Dream of the King – single
Reviewed By Janet Mawdesley February 10, 2025
Artist – Ron Korb
Distributor: Amazon Music
Released: October 2024
Running Time: 3 mins - 2 tracks
Website: https://www.amazon.com/Dream-King-Ron-Korb/dp/B0DHLRKHBF
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In October 2024, Ron Korb released piece of music which takes you straight back to the days of the Korean Emperors of legend with stunning flute, backed with a collection of instruments that capture immediately the tradition and circumstance of ancient Korea.
Dream of the King Prelude captures this to perfection heralding the arrival of the King, is followed by the more relaxed Dream of the Kings which beckons with the timelessness of the Orient and its many layers of intrigue.
Ron Korb is a multi-award winning musician who delights in creating music with a distinct difference, frequently blending ancient and modern technics and instruments to build a series of captivating pieces which resonate and refresh. Dream of the King is no exception.
The story that inspired the music is the Korean bamboo flute creation story:
In 681, the Silla King Munmu, requested on his deathbed that his ashes be scattered in the sea where the whales live and he would become a dragon and protect Silla from foreign invasion. After he died his son King Simun had a dream where his father and his top general Kim Yu Shin told him that a bamboo flute will bring peace to everything under the sky.
When Simun awoke he sailed out to the Gomun Temple that he had made in honour of his father. On the mountain was a special stalk of bamboo which he brought back to his palace and fashioned into a flute called Manpasikjeok.
When he played this flute it called to the spirits of his father King Munmu and General Kim who had the power to calm the seas, to prevent natural disasters, to cure diseases and cause enemy armies to retreat. It became know as “A flute that calms down 10,000 waves”