Albums
Songs of the Forest Calm (2024)
Hyelim Kim: daegeum/sogeum/danso
Kasper Staub: keyboards/guitar
Torben Westergaard: bass
In this unique collaboration featuring virtuoso Korean daegeum flute performer Hyelim Kim, and Danish jazz instrumentalists Kasper Staub and Torben Westergaard, we are led through a wondrous forest of folk melodies from two nations, drawing inspiration from their connection with nature and the spiritual and stylistic tendrils that bind them across continents. We embark on a journey through the rich cultural tapestry of Denmark and Korea, where each melody carries echoes of tradition, history and the timeless beauty of nature.
Sensitive to Light (2023)
MARK SANDERS
Drums/Percussion
HYELIM KIM
Daegeum
JOHN EDWARDS
Double Bass
released February 6, 2023
Pungryu (2021)
This album presents traditional Korean repertoire, which is predominantly played on the daegeum.
Out of time (2018)
The album ‘Out of Time’ is a collaboration of the taegŭm (Korean flute) player, Hyelim Kim and Australian jazz percussionist Simon Barker. In the album Kim has tried to show the infinite possibilities of Korean traditional music conveyed through the taegŭmand the numerous aspects of Korean music that corresponds to Simon’s jazz language. Barker creates a polyphony of rhythms, and polyphonic rhythms are one of the significant characteristics of Korean rhythms. His juxtaposition of different Korean rhythmic structures, which traditionally would never be combined together, is one of the ways that he developed his improvisation. Consequently, the instruments and rhythmic patterns sound familiar to Koreans and non-Koreans alike but in actual performance they come across as fresh because of the rearrangement of existing materials.
한국 전통 음악 연주자 김혜림은 음반‘Out of Time’을 통해 새로운 문화와 소통하는 도구로서의 대금을 보여주고자 한다. 대금은 선율, 음색, 구조에 있어서 무한한 가능성을 가진 우리 고유의 전통 악기이다. 본 음반은 전통음악의 가능성을 재즈의 열린 구조에 적용해본 작품이다. 특히 재즈 퍼커션을 연주한 사이먼 바커는 한국 전통 음악에 대한 깊은 이해를 재즈 언어로 재해석 하는데 탁월한 능력을 보여주었다. 이번 음반은 재즈와 한국 음악의 문화적 교감 뿐만 아니라 두 연주자의 예술적 세계를 가깝게 느낄 수 있는 기회를 제공할 것이다.
Transition (2017)
‘Transition’ presents a representative repertoire of Korean traditional music, Gwanak Youngsanhoe-sang. Gwanak Youngsanhyeosang, a predominantly wind instrumental music, is characterised by the majestic tones of wind instruments and is often used as a dance accompaniment for court entertainers.
한국 전통악기 대금으로 세계에서 주목받는 젊은국악인 김혜림은 그의 세 번째 음반 '연음'으로 한국 전통 음악의 대표적인 레퍼토리인 '관악영산회상'을 선보인다. 관악이 주로 되는 관악영산회상은 관악기의 웅장한 음색이 주를 이루어 궁중 연희를 위한 무용반주에 주로 사용된다. 관악영상회상은 따라서 대나무 관악기가 주가 되는 연주라고 해서 대(대나무) 풍류, 삼현육각이 주가 된다고 해서 삼현 영산회상이라고도 하며 다른 이름으로 표정만방지곡 이라고 한다. 이번 음반에는 국립국악원 소속 김철 (피리), 안성일 (장구) 그리고 서울시국악관현악단 소속 김현희 (해금)가 함께하였다.
ECLECTIC (2016)
Korean traditional flute(taegum) player Hyelim Kim presents a musical collaboration between Korea and Britain. In a concert with British composer/pianist Steve Beresford and German cellist Ute Kanngiesser that was fully improvised live, they displayed the vibrance and diversity of the contemporary music scene in these two countries. This recording was made on 3rd November 2016 at the i'Klectik Art Lab, London.
Nim (2013)
This is my first recording, reflecting my aim to open new possibilities for thetaegŭm. The album includes two pieces written by Korean composer Taesŏng Kim and developed in collaboration with musicians from different musical cultures - ‘Ch’ŏng’ for taegŭm and piano, and ‘Nim’ for taegŭm and string quartet - along with my own composition ‘Pochagi’, all supplemented by a more familiar repertory. The new works featured stem from the roots of tradition, so that representative old pieces for the taegŭm are joined by theL new, demonstrating how every source of creativity is founded on history.
Featured in
Heaven to Earth: Border House by Bruce Crossman (2021)
Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Timothy Phillips (percussion), Anna Fraser (soprano), Claire Edwardes (percussion), Linda Yim (piano), Chiu Tan Ching guzheng, Hyelim Kim (taegŭm) and Yi Ji-young (gayageum), Ian Stevenson (sound design), Kate Fagan (poetry), Lindy Li Mark (translations)
WITHIN YOU IS A WORLD OF SPRING by Alice Zawadz
ki (2019)
"An awestruck hymn to nature that masters all manner of styles."
★★★★ (contemporary album of the month)
The Guardian
Expect the Unexpected
Notes Inegales ( 2017)
Notes Inégales for Bands II & III
Hyelim Kim taegŭm flute
Jackie Shave violin
Torbjörn Hultmark trumpet
Joel Bell guitar
Ben Markland bass
Simon Limbrick drums and percussion
Martin Butler piano
Rivers and Streams by Lubomyr Melnyk
(2015)
Amorphous, ever-changing, Lubomyr as performer becomes subsumed into the natural ebb and flow of the keys as the album drifts between nascent upstream trickles and deeply reflective passages through winding river valleys. The album reaches its climax in The Amazon, a 20-minute piece dedicated to the world’s largest river. Raths invited Korean flautist Hyelim Kim to guest on the first part, before Lubomyr closes the album with cascades of arpeggio figures, stretching across the breadth of the keyboard with rapid virtuosity.