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Friday, February 10, 2012
Interview The Quietus Interviews Seattle Avant Master Musician Eyvind Kang
Posted by Dave Segal on Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:49 PM
British online zine The Quietus has a good interview up now with Seattle violinist/viola, tuba and erhu player Eyvind Kang. A fixture in international avant-garde/improv/drone circles, he’s performed with Sunn O))), John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Animal Collective, Secret Chiefs 3, Alvarius B, Six Organs of Admittance, Bill Frisell, Beck, and many others.
Kang’s music is marked by its delicate, intricate beauty, rich drone tapestries, and profound spirituality. My favorite Kang release is Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age, a new kind of Scandinavian-Asian soul music (Kang is part Icelandic. Danish, and Korean). His latest album for Mike Patton's Ipecac imprint, The Narrow Garden, came out Jan. 31 (I've only heard a fraction of Visible Breath, another new release on Ideologic Organ). Garden sounds like impossibly rarefied court music composed by someone with roots in several different places and who has deep empathy for all. It’s freshly ancient.
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