Eyvind Kang biography, Eyvind Kang discography
He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland.Kang's work is difficult to classify, but can broadly be seen as a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences.In addition, he has been a guest musician on many albums, including Bill Frisell's Quartet (1996) and 858 Quartet with music written by Frisell based on the paintings of the German artist Gerhard Richter, Secret Chiefs 3's Book M and playing the viola on five of Laura Veirs' albums."Nade", the meaning of which Kang is not willing to disclose.In June 2006, Trey Spruance, of the Secret Chiefs 3, announced a new Evyind Kang seven inch record to be released on his record label, Web of Mimicry.The record has yet to surface."La Double Absence" (2007)
Channeling Picasso by Craig James Green.This page was last modified on 24 April 2008, at 19:34.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.Are you sure you want to block this user?Table, Td body, div, p, strong, td, .That's a pitiful attempt to capture in words what is going on in this absolutely astounding album, certainly a landmark, a watershed in the history of recorded music.Kang has written some absolutely mesmeric compositions featuring all of the styles noted in the first paragraph, which are then arranged and played in a most compelling and beguiling manner.Certainly the inclusion of such noted sound manipulators as Patton, Schiller, and Martine contribute greatly to the sweep and grandeur of the musical palette.But perhaps the most salient fact about this disc is that it is a live recording, albeit, thankfully, with none of the annoying audience interruptions that all too frequently accompany such undertakings.Saturday 5 August 9pm
Eyvind Kang's 'Athlantis'
A new composition for an 8 piece ensemble.I'm a fan of your music and playing!This could be an attempt to steal your username and password.Do you wish to continue your form submission?"At Cornish college I went to talks by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Toru Takemitsu, which made a strong impression.Rajam in Mumbai, which really changed the way I heard music.Bill Frisell and Secret Chiefs, and created string arrangements for a lot of other artists, Laurie Anderson, Blonde Redhead, Laura Veirs, the Stares, and many more.It's great to collaborate with musicians, to see how it works, from different points of view, how it sounds, how they do it, what one listens to in sound.At the same time, when the thought of music appears, I bring it out.Surprisingly, it was a very small book, sort of like those moleskin notebooks that people carry around these days.This video will appear on your blog shortly.Thank you for sharing this video!Please login to add to favorites.Please login to add to your playlists.Change the value of a comment by clicking on a thumb."Marriage of Days" from album Virginal Co Ordin...He collaborated to Doghead (1996), Mount Analog (1997)
and several established rock bands (such as the
Sun City Girls),
and released a second album,
Sweetness Of Sickness (Rabid Dog, 1996).Kang depicts each chapter of the journey using a different style of music, jumping from
rock to ethnic and from new age to classical music.Violinista americano ma con origini coreane, Eyvind Kang debutta con il single Driftwood And Dreams (1995) e quindi la sua prima serie di composizioni intitolata "NADE", 7 NADEs (Tzadik, 1996).Bill Frisell Quartet ha icrementato la sua fama.Eyvind Kang
Interview by Efrén del Valle(December 2004)
Perfect Sound Forever: Mike Patton's Ipecac recently reissued 2003's Virginal Co Ordinates.Eyvind Kang: Virginal is quite different from my other recorded works, in the sense that it was mostly done as a live recording with all the musicians from the playground ensemble.It was a commission, wasn't it?Massimo Simonini contacted me and brought up the idea.It turned into a nice combination of people, and some friendships were born over there.PSF: What were the inspirations for Virginal?He was my teacher at one time, and he taught that music is essentially a healing force, so in this work I honored that teaching.That's another reason for the uplifting feeling: there was some musical concept of prayers involved.Most of the composing was freestyle, but the main musical preoccupations I was into at that time were the concept of harmonic purities, manifestation of other tones from combinations of notes, basically scientific concepts about sound that are often neglected in the art of playing acoustic instruments.Bologna, like Johannes Kepler and his book Harmonia Mundi.They had photographs of certain architectures in towns like Prague, Bologna, Santiago de Compostela, which are known as "the devil's triangle" due to their former patronage for these arts.Compositionally, there was a lot of latitude for the players to make decisions regarding the form of the pieces.So there was a lot of chaos, talking and playing at the same time, explaining and questioning my concepts.In alchemy, one of the main steps is to descend into the chaos, called "nigredo," and then to let a kind of order manifest itself from that chaos.Nazis, and it seemed to me related in some way with our musical work, not only in the physical proximity and temporal sequence, but also conceptually.At the riot I met some people who had been in the audience of our concert the night previous, and I just asked them, why not just let the Nazis meet, why do you have to come with baseball bats to try to stop them?Why not let them expose themselves, see if their ideas are shit, or if they have some good ideas in some way.Those people responded that my thinking was too American for them, that they were sort of honor bound to try to shut these people down.But when I mentioned that I was from Seattle, they were happy because we had a riot there not long ago and stopped an important meeting of the World Trade Organization for a day or two.PSF: Why did it take so long for the project to be released?The Story of Iceland also made me think of them, at least in the sense of developing a piece