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Artist: | Jessika & Eyvind Kang Kenney |
Title: | Jessika & Eyvind Kang Kenney Azure VINYL LP |
Released: | 17/11/2023 |
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Format: | VINYL LP |
Country | EU/US |
Barcode: | 647581407950 |
Catalogue number: | 647581407950 |
Store location: | pre-order |
SKU: | WLF17301 |
Condition: | BRAND NEW & SEALED |
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The duo will be touring internationally around the release of this album, and the reissue of SOMA011 (Face Of The Earth) LP in late 2023 and 2024. Jessika Kenney is a prolific leading voice in the contemporary Persian, Indonesian, Gamelan, and experimental music worlds. She had performed with Alvin Lucier, Hossein Omoumi, Avey Tare and worked with the groups SUNN O))), ASVA and Wolves in The Throne Room. The Boston Globe called Kenney’s singing «pure tones that emanate not just from the center of her being but seemingly from far back in time. Eyvind Kang has studied Hindustani music for decades, and worked extensively with Bill Frisell and John Zorn, Joe McPhee, and the groups Mr. Bungle, Animal Collective, Sun City Girls, Secret Chiefs 3, Lori Anderson, Lou Reed, Hildur Guðnadóttir, John Zorn, SUNN O))), Jóhann Jóhannsson. Having each followed their own distinct trajectory of exploration for decades - interweaving rigorous experimentalism with diverse touchstones of cross-cultural expression - and building upon roughly 20 years working as a duo, Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang return with Azure, their third full-length with Ideologic Organ. Among their most ambitious outings to date, comprising five new compositions recorded in Seattle during the Spring and Summer of 2022, this remarkable body of sonority draws upon the traditions of Persian ghazal, Korean poetry, Dhrupad, Javanese music, free improvisation, and numerous others, culminating as a singular gesture of contemporary Minimalism that glacially unfolds across the length of the LP. Hailing from the Pacific North West, Jessika Kenney and Eyvind Kang have retained a strong presence within the context of American experimental music since their emergence during the mid 1990s, each producing some of grippingly original music to have appeared over the subsequent years. Kenney is an experimental vocalist, composer, and teacher, focused on the transformative powers of the voice and sound’s relation to mystical experience. In addition to her collaborations with Oren Ambarchi, Tashi Wada, Avey Tare, Alvin Lucier, Sarah Davachi, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Sunn O))), and numerous others, she is known for her performance of Indonesian vocal music (sindhenan) and Persian vocal music (radifs), as well as her own compositions drawing on elements of both. Kang, a composer and multi-instrumentalist who is highly regarded for his unique approach to the viola, has worked extensively across numerous fields, appearing on albums by Bill Frisell, Joe McPhee, Sun City Girls, Wayne Horvitz , Ikue Mori, Laurie Anderson, Aki Onda, John Zorn, Blonde Redhead , William Hooker, Animal Collective , Lou Reed, Oren Ambarchi, and numerous others, as well creating as a striking body of solo works that incorporate elements of his Icelandic, Danish and Korean heritage. A hypnotic return to Kenney and Kang’s unique expression of “unison music”, Azure is among the duo’s most paired down and minimal efforts in more than a decade. Its five compositions are underscored by allusions to the natural world and drifting temporarily - “like a haze of light across the sky. The morning followed after watching the moon, then the sea” - producing a profound calm that rises in arcs of tonal colour. The album’s opener, Eclipse, is a composition built around the phrase “inside the eclipse”, drawn from Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s novel, Dictee, and follows the Korean American writer’s suggestions of method and technique. Leaving aching silences between each utterance - Kenney’s sparse vocal interventions mirrored by Kang’s delicate viola tones - the piece’s collective elements produce a remarkable tension, bubbling within its spacious calm.
1 | Ocean |
2 | Eclipse |
3 | Azure |
4 | Forest Floor |
5 | No Sound |
format | vinyl |
year of release | 2023 |
artist | Jessika & Eyvind Kang Kenney |
Recently In Stock | No |
Forthcoming | Yes |
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