Dabang Band — Product (2004)
Warning: Contains heartbreak, swimming pools, lost taxi drivers and dogs, and a figurative whale.
This is Dabang Band’s second album, done with Cavare records in Seoul, which has a bunch of great songs, including a couple of mine. (For those keeping track, “Jeonju Zoo” and “The Deep End” are my babies, though of course in their final form they’re the result of collaboration among all band members.) All tracks are performed by Dabang Band, which means Sung Hwan Jung on bass, Thai Iv on drums, and Myoung Jae Yi on guitar and vocals, as well as myself on saxophones and very occasional backing vocals. Much better backing vocals were performed by Yoon Joo Mi (of Plastic People) on tracks #5, 8, and 10.
Track 1. The Deep End
Track 2. She Married A Whale
Track 3. K’s Lament
Track 4. Got No Time
Track 5. Taxi Blues
Track 6. Sea Shanty
Track 7. Jeonju Zoo
Track 8. Delirium
Track 9. Lost My Dog
Track 10. Green Leaves
Track 11. Ba
Track 12. Outro
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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.
