Eyvind Kang
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About Eyvind Kang
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Composer, arranger, performer and enigmatic mystical traveller, Eyvind Kang was born in Corvallis, Oregon. He began learning violin at age of 6, studying classical violin with Dr. Howard Leighton Brown and Dr. Eugene Kowalski. He was a student of legendary jazz violinist Michael White at Cornish College of the Arts and he studied with Dr. N. Rajam in India.
He has performed internationally in his own ensembles, he has recorded and/or performed with Sun City Girls, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Secret Chiefs, John Zorn, Mike Patton, Laurie Anderson, Marc Ribot, Beck, Laura Veirs, Blonde Redhead, Animal Collective, Sunn O))) and many others. He has also worked extensively for film, theater and dance.
Eyvind Kang is one of the most original and exciting composer and violinists currently performing in the underground, a fact cemented all the more by his accomplished solo recordings.
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Discography
The Yelm Sessions (Tzadik) 2007
featuring: Jessika Kenney, Shahzad Ismaily, Steve Moore, Kala Ramnath, Doug Wieselman, Mell Dettmer, Matt Chamberlain, Gretchen Yanover, Degenerate Art Orchestra, Orchestra Del Teatro Communale Di Bologna, Aldo Sisillo and many others.
Athlantis (Ipecac Recordings) 2007
featuring: Mike Patton, Jessika Kenney, Aldo Sisillo, Ensemble Di Ottoni Di Modena, Coro Da Camera Di Bologna.
Virginal Co-Ordinates (Ipecac Recordings/I Dischi di Angelica) 2004
featuring: Mike Patton, Michael White, Tim Young, Evan Schiller, Tucker Martine, Aldo Sisillo, The Playground Ensemble.
The Story of Iceland (Tzadik) 2000
featuring: Bill Frisell, Kala Ramnath, Tucker Martine, Evan Schiller, Timothy Young, Keith Lowe, Jessica Lurie, Bar McKinnon and many others.
Theater of Mineral NADEs (Tzadik) 1998
featuring: Trey Spruance, Courtney Agguire, Tucker Martine, Steve Moore, Timothy Young and many others.
7 NADEs (Tzadik) 1996
featuring: Timothy Young, Brent Arnold, Scott Colburne, Trey Spruance, Courtney Aguirre and many others.
Unavailable Albums/Limited Pressing
Petrified Wood - 2002
Sweetness of Sickness (Radio God Innoculator) 1996
Driftwood and Dreams (7"/ Rabio God Innoculator) 1995
Various Artists
Collaborated Albums
Napoli 23
Eyvind Kang, Skuli Sverrisson, Matthias M.D. Hemstock (Smekkleysa) 2003
Aiko Shimada - Blue Marble (Tzadik) 2001
- Eyvind Kang as producer, arranger and performer.
Dying Ground
- Live at the Knitting Factory: Eyvind Kang, Kato Hideki & G. Calvin Weston (Avant/Diw) 1999
Collaborations
2010
Laurie Anderson - Homeland (Nonesuch)
The Cloves
Laura Veirs - July Flame (Raven Marching Band/Bella Union)
2009
Red Jacket Mine - Lovers Lookout (Showpony)
Metalycée - It Is Not (Mosz)
Gordon Grdina's East Van Strings - The Breathing of Statues (Songlines)
Six Organs Of Admittance - Luminous Night (Drag City)
Niobe - Blackbird's Echo (Tomlab)
Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)
Robert Burger - City of Strangers (Tzadik)
Jen Wood - Finds You In Love (Jen Wood)
Laura Gibson - Beasts of Seasons (Hush)
2008
Lou Reed - Berlin Live at St. Ann's Warehouse (Matador)
Lisa Miller Octet - Sleep Furiously (Green Ideas)
Mister Lonely : Soundtrack - w/ Sun City Girls (Drag City)
Bill Frisell - History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
Reptet - Chicken or Beef ? (Monktail Rec.)
