Pyongyang Gold Stars: Take On Us! Pyongyang Gold Stars Play Great Popular Hits Vol 1. (Vinyl LP)
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In spring 2013, military tensions on the Korean peninsula had reached a boiling point amid escalating rhetoric between North Korea and the United Nations following Pyongyang's third nuclear test. In this tense atmosphere, a small team of Norwegian artists headed into the heart of the Hermit Kingdom to record a tribute album to international pop stars A-ha, re-interpreted by elite accordion students of Pyongyang's Kum Song (Gold Star) Music School. They made it out alive, and brought back this spectacular example of musical collaboration against all odds - and fine pop songs, too. Let a hundred a-ha-ccordions play! The General Galloping on a White Horse, Take on Me, Train of Thought (FT. Kim Jin Hui), Hunting High and Low, The Blue Sky, Living a Boy's Adventure Tale, The Sun Always Shines on T.V, And You Tell Me, Love Is Reason, I Dream Myself Alive, Here I Stand and Face the Rain, The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (A New Religion Mix)
In spring 2013, military tensions on the Korean peninsula had reached a boiling point amid escalating rhetoric between North Korea and the United Nations following Pyongyang's third nuclear test. In this tense atmosphere, a small team of Norwegian artists headed into the heart of the Hermit Kingdom to record a tribute album to international pop stars A-ha, re-interpreted by elite accordion students of Pyongyang's Kum Song (Gold Star) Music School. They made it out alive, and brought back this spectacular example of musical collaboration against all odds - and fine pop songs, too. Let a hundred a-ha-ccordions play! The General Galloping on a White Horse, Take on Me, Train of Thought (FT. Kim Jin Hui), Hunting High and Low, The Blue Sky, Living a Boy's Adventure Tale, The Sun Always Shines on T.V, And You Tell Me, Love Is Reason, I Dream Myself Alive, Here I Stand and Face the Rain, The Sun Always Shines on T.V. (A New Religion Mix)