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South Korean singer-songwriter and producer musician Shin Jung Woo recorded
Gongjoong Doduk (2015) under the moniker
Gongjoongdoduk, a collection of lethargic guitar-based songs characterized by
rhythm and counterpoint that don't quite seem to match the melody,
and often interrupted by digital noise.
The post-rock lullabies White Room and Parasol
are relatively focused, but
Seismic swings from laid-back country meditation to gallopping violin-driven bluegrass breakdown,
Woo trots around jovial and loose until it detonates in pure noise,
the dreamy and jazzy Swamp feels like a remixed bossanova,
and the seven-minute The Knot glides over
Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies
and suddenly soars into a sort of garage rave-up.
All the songs have an element of dissonance and discordance.
He changed name to Mid-Air Thief for Crumbling (2018)
even more intricate folktronica dirges like Ahhhh These Chains, whose electroacoustic orchestration changes every moment,
Protector, a psychedelic swoon with convoluted vocal harmonies,
and Dirt, a more jarring and louder jam that ends in another psychedelic trance after a false orchestral upbeat intermezzo.
The nine-minute Crumbling Together begins like a church hymn, turns into a suicidal lament, embraces a Brazilian beat at the same time that it hints at Indian ragas, becomes a delirious invocation and fades away in a sputtering of guitar strumming.
The more rhythmic and danceable Gameun Deut in which percussion plays a key role. Elsewhere it is mostly decoration and often missing in action.
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