Salamanda is a Seoul, South Korea based Leftfield ambient electronic music duo of Uman Sala & Yetsuby Manda, Their style is primarily 20th Century minimalism.
ashbalkum was written during the surrealist landscape of Covid 2021 settling in somewhere between a sweet dream & a beautiful nightmare. The music presents the juxtaposition of playful tranquility clashing with our tumultuous times. At once both instantly intimate & static while constantly changing, like moving while standing still. narrowly avoiding the pressures of our pre-apocalyptic world looming just overhead.
The duo play with all the tones of the natural world around us, using music & voice as individual instruments for layered choruses of hypnogogic pop sounds in timeless film scores & dance-club rave-ups. There are serpentine reggaeton drum patterns with its driving dembrow rhythms weaving itself with Dub's expansive spacial awareness,
The title "ashbalkum" stems from a Korean phrase for the realization that what you've been experiencing as "reality" is actually a dream. It describes this music perfectly.
Overdose
Melting Hazard
Rumble Bumble
Mad Cat Party featuring Ringo the Cat
Living Hazard
Coconut Warrior
Hard Luck Story
Stem
Kiddo Caterpillar
Catching Tails
bonus track (on Japanese release) -
Cold Water Manufacture
The fix is in,
NØ
Ashbalkum
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