Label: Aspen Edities

90年代中期からTzadikに多くのアルバムを残し、イタリアのコンテンポラリーレーベルI Dischi Di Angelica、Important Records 、Ideologic Organ、Black Truffleなど人気レーベルからも諸作をリリースしている実力派ヴィオラ奏者Eyvind Kang。様々な演奏家を招き実践したコンセプチュアルな超ミニマル作[Sonic Gnostic]。限られた音符を繰り返す探求より生み出された楽曲集で、なるべく1つの音符を継続する、徐々に速度を落とす、数種のパターンを混ぜる等、至極シンプルな構造で作られた幽玄な反復。





These recordings document a live concert in Los Angeles. Bill Frisell, Tim
Tsang, Timothy Young, Lu Coy, Breana Gilcher, Diego Gaeta, Jessika Kenney, Jesse Quebbeman-Turley joined Eyvind Kang on stage. The double LP is completed with a solo performance of one of Kang’s compositions by pianist Adrienne Varner.
The conceptual, spiritual and searching style of Kang binds everything together.
The guitar pieces - ‘binnah’ and ‘plainlight’ - are what Kang calls ‘oceanic’.
After a while, they gradually slow down, coming to rest on a tonic. How long can the group be happy with just one note? The piano pieces - ‘grass’ and ‘grass study’ - do the opposite. It is ‘evaporating’: a scattering effect. No tonic, no key, no tempo. These chiasmic approaches turn out to have a lot in common.
They blend and recombine sounds.
The result is a gentle record, interesting to the mind and soothing to the heart.