Biography
Chang Wording Girl are a South Korean 3 piece - regularly augmented by guest performers - who produce what they refer to as 'guitar action music'. The band formed in 2001 whilst Kim Kyung-Soon, Serendipity Jin-Ho and Mun Yong-Chik were studying in Seoul. Originally they were strongly connected with the 'chong-um' scene but then branched out into a wider groove by including aspects of contemporary electronica and krautrock into their sound.
In 2005 they produced the sprawling and intricate free-wave classic Neon Eon which was originally released on Tagmonkey Recording Corporation and later licensed to Brooklyn's Metal Postcard.
Tom Ridge in The Wire magazine said of Neon Eon:-
"Including guitar-generated pulses and drones and sudden jumps in volume and intensity, Neon Eon presents an uncompromising sound, a single piece of music that shifts restlessly between moods and arrangements for more than 20 minutes, never settling into anything resembling a comfortable groove, but opting for an episodic series of compressed but intense tableaux.
Amid the processed fuzziness, grit and aural clutter, there are hints at melody, small snippets of twanging guitar, suggestive of a fleeting, ghostlike harmony struggling to be heard. The vocals are deadpan, robotic narratives, competing with the clamour of the group, adding one more layer to this monumental but mutable sound sculpture."
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