Park Jiha

Park Jiha is a master of creating conceptual soundscapes, and ‘All Living Things’ is humbling, enchanting and sometimes quietly alarming in the starkness of its structure. It is a beautiful, inimitable creation.

A BBC Radio 3 Late Junction session from 2020 featuring Korean multi-instrumentalist Park Jiha and writer and performer Roy Claire Potter is to be released on Cafe OTO’s in house label OTOROKU.

Philos, the new album from Park Jiha, creates a world not quite at ease with itself, calling for pauses and spaces to be moments of reflection, not for inaction. In this sense, it possesses a more substantial spirituality and timelessness, creating a distinct soundworld that is both heavy with memory and possibility.

Communion is an excellent solo debut by an artist who is bringing the rich tradition of Korean folk music into the modern age. Stark, hypnotic, minimalist, full of rich hidden beauty.