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- Summary: The life cycle of living things is at the theme of the fourth full-length release from Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha.
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- Record Label: Glitterbeat
- Genre(s): Avant-Garde, Korean
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Feb 14, 2025All Living Things effortlessly straddles ambient and modern classical, ancient and new. Park’s fertile themes here recall those of Björk’s Biophilia (2011), but with a big nod to the systems music of the American minimalists.
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UncutFeb 14, 2025Though former folk musician Jiha employs electronic means to embellish her pieces, its' her yanggeum, a hammered dulcimer, teasing out "Grounding"'s gentle melodies and hypnotising ius with a metallic tapping throughout "Breathe Again"'s gentle breeze. [Mar 2025, p.37]
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The WireFeb 14, 2025Wonder at the natural world has been an inspiration for musicians for as long as there has been music, but the mournful, realist shade to Park’s work makes that wonder all the more resonant and poignant now. [Mar 2025, p.52]
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Feb 14, 2025All Living Things shows how Jiha is able to navigate the border between the experimental and the accessible with confidence and deftness, its woozy textures and spectral aesthetics making for an engaging listening experience.