{"id":43225,"date":"2018-05-17T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43225"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:12:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:12:51","slug":"dire-straits-sultans-of-swing-gayageum-ver-by-luna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/05\/17\/dire-straits-sultans-of-swing-gayageum-ver-by-luna\/","title":{"rendered":"Dire Straits &#8211; &#8220;Sultans Of Swing&#8221; <em>Gayageum<\/em> ver. by Luna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KFiyZB5ucgo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Luna Lee<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on Aug 17, 2016<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udiscovermusic.com\/news\/dire-straits-fans-youve-never-heard-sultans-swing-like\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>uDiscover Music<\/em><\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re indebted to the <em>Open Culture<\/em> website for bringing to our attention the work of the Korean musician Luna Lee. She performs Western music on the <em>gayageum<\/em>, a traditional 12-stringed instrument from Korea that\u2019s something like a zither. Dating from the 6th century, it\u2019s from the same family as the <em>guzheng<\/em> from China and the <em>koto<\/em> from Japan. One of her remakes will be particularly fascinating to Dire Straits fans.<\/p>\n<p>Luna\u2019s clip of her performance of the band\u2019s early, classic Mark Knopfler composition &#8220;Sultans Of Swing&#8221;, nimbly performed on the aforementioned <em>gayageum<\/em>, already has some two million views. It may be hard to imagine a Korean-Greek-sounding instrumental version of this enduring tune, but here it is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luna Lee Published on Aug 17, 2016 H\/T to uDiscover Music for the link. We\u2019re indebted to the Open Culture website for bringing to our attention the work of the Korean musician Luna Lee. She performs Western music on the gayageum, a traditional 12-stringed instrument from Korea that\u2019s something like a zither. Dating from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1209,279,200],"class_list":["post-43225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-direstraits","tag-korea","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bfb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43226,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43225\/revisions\/43226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}