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March 31, 2006
The folk music of the machine age
Kim Chul-woong defected from North Korea following a life-changing experience in a Moscow cafe... his first exposure to jazz. But not just any jazz (via Harry's Place).
"I asked the cafe owner what kind of music that was, and he replied it was `A Comme Amour' by pop, classical and jazz pianist Richard Clayderman. It was too good, and that began to change my life".
This is, as Mick Hartley observes, "a chilling insight into the cultural desert that is North Korea."
Posted by Ghost of a flea at March 31, 2006 09:24 AM
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