JAMBINAI: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert

The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bob Boilen, July 9, 2021 I don t think I ve ever used the word fierce to describe a Tiny Desk, but that s precisely what JAMBINAI has created in this (home) concert. The show begins in front of a massive recreation of my desk and what happens next. .. well, no spoilers here. Filmed in an immersive media art museum created by an organization known as d strict on Jeju Island, this Korean band contains multitudes. At its heart, JAMBINAI s music mixes elements of metal, noise and Korean tradition. There s fullon distorted guitar, bass and drums, but also a haegeum (a fiddlelike instrument), a piri (a type of flute), a taepyeongso (a reed instrument) and a most appropriately named instrument, a geomungo (a giant Korean zither). We also hear some