Your North Korean accordion quintet ’80s pop cover for the day
Here’s the description from YouTube: a-ha’s eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101). Traavik is also ...
Here's the description from YouTube:
Here’s the description from YouTube:
a-ha’s eternal pop evergreen performed by young accordeon players from Kum Song School, Pyongyang, North Korea. Part of multi-genre project THE PROMISED LAND by director and artist Morten Traavik, opening at the international arts and culture festival Barents Spektakel in Kirkenes, Norway February 8-12, 2012 (Juche 101).
Traavik is also the guy behind the "Miss Landmine" pageants held in Angola and Cambodia, which we wrote about back in 2008.
Hat tip: FP contributor Andrew MacGregor Marshall on Twitter
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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