Ashes, Pomelos, and the Sickroom

by Heejin Jang

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Juraku I'm a big fan of Heejin Jang and Edvard Munch. I figured I couldn't go wrong with this release, great sounds here. Favorite track: The Green Room.

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1.	Jealousy 05:04	buy track
2.	The Green Room 08:43	buy track
3.	Chroma Key 11:07	buy track
4.	Amore Tossico 06:45	buy track
5.	The Flesh and the Wallpaper 08:45	buy track
6.	The Tomb of the Pomelo 10:45	buy track

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An NPR Music review of Heejin Jang’s previous LP described “an apocalyptic trek through fog and rubble”, defined by an “overarching feeling… of uneasy displacement.” Her latest release, Ashes, Pomelos and the Sickroom conjures a similar sense of discomfort, this time at a more intimate scale, using found sounds, glitches and synths to explore the relationship between space, pain and the dissolution of the self.

The project, which encompasses a collaboration with visual artist Woo-na Young, is inspired by Renee Magritte's The Listening Room and Edvard Munch's The Green Room series. In the painters’ work, sickly people and unnaturally proportioned objects occupy confined spaces. In this album, Jang evokes a similar sense of confinement and malaise through intricate sound design and repetition without resolution. In her artist statement, she writes of “the sound of emotions that fill a space”, one that will soon be “suffocated by ‘deadly’ painful emotions – love, jealousy, anxiety and anger” to the point that the sufferer’s mind is eventually burned to ashes.

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released September 15, 2023

Artwork: Nayoung Woo, Heejin Jang, Miséseoul

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