"With gayaguem and geomungo zithers, the Korean duo craft soul-stirring, cinematic sounds, weaving cascades of plucked and bowed strings mesmerically through and around one another."
- Songlines (Top of the World 12/2024)
"Avant-garde zither players, Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung belong to a new generation of South Korean musicians (with Park Jiha or Jambinai) keen to inscribe their age-old traditions in the 21st century...
Even in its most radical nudity, they breathe emotion and poetry into it... Between the epic of the living and contemplation, they suspend time."
- Telerama (F)
"Dal:um manage to use their traditional instruments to deliver a new sound proposal by experimenting with a chord combination, timbres and resonances that give to their music an avant-garde feel."
- Loop (NL)
"...downright impressive and very accessible instrumental album by two simply masterful musicians."
- Rootstime
Dal:um – alongside peers Park Jiha, Jambinai and Leenalchi – are at the forefront of a new Korean music. The duo of Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung are virtuosos on two different types of traditional zithers, the gayageum and geomungo, and their music deftly navigates a plethora of contemporary influences: minimalism, experimental folk and abstract jazz. The sound of 21st century Seoul, where the boundaries of tradition are stretched and occasionally broken. Coexistence is released on tak:til, Glitterbeat’s instrumental music imprint, and home to artists such as Brìghde Chaimbeul, Širom, Jon Hassell and Park Jiha.
