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Moonlight Fairy Come-From-Behind Grand Slam (달빛요정역전만루홈런)

When I visited Korea this summer, I tired to “catch up” Korean pop music, basically from indie scene, which I “neglected” for the last 4 years. I bought some, borrowed some, and downloaded many from the Internet (Soribada).
The first impression I got was that its “quality” is overall high, especially considering the Korean indie music [...]

Posted 15 November 2007 § korean pop now ‡ Comments (0) °

asian pop record covers

I happened to come across these fascinating album cover images on the web.
http://www.pbase.com/sid_presley/the_record_collection&page=all

Click the images and you can get bigger photos.
These are 1960s-70s pop record covers from Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indoneisa, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand. Among them are recognizable  some familiar names: Anita Sarawak (Malaysia), The Quests (Singapore — right?), Carnabeats (Japan), Teresa Teng [...]

Posted 19 September 2007 § asian pop ‡ Comments (2) °

North Korean music? Does it exist, anyway?

Sure, it does.  
In the lastest issue of a magazine I am subscribing, Songlines, I found an article about “North Korean music.” Click here to read the full text. A British guitarist, Jason Carter visited North Korea and played with NK music players. NK is known as a “secluded” country and it is not free to visit [...]

Posted 15 September 2007 § asian pop ‡ Comments (5) °