moorman activities as a performer is generally available only on the iconographic level in various catalogues which documents the crucial intersection with the work of Nam June Paik …