The Jeonju Zoo by Dabang Band by Gord Sellar

One of two songs originally written by me on the Dabang Band album "Product" (2004), featuring me on tenor sax.

This song was inspired by the constant questioning I received after moving to Jeonju City, South Korea, about whether I'd gone yet to see "The Jeonju Jew"... or that's what I thought people were asking me. Finally I figured out that they were mispronouncing "Zoo" because there is no "Z" sound in Korean. By all accounts at the time, the zoo really was a dire place, though the elephant without a trunk is the only example taken from real life. (The wolf lacking a lower jaw was actually a riff on line from a poem by <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/09/meet-the-readers-oana-avasilichoaei.html">Oana Avasilichioaei</a> that I read when we were in a short-lived crit group together.)

The full album <a href="http://www.gordsellar.com/music/">can be downloaded here.</a>