NEW - Rituale Urbano is an Italian/Scottish trio – which is sometimes a quartet.
The Italians are Davide Piersanti, trombone and Gianfranco Tedeschi, bass. Ken Hyder, drums – and when it’s a quartet, fellow-Scot Raymond MacDonald joins on saxes.
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Current projects include ....
K-SPACE - with Gendos Chamzyryn and Tim Hodgkinson.......
HOOTS AND ROOTS - with Maggie Nicols.....THE SHAM-FONK RHYTHM SECTION with Scipio..........
KEN HYDER/RAYMOND MACDONALD duo......
REALTIME - with z'ev, Andy Knight and Scipio........
GEOFF HEARN/KEN HYDER duo..........
RAZ3 - with Tim Hodgkinson and Lu Edmonds....
VLADIMIR MILLER/KEN HYDER duo................................................................................................................................................................I'M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PLAYING WITH NEW MUSICIANS WITH FRESH IDEAS AND ENERGY.
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Influences
More info, photos and tracks at - www.hyder.demon.co.uk -http://ken.hyder.googlepages.com - .................................... Among those I’ve played with – DICK GAUGHAN, VLADIMIR REZITSKY, TIM HODGKINSON, PAUL ROGERS, PHIL MINTON, the Scottish LINDSAY COOPER, GENDOS CHAMZYRYN, MAGGIE NICOLS, FRANKIE ARMSTRONG, SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK, JO'BURG HAWK, MARCIO MATTOS, JIM DVORAK, JOHN EDWARDS, A NUMBER OF JAPANESE AND TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS (Bardo State Orchestra), TONY MARSH, BOLOT BIRYSHEV, Z’EV, NICK STEPHENS, SHIKU YANO, DAVIE WEBSTER, JOHN RANGECROFT, RADIK TYULYUSH, JULIAN BAHULA, LUCKY RANKU, ERNEST MOTHLE, ROBERTO BELLATALLA, VALENTINA PONOMAREVA, SIBERIAN SHAMANS INCLUDING DOPSHUN-OOL KARA-OOL, SERGEI TUMAT, and the wolfman-shaman TEPAN MANZYRYKCHY, LARRY STABBINS, pipers TOMAS LYNCH and DAVE BROOKS (The World's Smallest Jazz Pipe Band), CHANTER, R. D. LAING, HARRY BECKETT, ART THEMEN, GARY WINDO, PETE MCPHAIL, CHYSKYYRAI, KEITH TIPPETT, ELTON DEAN, HARRY MILLER, NICK EVANS, MARK HEWINS, VLADIMIR MILLER, RAYMOND MACDONALD, ANDY KNIGHT, NTSHUKS BONGA, HAMISH HENDERSON, DON PATERSON, LU EDMONDS, WERNER LUDI, CHRIS BISCOE, JON DOBIE, SCIPIO and LELLO COLOMBO.
Sounds Like
“He has provided a blueprint for the increasing number of European musicians who have been incorporating elements of folk music into their jazz.”
The Guinness Who’s Who of Jazz...................................................................
“Hyder has one of the strongest strokes in jazz, deployed with an astonishing technique. Not for a moment does his polyrhythmic machine falter, his four limbs continuing to beat with an implacable precision”
Oest France................................................................
“Hyder's now long-standing involvement in trans-Siberian, shamanic music comes across in hauntingly vocalised passages and in his remarkably open-minded and uncluttered sense of musical space.”
Penguin book of Jazz.....................................................................................
"In a recent interview, Hyder remarked that shamanistic drumming has nothing to do with timekeeping; it is a means of accessing spiritual energy. Beyond all expectations, this recording actually touches that energy source - it is charged with visceral yet transcendent vibrations. Simply awesome."
Bill Tilland, BBC...................................................................
“He propels his players with a frenzied energy and passion that’s breathtaking.”
Fanfare, New York.........................................................................................
"It's too cool for IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), too hot for trance, too formlessly simple for jazz and too formal and structured for improv. Maybe that's why I enjoy it so much."
Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine (USA).......................................................................................
"Hyder's constructions draw equally on dance and industry, as self-sustaining as ritual, as functional as the chug of locomotive pistons."
Julian Cowley, The Wire
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Ken Hyder's Talisker
Dreaming of Glenisla
(Reel Recordings)
Sonic deluges of grandeur burst forth from this sublime record, first birthed in 1975 by the Scottish free-improv drum shaman Ken Hyder and blessedly resurrected this year by a new label out of Dundas, Ontario. Dedicated to reissuing long lost gems on disc, Reel Recordings is using pioneering techniques to infuse digital audio with the all the warmth and lifelike playback heard on original analog tapes. It's a noble effort, especially in the service of captivating works of beauty like Dreaming of Glenisla. Hyder's debut, it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams.
Doug Schulkind's
Favorites of '07 WFMU
Give the Drummer Some
Record Label
Ad Hoc;SLAM;Impetus; Virgin; Konnex; Ayler; Reel +
.......KEN HYDER - born and brought up in DUNDEE, SCOTLAND - drums, percussion, voice, ektara, has been playing and composing music for over 40 years. In that time he’s produced over a couple of dozen albums of highly original material.
He began playing jazz in Scotland before moving south to London where he played at the legendary Little Theatre Club - an avant garde haunt run by the late John Stevens.
Hyder formed Talisker and went on to make six albums with this pioneering and proto-type Celtic jazz group.
In the 1970s he began moving away from jazz and into collaborations with musicians from different musical backgrounds including Irish, South African and South American players.
Later, he became interested in exploring spiritual aspects of music with spiritual practitioners like Tibetan and Japanese Buddhist monks, and Siberian shamans.
Scotland and Siberia are now the strongest influences in his current work.
Full Wire magazine profile http://www.hyder.demon.co.uk/wire.htm
MacDonald-Burt band featuring Keith Tippett - Dundee
Cheers Ken - on all fronts! Meanwhile, the third piece has just been uploaded - Suibhne Organum Tertius Auris - in honour of Mad Sweeney & the Third Ear Band - and more than a hint of Talisker I shouldn't wonder!
Hi, hope You are well too, always doing good powerfull, deep music, and enjoying it. Always close to people and nature Thank you so much for your comment (three months ago!), I feel happy if my paintings cheery you and ligth you...more
Shagaa indeed -- I just picked out a couple of drafts about Tomsk the other day, and had a wee think about frozenness, so 'obviously' there's a link. Whatever, Eh'll hae a drink. Here's Tuva!
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