Eyvind Kang

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Eyvind Kang, moers festival 2010
Eyvind Kang (2009 in Saalfelden)

Eyvind Kang (born June 23, 1971 in Corvallis (Oregon) ) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist ( violin , viola , tuba , erhu ) of the Modern Creative .

Live and act

Kang grew up in Canada and the United States. From 1990 he studied in Seattle at the Cornish College of the Arts with Michael White and later also took classes with N. Rajam in Mumbai . He met John Zorn through Wayne Horvitz . He worked with such diverse musicians as Zorn, Horvitz, François Houle , Bill Frisell , Mike Patton , Sunn 0))) , Marc Ribot , Michael Bisio and Beck , whom he accompanied on a tour of Japan in 2000. With Calvin Weston and Kato Hideki he founded the trio Dying Ground .

In 1994, Kang received funding from the Jack Straw Foundation and was able to record the first seven of a series of compositions he called Nades (a play on words with serenade ). The album made him known to critics and was included in various best lists in 1996. Further Nades are included on the follow-up album Theater of Mineral NADEs .

The multi-instrumentalist is also featured on albums by Joe McPhee , Arto Lindsay , Mr. Bungle , Secret Chiefs 3 , Sun City Girls , Animal Collective (on their album Feels ), Laura Veirs , Robin Holcomb , The Decemberists ( The Crane Wife ; 2006), Sunn O ( Monoliths & Dimensions ) as well as Boris ( Altar ) and napoli 13 . He also worked with Jim Knapp and has written arrangements for Blonde Redhead .

Kang lives on Vashon Island in Washington .

Discographic notes

  • 7 NADEs Tzadik (1996)
  • Sweetness of Sickness RGI Industries (1996/9)
  • Dying Ground Avant (1998)
  • Pieces of Time Line 4 / Spool (1999)
  • Michael Bisio & Eyvind Kang MBEK Meniscus Records (2000)
  • The Story of Iceland Tzadik (2000)
  • Amir Koushkani with Eyvind Kang In the Path of Love (2001)
  • Live Low to the Earth in the Iron Age (2002)
  • Virginal Co Ordinates Ipecac (2003)
  • Eyvind Kang & Tucker Martine Orchestra Dim Bridges Conduit (2004)
  • Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang uarstuarium Endless Records (2005)
  • Athlantis Ipecac (2007)
  • The Yelm Sessions Tzadik (2007)
  • Visible Breath Ideologic Organ (2012)
  • The Narrow Garden Ipecac (2012)
  • Grass (Tzadik, 2012)
  • Alastor: Book of Angels Volume 21 (Tzadik, 2014)

literature

  • Lloyd Peterson (2006): Music and the Creative Spirit. Innovators in Jazz, Improvisation, and the Avant Garde. Studies in Jazz 52; ISBN 978-0-8108-5284-6
  • John Zorn (Ed., 2000): Arcana: Musicians on Music . New York: Granary Books / Hips Road; ISBN 1-887123-27-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He was on his albums Quartet (1996) meeting at AllAboutJazz and Richter 858 meeting at AllAboutJazz active
  2. ↑ Brief portrait
personal data
SURNAME Kang, Eyvind
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and multi-instrumentalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Corvallis (Oregon)