Puri | Jaryong, Shooting an Arrow

PURI has regularly appeared on numerous stages worldwide while searching for experimental sounds deeply grounded in Korean traditional music, and the present performance will attest to Puri’s continuous endeavor to fuse the particularity of Korean music with the universality of world music.
The name of the group “PURI” is derived from a Korean word that means resolving knotty and discordant elements or situations and rendering them harmonious. In this suggestive name is registered and expressed Puri’s wish to engraft Korean traditional rhythm to the rhythm of contemporary popular music as well as to that of world folk music, thereby harmonizing these seemingly disparate musical traditions.
Although initially launched as a group of professional percussionists performing works of their own creation, Puri has of late increasingly become more like a “sound group” engaged with the use of diverse sounds and musical instruments.
In Puri’s music-making, a technical aspect is considered to be of primary importance not only because Puri believers that it should demonstrate on the world market flawless techniques befitting a professional performance group, but also because the vitality of the group will of necessity wither should its technical finesse not buttress its musicality. It is the group’s firm belief at the same time, however, that it never brings any music on the stage without (re)appropriating and (trans)forming the original or traditional work anew. For playing music “(re)created” in the style of Puri alone marks the point at which the inimitable characteristics of Puri/s music are to be sought.
Puri’s root is no doubt Korean tradition. Yet Puri’s music has the power to reverberate throughout the world. Puri wishes to prove the unlimited possibilities of innovative music by making an unflinching effort to move beyond the rigid traditional repertoire toward blending diverse genres of music, and, in so doing, to let the world experience the excellence of Korean music by communicating with a wide array of talented international musicians.Won Il : Jhanggo, Piri, Buhk, Drums, Hojeok. Chorus
HAN Seung-seok : Voice, Kkwaenggwari, Changgo, Bahrah
Kim Woong-sik : Changgo, Didgeridoo, Kkwaenggwari, Buhk, Djembe, Udu, Jing, Cymbals, Chorus
Jung Jae-il : Guitars, Basses, Electronic Sounds, Chorus, Piano