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Oan Kim

OAN KIM is a Korean-French saxophonist, singer, composer, filmmaker and photographer. At the age of 5, his mother put him on the violin (it was that or the cello), which he played for the next 15 years. As a teenager, he developed a passion for jazz and took up the alto saxophone, then the tenor, which he perfected under Julien Loureau. Convinced that he also had to be a good pianist to become a composer, he studied jazz piano at the Bill Evans Piano Academy under Samy Abenhaïm and Philippe Le Barrelec. He became fascinated by contemporary music, followed Pierre Boulez's lectures at the Collège de France, studied the scores of Berio, Nono, Ferneyhough, Xenakis, Cage, and frequently attended concerts and lectures at the IRCAM contemporary music center. At the same time, he studied classical composition at the CSNM in Paris, studying harmony, orchestration, counterpoint, fugue, and also classical Indian music. Since then he has composed music for the audiovisual industry (documentary and television) and for contemporary art, collaborating regularly with the artist Jungwan Bae and the photographers of the MYOP agency. Enthused by the indie scene, he decided to participate in it and created the rock band Film Noir (releasing one album with Le Son du Maquis), then the electro-rock duo Chinese Army (releasing three EPs on the label Balades Sonores and Believe Digital) that he formed with the guitarist Benoît Perraudeau

Benjamin Herman, Janning Trumann, Ruth Goller, Guido Spannocchi & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 2, 2024

A playlist in which edgy and calm take turns, but never at the expense of the surprise factor.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Benjamin Herman “Hornin' Out" Nostalgia Blitz (Dox) 0:16 Oan Kim “Caravane Mélancolique" Oan Kim & the Dirty Jazz (Artwork) 3:24 Host ...

A Few More of My Favorite 2022 Jazz Things, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 28, 2023

As this is our last show in 2022, our playlist focus on the songs we've loved the most in the last six months of what was an incredibly prolific year for jazz. Here's to a new year that hopefully will bring us much great music as 2022 did!Happy listening... and a happy new year!

Oan Kim & The Dirty Jazz

By Oan Kim

Label: Oan Kim
Released: 2022
Track listing: Whispers; Agony; Mambo; Symphony for the Lost at Sea; Wong Kar Why; Fight Club; Fuzzy Landscape; The Interzone; The Judge; Smoking Gun; Thelonious; Quintet; Funeral Waltz; The Lonesome Path.

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2022

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 29, 2022

The depth and range of the music that jazz players have put on record in 2022 are so big that summarizing this “year in jazz" by selecting only ten albums feels akin to taking the photo of a breath-taking landscape with an ultra-low resolution camera... Ten years from now, how is one supposed to understand how ...

Oan Kim Releases Debut Album ‘Oan Kim & The Dirty Jazz’

March 24, 2022

Fusing together his different musical influences, Oan Kim takes us on a journey of stylistic exploration with his new album Oan Kim & The Dirty Jazz. The former Film Noir and Chinese Army members’ new direction is jazzier and more experimental, whilst nodding to his past so far in contemporary classical music and electro rock. Oan ...