Never Right Looks Just Right
May 19, 2008 – 10:23 amInteresting looking show coming up on Saturday (May 24) at club Bowie featuring three shoegazing bands — Lobotomy, Bulssazo and Bulgilhan Joeum. The show is the eighth Never Right show… although I must admit I have no idea what the Never Right thing is all about.
If you have not heard of Bowie, it is in the space space Aura used to be, halfway between Shinchon and Hongdae, near the Sanullim theater and the bridge of the railway tracks (or what used to be the railway tracks).
As for the bands, Bulssazo is one of the most Sigur Ros-like groups I know in Korea, although I can not imagine Sigur Ros naming their songs “The Light Shoegaze” or “Too Big to Fuck.” At first, Bulssazo seems like a rather surprising choice for a Pastel Music band (Pastel is usually more commercial and melodious), but like Pastel’s other artists, Bulssazo has a light and almost delicate quality, despite their very cool wall of noise. Great interview with Bulssazo at KOA Zine, btw.
Bulgilhan Jeoum (otherwise known as Master Musik) is associated with the Balloon and Needle noise label (collective? not sure about the best descriptor) and is the most aggressive and cacophonic of the three bands. At least that is what I have seen of them online and in the past. Lots of feedband and smashing things.
I do not know much about the band Lobotomy — except that they have a Myspace page and a song called “Hong Sang Soo.” Having a shoegazing band with a song about Korea’s famous shoegazing director earns big points from me (especially a song that reminds me so much of “Bela Lugosi’s Dead”).
Btw, if you are interested in Korea’s experimental electronic scene, you can download the songs from four Balloon and Needle CDs here (the bottom four disks on the list are available for download… I like BNN 1 the most).