Stebmo - Stebmo (Stebmo)
Jenny Scheinman - Crossing The Field (Koch Rec.)
Jamshied Sharifi - One (Ceres)
Samamidon - All Is Well (Bedroom Community)
Red Jacket Mine - Hello, Old Cloud (Showpony)
2007
Jarrad Powell - Stonehouse Songs (Present Sounds)
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers (Nonesuch)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Path of Most Resistance (Mimicry Records)
Floratone - Floratone (Blue Note)
Anyu - Reasons (Axent)
Glass Candy - Miss Broadway (Troubleman Unlimited)
Thilges - La Double Absence (Staubgold)
Two Loons for Tea - Nine Lucid Dreams (Sarathan)
Mamak Khadem - Jostojoo (Banyan Tree Prod)
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter - Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls of the Soul (Barsuk)
2006
Skúli Sverrisson - Seria (12 Tónar)
Mike Dumovich - Mesojunarian (Tarnished)
Gabriela - El Viaje (Intuition)
Brent Arnold - Cinema Deep Crush (Audiofriction Music)
Wayne Horvitz - Whispers, Hymns and a Murmur (Tzadik)
Caryn Kupferman - Pitch Black Mile (Socially Inept Music)
Badawi - Safe (Asphodel)
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife (Capitol)
Kevin Joyce - Say It (EnJoy Prod)
Jim Ragland - When I Grow Up (Jim Ragland)
Sunn O))) / Boris - Altar "limited editions" (Southern/Inoxia/Daymare)
Robin Holcomb - John Brown's Body (Tzadik)
Yungchen Lhamo - Ama (Real World)
Joan As Police Woman - Real Life (Reveal)
Various Artists - Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (Anti-)
2005
Gretchen Yanover - Bow and Cello (Gretchen Yanover)
Bill Frisell - Richter 858 (Songlines)
The Long Winters - Ultimatum EP (Barsuk)
Animal Collective - Feels (FatCat)
Laura Veirs - Year of Meteors (Nonesuch)
Amy Denio - Tasogare (Public Eyesore)
Critters Buggin - Monkeypot Merganzer (Kufala)
Matt Chamberlain - Matt Chamberlain (Mimicry Records)
Julia Francis - Five Challenges to Flight (No Shrinking Violet)
The Stares - Spine to Sea (Mimicry Records)
Asva - The Third Plagues / A Trap For Judges (Enterruption)
Laura Veirs - The Triumphs & Travails of Orphan Mae (Bella Union)
Alvarius B. - Blood Operatives Of The Barium Sunset (Abduction)
KJ Sawka - Synchronized Decompression (Wax Orchard)
Blonde Redhead - The Secret Society Of Butterflies (4AD)
Magdalen Hsu-Li - Smashing the Ceiling (Chickpop)
2004
Critters Buggin - Stampede (Ropeadope)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book Of Hoizons (Mimicry Records)
O.blaat - Two Novels : Gaze / In The Cochlea (Crónica)
Mount Analog - New Skin (Film Guerrero)
Mylab Mylab (Terminus)
Laura Veirs - Carbon Glacier (Nonesuch)
Jim White - Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See (Luaka Bop/V2)
Branden Harper - Tangents (Endless Records)
Raz Mesinai - Cyborg Acoustics (Tzadik)
Master Musicians of Bukkake - The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order (Abduction)
Brent Arnold & The Spheres - Last Boat (Up Records)
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly (4AD)
William Hooker Ensemble - Complexity 2 (Kos Records)
Jami Sieber - Hidden Sky (Out Front Music)
Various Artist - Amalgam(e) - 10 Years of Red Toucan (Red Toucan)
2003
Andrew Drury - Momentary Lapse (Innova)
