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10-Feb-2012
by Rob Howard
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 In December 2011, Norwegian artist and film director Morten Traavik (pictured) travelled to North Korea looking for musicians to play in a forthcoming music festival. On a visit to the Kum Song School of Music in the capital Pyongyang, he met with pupils and presented them with a CD of the Norwegian pop band A-ha. http://www.accordion-space4u.com/user.aspx?user=14&item=6&id=316 Two days later, an accordion quintet of three boys and two girls surprised him with their own excellent arrangement of A-ha’s 1985 hit song ‘Take on Me’. Western pop music is little known in North Korea, and the music of A-ha was completely new to the quintet. Morten Traavik has tried hard in recent years to build a relationship with North Korean culture officials, musicians and artists, and is one of the few outsiders to attempt such boundary-crossing exhibitions and performances. |