Silk Road by Hwang Byung-Ki: Korean Traditional 12 String Zither Gayageum Meditation Relax Healing Yoga Moods Music CD

*Listen to samples in our store. *This album features original pieces composed in 1970’s. The discovery of Persian wine glass with their mysterious translucence in an old Shilla Kingdom (57 BC-668 AD) tomb prompted this composition. The pieces present a melody of mystical beauty on subtly changing rhythms portraying the Shilla fantasy of a remote west symbolizing the beautiful Silk Road. Synonymous in Korea with music pleasing to both the ear and the mind is the Gayagum music of Hwang Byung-Ki. He is a leading composer, performer, and scholar of Korean traditional music. He has toured widely around the world since 1964, performing both traditional pieces and his own compositions in major venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Paris’ Musee Guimet. His best-known works feature the twelve-string zither, Gayageum, on which he is a renowned performer. Ranging in style from the evocation of traditional genres to avant-garde experimentation, a selection of these pieces is available on a series of five albums. He has also developed and taught his own unique version of Sanjo, the traditional extended solo music, for Gayageum.