Oan Kim

Piano, violin, saxophone, guitar, keyboards, like instruments, Oan Kim has practiced many musical styles. From contemporary music to indie pop-rock, classical to film music, he swept such a broad spectrum that, if one had to choose, Oan would be drawn in opposite directions.

To unite them all, to become the magnet that will draw them so strongly to each other, that no partition could stand between them. Merge them on a series of photos in jazz colors, fix them in shades that he himself has shaped. In a hybrid musical mix where influences and past experiences form one.

Crackling, crushing and buckles then join together. Printed circuits do their work, divert, deconstruct and reshape sound in their own way. The guitar becomes unrecognizable, the modulations are installed to accompany drums and percussions. In details made perceptible by the only audio headset, the electro rhythmic ballet is set up.

The contrast of the photo increases, becoming striking.

Raw, the saxophone settles there. Spontaneous. Bare. The breath captured closer to the notes that escort a slight wind murmur. Improvisations that find their echo in the rock years of Oan, when simplicity was the rule, as well as in the roughness of traditional Korean music, paternal heritage.

The atmosphere calls for melodies, and melodies, arrangements.

Let more light pass, play on the shadows and bring out the grain of the saxophone until exposing it plaintive and tortured. To cloud the space when the time comes to meditate, to travel in the imaginary landscapes captured at the wide-angle. Take your whole body or only your soul.

Reed and voice pass the relay. After the notes, the words spring, brutally expelled, or slowly lying on melodies infused with melancholy. Dominant hue of the album, diffused in places, dominant to others, it infiltrates the scores, lives instruments and singing to dress the whole of an atmospheric dimension.

Composer of music for films, contemporary art exhibitions or video art installations, Oan Kim also practices the art of photography. He who dresses of his compositions already existing images creates, with Oan Kim & The Dirty Jazz, a music on which it will be up to each one to pose his own images...