About Iseul Kim's Two Voices

Iseul Kim is Composer, pianist, singer and world traveler Iseul Kim is based in NYC and Seoul. She reveals her life stories and cultures through music that has no limits. Having traveled the world and experienced numerous cultures, she has been influenced by different musical styles her entire adult life. Thus, she eventually formed her 9 piece ensemble Two Voices with Korean traditional music influence.

Tearing down a genre and blending two different sounds can result in something completely new that didn't exist in the world before. The use of instrumentation for Two Voices makes this work special since it ranges from Korean traditional music to Western classical music. The music is a culmination of traditional, classical, jazz, and world music concepts that transforms into an original sound for Two Voices that Iseul Kim uniquely creates as her ‘signature sound’.

 

 

Hunoni (흐노니)

Composed by Iseul Kim

Performed by Iseul Kim's Two Voices

Gong Shim (공심)

Composed by Iseul Kim

Performed by Iseul Kim's Two Voices

Yeon (Lotus)

Composed by Iseul Kim

Performed by Iseul Kim's Two Voices

The Best Jazz on Bandcamp June, 2023

At times, Evolving unfolds as if a strict choreography were being enforced while systematically unraveling it; other times, the ensemble is set loose in free-flowing motion. Isuel Kim’s concoction of modern jazz, Korean traditional music, and classical musics lend themselves well to that environment—thrive in it, really—and the pianist-composer brings it to its fullest bloom. Instruments such as haegeum, daegeum, and janggu lock hands with piano, flute, bass, and drums, their steps as one, as violin and cello sweep them along.

-Dave Sumner-

Listen Iseul Kim's Two Voices

Live recorded in 2022 in Seoul

Released  May 28 2023 on Boomslang Records

Sponsored by Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture

 

Credits

Producer Iseul Kim (All Tracks)
All music except for Track 08. composed by Iseul Kim

08. Korean Sailor’s Song- Composed by Unknown, Korean Folk Song All music arranged by Iseul Kim

Haegeum Myeong Jin So Daegeum Joohwi Bae Janggu Hannah Kim Violin Dongsuk Park Cello Ok Jeong Kim Flute Youngeun Jeon Voice Yunmi Kang Piano Se-joung MIn Bass In Young Kim Drums Jaewon Lee

Recording Engineer Kyunghwan Lee, Jichang Son, Sena Kim Mixing Engineer Kyunghwan Lee
Mastering Engineer Kyunghwan Lee

Album Illustration Iseul Kim Design & Artwork Iseul Kim Publishing by Boomslang Records

 

Evolving

Composed by Iseul Kim

Performed by Iseul Kim's Two Voices

Two Voices 
(두개의소리)

Composed by Iseul Kim

Performed by Iseul Kim's Two Voices

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Tracks

01. Hunoni-Two Voices
02. Evolving- Two Voices
03. Gong Shim (Empty Mind) - Two Voices
04. Two Voices-Two Voices
05. Yeon (Lotus)-Two Voices
06. The Last Moon- Two Voices
07. El Razon-Two Voices
08. Korean Sailor’s Song- Two Voices (Korean Folk Song)

 

 

 

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