Oan Kim and the Dirty Jazz

Oan Kim, the revelation that transcends jazz. Oan Kim is a French Korean awarded saxophonist, filmmaker and photographer.

As a film director, he recently won awards for his documentary about his father: the famous Korean painter Kim Tschang-Yeul (Silver Horn prize in Poland and the Emerging Documentary Filmmaker Award at the DMZ International Festival in Korea).

As a musician, experienced with numerous bands (Film Noir, Chinese Army), it was during lockdown that he composed and recorded his first solo album, Oan Kim and the Dirty Jazz.

This project immediately got the attention of Jean- Philippe Allard through Artwork Records, a new label created with [PIAS].

Oan Kim is a multi-faceted contemporary artist, as comfortable in galleries as in concert halls, who plays a unique music beyond the boundaries of jazz. 

Oan Kim has been described in the French media as “The missing link between Portishead and Che Baker.”