using the minimum amount of elements and, of course, the repeating patterns.Like virtually all dance music in the world in fact, from all eras.Dagar it might be a different story, but now I am also learning sound, and exploring sound, and I am opening it to other listeners for them to join.We have lost so much in music, so much compared to what they know in Indian music theory, or in an ancient text like Plato's Timaeus, or even in a composer like Hildegard.Those are some of the roots.In my opinion we have to look into these matters.PSF: I hadn't thought about Virginal as related to alchemy, but the concept did come to mind when listening to Theater of Mineral NADEs, mainly because of the obvious connections to Middle Ages folk music.So many musical instruments like lute and violin were made and designed codified for the first time, and a theory of tuning adapted from the Pythagorean circle of fifths, tempered for the apparent purpose of harmonic modulations (which was an impossible task).Where did it come from according to history?Since there are more melodies than people to sing them, the people can never know the history of their own music, so I think that an individual's intuition is basically enough for this kind of music.But it takes a lot of devotion and sacrifice, like a Sardinian guy who is trying to learn the "launedas" hiding out at a party, in a closet, to hear the secret music.EK: The actual compositions are mostly improvised.Actually, at that time I was beginning to travel a lot, through Europe and to India and North Africa, and I used to get a lot of tapes and CDs, and sort them together in compilation tapes mostly for gifts to my friends.Then I tried to make the album flow like the tapes, from one mood to another.EK: I made the composition in India, while standing in about a foot of water in the Indian Ocean, just looking at the moon.Ayanamsha" is a measure of the difference in the positions of the stars according to Indian and Western astrology.EK: Yes, the whole thing has improvisation.Rajam in Bombay, I was looking for a way that I could trust, to find more structures to follow within an improvisation.Conversely, all music is improvised, it is just a concept.Even if the notes are written down, the resonance of meanings are still associated by the musician and listener in an improvisational way.EK: Well, I went to India to study with a great violinist Dr.Her style is called Gayaki Ang.Michael White, and he has a lot of experience in music and in life to say the least.Kala Ramnath, Bill Frisell, Amir Koushkani, the musicians who I really respect, are all trying to learn.Neti" concept related to the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali?Neti Band would be Eyvind Kang alone, but an Eyvind Kang who has parted with all the elements that were "part of him" but were not his actual "he", including ego, wishes, ambitions...Eyvind Kang at its purest?The past couple years, I'm working more on moments that are not really repetitive at all, but more minimal.EK: Total improvisation is more painful to me, that is why I didn't like it at all.Neti music, to pronounce, through actions, I am creating music Now.Conlon Nancarrow, I was thinking of the availability of his works, and how underappreciated they are, about how it's left to high art society people to preserve his pieces, when actually the works are also based in popular music.So to create music with that kind of sound is quite natural, I would think, for a composer.But there is a distinction to be made, between the intent and the function of different pieces.White actors painted their faces black and acted like (parodies of) black people, but were soon replaced after the "emancipation" of the black "slaves" by black actors who imitated the white actors, who had been imitating black people as they saw them.According to Baraka, that was the birth of the black music tradition called blues, and in a way "blues" is the start of American popular music in a commercial sense.There are many other cultures to be represented; the whole music business these days is like Vaudeville upon Vaudeville.Instead of just colonizing other cultures, they represent them back to themselves in a Vaudeville form.Europe, but less and less over time.EK: There's some different things there.Think about a band like Las Grecas, who I really love, or the whole concept of "rock gitano" (there's a Spanish band I'm thinking of but I forgot their name right now...LP with their name stamped in a brick of hash!On a larger picture, there's the side of flamenco repertoire called "cantos de ida y vuelta" which are like tangos and rhumbas and beats that came back from the occupied colonies with a different feeling.Jean Baudrillard that is quite helpful about these matters, it is called Simulations and Simulacra.PSF: The people here have grown quite skeptical about what's happening in the world due to the American administration's foreign (and domestic) policy.EK: I consider what is happening as a part of the colonial mentality of Europe (or as Lou Harrison would say, "Northwest Asia") taken to another level.Americans celebrate Christopher Columbus day every year: when the great navigator was governor of Hispaniola (now Haiti) he was responsible for the deaths of 8 million Taino people.American schoolchildren learn about him as a sort of saint.USA made about 800 treaties with those indigenous nations that were already here on this continent, and broke every single one of those, why should other nations in the world be surprised that they broke recent treaties like Kyoto, etc.?September 11th happened when I was in Brooklyn hanging out with some friends.During that time we kept going up to the roof to watch the buildings falling down and people looking like bhutto dancers covered in white powder walking around.Eyvind Kang
To hear Eyvind Kang play violin is a powerful
experience.They also reveal a deep understanding
of classical techniques, and a positively beautiful sense of plucking and
bowing his instrument.
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