Laura Veirs - Troubled by the Fire (Bellaire)
The Ruby Doe - Dream Engine Blue (Hometown Tragedy)
2002
Tableland - Tremulous Elemental (Sonic Boom)
Jason Webley - Counterpoint (Springman)
Jessica Lurie - !Zipa Buka! (Zipa! Music)
Robin Holcomb - The Big Time (Nonesuch)
Wayne Horvitz - Film Music 1998-2001 (Tzadik)
Ely Guerra - Lotofire (Higher Octave)
Two Loons for Tea - Looking for Landmarks (Sarathan)
John Schuller - Lesser Angel of Failure (World Misery)
Geoff Tate (Sanctuary)
Aki Onda - Don't Say Anything (Ewe)
2001
Secret Chiefs 3 - Book M (Mimicry Records)
No Soap Rodeo - Hey Sailor (Tower)
Laura Veirs - The Triumphs and Travails of Orphan Mae (Minner Bucket)
Sanford Arms - Too Loud for the Snowman (Orchard)
Laurie Anderson - Life on a String (Atlantic)
Two Loons for Tea - Two Loons for Tea (Sarathan)
Wayne Horvitz - From a Window (Avant/Diw)
2000
Finding Forrester - Soundtrack (Sony)
Jessica Lurie - Motorbison Serenade (Zipa! Music)
Antonio Chainho - A Guitarra E Outras Mulheres (Movie Play)
Ikue Mori - One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tzadik)
Sinister Kitchen (Endless Records)
Aiko Shimada - Sound (East Works Entertainment)
1999
Robert Reigle - The Marriage of Heaven and Earth (Acoustic Levitation)
Arto Lindsay - Prize (Righteous Babe)
El Gran Silencio - Libres Y Locos (Ark 21/EMI)
Mark Nodwell - (Co)Incidents (Songlines)
Jr - Songs of Angels
Secret Chiefs 3 - Eyes Of Flesh ~ Eyes Of Flame (Mimicry Records)
Mr. Bungle - California (Warner Bros)
Rockin Teenage Combo - Mr Birdy's Fryday (Endless Records)
1998
Andrew Drury - Polish Theater Posters (Red Toucan)
Line 4 - Pieces of Time (Spool)
Aiko Shimada - Window (Bera)
Sun City Girls - Dulce (Abduction)
Wayne Horvitz - 4+1 Ensemble (Intuition)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Zulfikar II / Zulfikar III (Mimicry Records)
Death Praxis : Tenko / Ikue Mori - Mystery (Tzadik)
1997
Timothy Young - With Very Special People (Endless Records)
Michael White & Bill Frisell - Motion Picture (Intuition) producer
Charles Gocher & Scott Colburn Jr - Pint Sized Spartacus (Gravelvoice)
Gabriela - Detrás Del Sol (Intuition)
Secret Chiefs 3 - Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws: Hurqalaya (Mimicry Records)
Mount Analog (Pehr Records)
We - As Is (Asphodel)
1996
Karen Pernick - Apartment 12 (Shanachi)
Aiko Shimada - Bright And Dark (Bera)
Doghead (Cavity Search)
Michael Bisio Quintet - Covert Choreography (Cadence Jazz)
Bill Frisell - Quartet (Nonesuch)
Sun City Girls - 330,003 Cross Dressers from Beyond the Rig Veda (Abduction)
Joe Mcphee Quintet - Common Threads: Live at the Tractor Tavern (Deep Listening)
1995
John Doe Thing - Kissingsohard (Rhino)
Video Appearance
2008 - Lou Reed's Berlin a film by Julian Schnabel (Waterboy Productions)
2004 - Sun City Girls - It's Not Over 'Till the Skinny Arab Lights the Fuse (Abduction)
2004 - Sun City Girls - The Burning Nerve Ending Magic Trick (Abduction)
2003 - Robin Holcomb - O, Say A Sunset directed by Nikki Appino (Appino Productions)
Musical Notes
2000 - Arcana : Musicians on Music - edited by John Zorn (Tzadik)
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