KIM,SUNIK - Zero Chime (Sealed) (LP)

Sunik Kim is a New York City-based Korean-American artist and saxophonist exploring the idea of a "New Korean Music." After some time focusing on his education, Kim is re-emerging in 2019 with the debut album under his birth name. Zero Chime, Kim's new work merges Korean ??? exorcism, blinding free jazz in the vein of Albert Ayler and John Coltrane, sculptural computer music and mid-90s jungle in order to create an entirely new kind of rolling "energy music" that embodies a shamanic Korean spirit. Kim's work is grounded in a radical Korean politics, striving to convey as physically as possible Korea's largely disregarded—and ongoing—history of being oppressed, colonised and divided by imperialist powers. Koreans have a specific word burdened with this history—"han"—briefly defined as "a feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered...a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge." Kim's work is a sound-weapon aimed at the West, made of and embodying "han" in as true a sense as possible, a shamanic Korean colony-musik exorcising the ghosts of historical subjugation—and a brand new start