Blood Quartet & DongYang Gozupa - Terra Ignota (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Several stories of the musical underground coexist in the Blood Quartet, another miracle of improvisational freedom that occasionally emerges in Barcelona. "For me, the best thing is to share and experience the underground scene, feeling like I'm part of a community," says Kike Bela, founder of the Blood Quartet along with trumpeter and guitarist Mark Cunningham and guitarist Lluís Rueda, completed by drummer Carles Esteban. This collective heartbeat reaches ten years of existence and is celebrated with the release of an album, the premiere of a short documentary at the In-Edit Festival, and a concert-party at Casa Montjuïc this Saturday, October 18th at 8 p.m.

The album is titled Unknown land (Foehn, 2025), and is the discographic embodiment of collaboration with the South Korean group Dongyang GozupaIt was a collision of different sonic personalities: that of Blood Quartet, more closely related to No Wave, hardcore, and free jazz; that of Dongyang Gozupa, connected to progressive rock and traditional Korean music. "Listening to their records, we didn't find a clear common ground, but when we started playing, we immediately connected," Bela recalls. It was a "risky" initiative by Fabra i Coats, they say, because the two groups hadn't met beforehand. In September 2023, they played together at Gwanghwamun Square in Seoul, as part of the Korean festival Seoul Music Week. A year later, they met at Fabra i Coats to play, improvise, and rehearse for the concerts they would perform at the Mercado de Música Viva in Vic and at BAM, with Pau Rodríguez, from Za!, on drums. And now the album and the short film, also titled "The Last Days of the Year," arrive. Unknown land, directed by Pere Sala, which documents the meeting.

Dongyang Gozupa
Jang Do Hyuk: percussión
Yun Eun Hwa: yanggeum (Korean dulcimer)
Ham Min Hwi: bass

Blood Quartet
Mark Cunningham: trumpet and guitar
Lluís Rueda: guitar
Kike Bela: bass, synth
Pau Rodríguez: drums and percussion

Tracklist:
01 Haze
02 Fuego Fatuo
03 Rare Doom
04 Cycle
05 Seoul groove
06 Dragon Tree
07 37th Parallel


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