"1909" by Scrabbel

music video for the song "1909" by Scrabbel. Filmed at the sutro baths in San Francisco.
This song is from Scrabbel's 2nd album and was screened at the SF Asian American Film Festival in 2006. It is about the assassination of Ito Hirobumi (former Japanese Prime Minister) by Ahn Jun Gun, a Korean Activist fighting against the Japanese colonization of Korea.
The video was shot and edited by Eugenia Chan

Category:

Music

Tags:

• scrabbel
• korea
• aislersset
• indie
• pop
• ahn
• jun
• gun
• ito
• hirobumi
• san
• francisco

[wokwithme]

Superb Video and Music!

What's the Train Footage from?

[scrabbel]

we took it from a movie about the same subject.

it's called 2009 Lost Memories. (the movie wasn't that great, but it fits the song!)

[bogart345]

Jesus, is there some law that says every indie band has to have a song about the assassination of Ito Hirobumi? Death Cab, Decemberists, Yo La Tengo, Sleater-Kinney, Malkmus, Shins, Strokes, Magnetic Fields, Hasselhoff...it's always "Hirobumi this" and "Ahn Jun Gun" that. TIRESOME.

(I quite liked it, actually)

[scrabbel]

ha ha ha

i know i'm sorry, we're jumping on the

hirobumi bandwagon

[wildhockeyTroJan]

very good song and video. was that really shot at harbin?

[scrabbel]

not sure where the train scenes were shot, cuz we 'borrowed' it from a korean movie. the other stuff was shot in san francisco

[mikeboni232]

Hauntingly beautiful. This is a tremendous sound.

[Amazonwarrior777]

The intro to this song is the best thing I have EVER heard.

[1mrnewman]

Russia had already occupied Manchuria and was about to take over Korea. Hirobumi Ito tried everything to stop Russian expansion but the Russian Tsar had nothing but contempt for Asians even reffereing to them in official documents as monkeys.Kaiser of Germany also shared these racial sentiments coinig the term 'yellow peril'. Hirobumi scored a diplomatic coup and separted Russia from European nations by bringing in Britian to their side.

[1mrnewman]

Japan wiped out Russia and did not annex Korea. Because Hirobumi Ito opposed annexation.Ito declared himself as resident general meaning he was a Korean resident. He also dressed in Korean clothes. But Korean fools assasinated him and then Korea was annexed and the position was changed to Governor general. Koreans praising Ahn Jun Gun is like African Americans praising the assasin of Lincoln. What folly!

[rlatndnsxo]

the death of this man saved millions of Eastern Asian lives.

[jcliswong]

Nice voice, nice melody. But I thought the scene you had is very Chinese. The women are dressed in cheongsam. 

[somecallmejames]

@melonbarmonster  someones a nationalist, racist pig...

[somecallmejames]

@somecallmejames I swear youtube fucks with letters, spelling... a few letters were left out of my last post... you can assume what I intended...

[somecallmejames]

@bogart345 hey, so, I couldn;t find any song by those bands that reference an jung-geun... maybe you could hel?

[somecallmejames]

@bogart345 scrabbel wasnt first? this song isnt the first to set to music his "dying" words... ? I want to know more.

[wittlesailor]

really love this band!!