KENNEY, JESSIKA & EYVIND KANG - Aestuarium

Format: LP

Label & Cat.Number: Ideologic Organ SOMA002

Release Year: 2011

Note: "minimalist spectral music" with beautiful vocals sung on Latin by JESSIKA KENNEY & viola-sounds by EYVIND KANG, inspired by Gaelic and Tibetan folk traditions. Re-issue of CD-R from 2005. Really breathtaking stuff, highly recommended !

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"Jessika Kenney is a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of vocal traditions.
Eyvind Kang is a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline.

Aestuarium is a meditation on a psalm of lamentation and the unary tone in the metaphor of salt and fresh water, inspired by Gaelic psalmery, Tibetan notational gestures, and the microtonality of the tetrachord. Recorded on the shore of Colvos Passage in 2005 by renowned engineer Mell Dettmer.

Stephen O'Malley comments: "Amongst many other amazing pieces Jessika & Eyvind collaborated on SUNN O)))'s "Monoliths & Dimensions" album, Jessika leading the choir on the piece "Big Church" and Eyvind composing the acoustic arrangements for "Big Church" & "Alice". I learned an immense amount about music through these collaborations, specifically the idea of Spectral music through research and discussion/reference points of composers such as Grisey and Murail. Aestuarium is a beautiful piece of minimalist spectral music which has brought great pleasure to my ears over the years."

Originally released on CD by Endless Records 2005.

Ideologic Organ curation and art direction by Stephen O'Malley, manufactured and distributed by Editions Mego." [label info]

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