Dabang Band — Pig Over Seoul (2002)
Warning: 진정한 한국 외국인 만든 인디록 이다!
Produced in my first year in the band, and also during my first year in South Korea, this album is no longer available in traditional media… apparently the CDs have all sold out. Therefore, I’ve got the full album online for anyone who wants to download and listen and enjoy. I plan on adding a subpage all in Korean, offering it for download (or perhaps offering a Bittorrent for the album), and when I do, I’ll add cover and interior art, but for now, it’s just the tracks.
Please note that we has some help from guests on this album: the band personnel is the same as above, but the following are added:Hyo Sang Yoon plays slide guitar on Track #10, and Dae Gwi Hwang plays guitar on track #9. In addition, that’s me narrating one of my poems on Track #8. I had a dreadful flu that day and my voice doesn’t really sound like that most of the time. The poem, incidentally, was published in Matrix Magazine, out of Montreal, in issue 59, back in 2001.
Track 1. RSL
Track 2. Spinning reel
Track 3. Late afternoon grass
Track 4. Looking for Mr. X
Track 5. Vega
Track 6. Boat Song (뱃 노래)
Track 7. Dancing fool
Track 8. Shivji and the ecstasy of butter and fire
Track 9. Sex & electronics
Track 10. Mars
Track 11. Sea shanty
The album was in part funded by the appearance we made at the Ssamzie Sori Festival in 2002. A couple of videos of that performance have turned up, and I’ve posted them to my main Music page.
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Recently Published Stories
- "The Country of the Young." Interzone 219 (Dec. 2008).
- "Dhuluma No More," read by David Munger. Podcast by Starship Sofa. (5 November 2008.)
- "Wonjjang and the Madman of Pyongyang," available in the annual Canadian SF anthology Tesseracts Twelve, edited by Claude Lalumière.
- "Dhuluma No More." Asimov's SF October/November 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition of the magazine available here.)
- "Lester Young and the Jupiter's Moons' Blues." Asimov's SF, July 2008. (Fictionwise eMagazine edition available here.)- "Pahwakhe" -- Fantasy magazine, 21 January 2008. Or listen to the Podcastle Podcast here (from 2 May 2008)!
- "The Egan Thief" -- Flurb #4, Fall/Winter 2007.
- "Junk" -- Nature, Vol 448: 2 August, 2007. (PDF also available.) -
Recent Articles
- "How Candle Girl and V Took on 2MB." Clarkesworld, October 2008.
- XY column installment: Why Are Women More Religious? at Cahoots Magazine. (Fall 2008)- "Fending Off Discontentment." The Korea Herald, 25 September 2008.
- "Another Undiscovered Country: An Analysis of the Effects of Culture on the Reception and Adoption of the Science Fiction Genre in South Korea Through The Examination of 21st Century Korean SF Cinema." (Alt. link for those without Hangeul on their PCs.) Presented at the 4th International Congress of Korean Studies.
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- "Planet Crazy" in Cahoots Magazine, Spring 2008. -
Grab Some Music
Korean indie rock with lost saxophone in tow:
- Product by Dabang Band (2004)
- Pig Over Seoul by Dabang Band (2002)Live acoustic/electronic ambient chillout:
- Live 1998 by ApocryphaCrusty, weird modern classical student compositions: - an assortment of compositions I wrote as an undergrad from 1995-1996.
If you're one of those people who is into owning the physical CD, Dabang Band's 2nd album, Product:
... is still available via YesAsia. I won't see a cent either way, but it's a pretty nice, ahem, product.
