At Taey's opening night we were very happy to get a short performance from the brilliant Whang Bo Ryung (황보령), playing solo with only an acoustic guitar for accompaniment.
Her voice is a marvel just by itself- gravelly, heavily textured and full of gradient, accelerating from half-reflective dream-talk to full-throated aggro-punk yelp in the space of a bar.
The songs veered wildly across rapid, almost Celtic strumming, to rippling and unresolved arpeggiation, to sprawling, panoramic landscape.
With any luck, we will be able to see her play a big show on the 30th in Seoul in support of the vast and unpredictable "Mana Wind" record, which has been soundtracking our mornings here this last week.
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