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Blue Suns

by Avant Trio

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Abdul-Him 07:14
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2.
Cohesive Force 03:49
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3.
Solar Buddha 05:38
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Controversy 03:04
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5.
Tembo Steps 07:31
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Gleanings 02:10
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Little White Stone 09:35
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Bush Winds 02:47
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East Suns 08:33
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The Loudest Silence 05:02
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Shaman 01:50
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Dadam 05:05
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Avant Trio ‘Blue Suns’

‘Blue’ like the notes they play. A color that matches the very specific Korean feeling of the blues that is called ‘Han’. ‘Suns’ for the warmth of the energy that they collectively communicate with solar lyricism.
‘Blue Suns’ like this three Korean musicians expressing the eternal tensions existing between opposites with an incredible sense of Freedom.

Francesca Han first gathered Kim Oki and Kim SungBae back in 2013 for concerts in Seoul around this common desire for free expression. Recording this unique Korean improvised music became an obvious necessity.

This album was recorded in two sessions of one day each in May and September 2014. No overdubs and all the pieces are first takes which are freely and collectively improvised. The ‘Avant Trio’ is truly a unique combination of musicians sharing their own strong artistic identity, and who are creating, from the depth of their heart, a common language never heard of before in Korea. And maybe beyond…

Pierre Biancarelli, 2015

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released February 28, 2015

Kim Sungbae: Double Bass
Francesca Han: Piano
Kim Oki: Tenor Saxophone

All music spontaneously composed through collective improvisations, except
1, 5~6 by Kim Sungbae
3 by Pierre Biancarelli
4, 12 by Francesca Han

Produced by Pierre Biancarelli
Recorded at Yul House (24th May 2014) & Yireh Studio (24th September 2014), Seoul
Engineered by Song Geunyoung at Yul House & Kim Yongkeun at Yireh Studio
Mixed by K at Slow Room, Seoul
Mastered by Steve Berson at Total Sonic Media, Austin TX, 2016
Design by : Jinho Bae
Art Work : 371a-19 (2013, oil on wood panel) by D Hwang dhwang.org
Photos by : Oh Nuri, Lee Euibeom
Photography: Hwang Sejin

P&C 2014 ILIL Sound

Also released in Remastered (by Gearbox Records) Limited 180gr Vinyl Edition by Lee Bongsoo on the PleasantVille series of his Beatball record label.

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Francesca Han is a Korean jazz pianist composer and improviser. Classically trained in South Korea, she immersed herself eight years in New York to study improvisation, with a Master’s degree in jazz performance at Queen’s College, as well as with mentors like Jason Moran or Ralph Alessi. After five years in Tokyo where she also explored the jazz scene, she is now based in the South of France ... more

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