From the full-length album of a-ha pop songs covered by North Korean accordeonists:  “Take On Us! Pyongyang Gold Stars Play Great Popular Hits Vol. 1,” probably the first wide Western commercial release of music from North Korea.

Performed by
PYONGYANG GOLD STARS:

Kim Chon Ryong
Hong Myong
Kim Ju Yong
Ri Se Ok
Kim Song Il
with special guest: Kim Jin Hui

All songs arranged by Kum Song Music School,
People´s Artist Mrs. IM YU SUN

Recorded by Jørgen Træen
at Kum Song Music School,
Pyongyang, D.P.R. Korea, March 2013

Produced and engineered by Jørgen Træen
with Morten Traavik at Duper, Bergen,
Norway, July 2013

Additional engineering by DJ Stian Stratocaster

Concept and artistic direction by Morten Traavik

Co-produced with the Committee for Cultural Relations
with Foreign Countries of the Democratic People´s
Republic of Korea