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K-Culture at Home #9 | Gugak Remix Series

The latest in the Gugak Remix Series from K-Culture at Home features the hit world music group Coreyah and songs from their 10th anniversary concert, Clap & Applause, available HERE for just one week, now through Tuesday, July 14 at 5 p.m. (EST)!

Clap & Applause

Coreyah

July 7 - 14

Clap & Applause celebrates the 10th anniversary of the innovative music group Coreyah, with a dance-inducing, exciting new vision for Korean world music. Korean traditional rhythms combine with toe-tapping and hand-clapping dance beats set to the sounds of the soulful daegeum flute, geomungo zither, and janggu hourglass drum. Coreyah's latest album set to release in 2020 continues their long-standing effort to infuse pop into traditional music through bold, youthful style, heartfelt lyrics, and a psychedelic band format. This fully subtitled performance recorded at Seoul Donhwamun Traditional Theater in late June 2020 was soon followed by Coreyah recently being featured on NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert.

Coreyah is a Korean world music ensemble whose six members integrate traditional Korean instruments, vocals, guitar, and percussion. Since their 2010 debut, Coreyah has pioneered a new style of Korean music that blends genres of contemporary ethnic and popular sounds while still maintaining the distinctive characteristics of traditional Korean instruments. The group's unique freewheeling, polystylistic vision combines a bariey if influences, including Anglo-American rock, Balkan gypsy, and genres from South America and Africa. The name Coreyah is a Sino-Korean homonym that refers to the inheritance of the past and also in Korean means “whale”—the group’s totem animal and good luck charm.

Coreyah's six musicians formed the group in 2010 and won the grand prize at the 2011 Cheonchamanbyeol Concert, a competition for new music hosted by Bukchon Changwoo Theater, before being selected for the grant program Tune Up. The following year, Coreyah defied expectations and proved that traditional music could attract just as much attention as flashy pop when they reached the top 16 on Top Band II, a band survival show on KBS in Korea. They embarked on a European tour and in 2013 received high marks at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Coreyah continues to delight audiences at home and abroad, and was recently featured on NPR’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. For more, visit their official website.

Premier

June 24, 2020 at Seoul Traditional Donhawamun Theater

Musicians

Dongkun Kim (daegeum, sogeum, tungso), Boyoung Ham (vocals), Chorong Kim (percussion, Chulhyungeum), Kyungyi (percussion), Jaehyeon Ko (guitar), Sunjin Na (geomungo)

Program

Walk into the Sea

Let’s Have a Blast

Clap!

Big Things

How Far Have You Come?

This recording will be available online for a limited time only, now through Tuesday, July 14 at 5 p.m. (EST). Watch at the link below!

The Gugak Remix Series: Connecting the World with Korean Traditional Music is a collaboration between the Korean Cultural Center Washington, D.C. and Seoul Traditional Donhwamun Theater that brings unique tradition-inspired music performances from the heart of Korea to global audiences. As many theaters and performing arts venues remain empty during the pandemic, this limited-term program allows artists to communicate on an intimate level with listeners, through full English subtitles of their performance commentary. Recorded video performances are carefully selected to introduce innovative Korean music groups that are recognized around the world and contribute to greater cross-cultural understanding. See the full schedule of upcoming released below. 

Performance Release Schedule

June 4 | GongMyoung: Space Bamboo

June 24 | Go-Back Project: Gugak Pop Concert

July 7 | Coreyah: Clap & Applause

July 21 | Jambinai: Jambinai

August 4 | Ak Dan Gwang Chil: Ak Dan Gwang Chil Concert

August 18 | Black String: Exhale-Puri