Recordings

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Kim's best known KOMUNGO CD and LIVING TONES CD explore her masterful skill and eclectic sensibility to the music.

KOMUNGO
Selection of Jin Hi Kim's solo komungo and electric komungo improvisations with Guest Artists Shonosuke Okura (Japan), Kongarol Ondar (Tuva) and Kang Kwon Soon (Korea) in Kim's compositions.
 Komungo Meditation
 Saturn's Moons
O.O. DISCS #70, USA (2001) and Seoul Records SRCD-1470, Korea (2001)

LIVING TONES
Selection of Jin Hi Kim's bi-cultural compositions: performed by five Korean music masters from the Korean Performing Arts Center including National Living Treasure, Chung Jae-Guk (piri), Hong Jong Jin (daegum) and Thomas Buckner (baritone), Joseph Celli (oboe), Robert Dick (flute), Jin Hi Kim and Sirius String Quartet.
 Nong Rock
O.O. DISCS #24, USA (1995) and Seoul Records SRCD-1327, Korea (1996)


The following CDs document Kim's wide array of komungo free improvisations with internationally renown musicians.

Peter Kowald’s Global Village & Jin Hi Kim
Free Elephant 001, Germany (2004)

Synergetics-Phonomanie III
Evan Parker with Jin Hi Kim, George Lewis, Thebe Lipere, Carlo Mariani, Sainkho Namchylak, Walter Prati, Marco "Bill" Vecchi and Motoharu Yoshizawa.
LEO Records LR 239/240, London, England (1996)

DUOS
Fredy Studer with Jin Hi Kim.
For 4 EARS Records 1034, Switzerland (1999)

KOMUNGO AROUND THE WORLD
Kim duos with Adam Plack (didgeridoo), Mor Thiam (djembi), Rahul Sariputura (sitar), Hideaki Kuribayashi (koto).
 Frets Crossing Frets
 And It Goes By
Seoul Records SRCD-1234, Korea (1995)

KOMUNGUITAR
Kim duos with guitarists Derek Bailey, Eugene Chadbourne, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser, and David First.
 Howdy Partner
Nonsequitur/What Next? WN0012, USA (1994)

NO WORLD IMPROVISATIONS
Jin Hi Kim (komungo and changgo) with Joseph Celli (oboe, Indian mukhaveena).
 Komukha
O.O. DISCS #3, USA (1990) and Warner Music Korea WEA 9031-75410-2, Korea (1992)

NO WORLD (TRIO) IMPROVISATIONS
Jin Hi Kim and Joseph Celli with Shelley Hirsch, Malcolm Goldstein, Alvin Curran, Adam Plack, and Mor Thiam.
O.O.DISCS #6, USA (1992)

SARGENG
Jin Hi Kim with Elliott Sharp & Henry Kaiser.
EarRational ECD1014, Germany (1991)

CIRCLE OF FIRE
Asian American Jazz: Jin Hi Kim, Mark Izu, James Newton, Lewis Jordan and Anthony Brown
AsianImprov Records 0009, USA (1992)


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