A live performance at the Tower of the Juche Idea in Pyongyang:

So much of North Korea’s technology is broken or obsolete that many things are done by hand—painting the white circles on traffic cones, for example. In music, too: live bands and orchestras are used to produce faultlessly rhythmic, very synthetic-sounding accompaniment for events like the Pyongyang circus. The accordion-and-a-singer format is standard for all kinds of small ceremonies; we saw the same configuration at a model commune farm holding a ceremony to celebrate a harvest, and also at a picnic at the entrance to the DMZ (with a bass guitar too, as I recall).

(via The Rest Is Noise)