INFINITY - ON AD HOC RECORDS USA - HAS JUST BEEN RELEASED. THIS ALBUM REMIXES ITSELF EVERY TIME YOU PUT IT INTO YOUR COMPUTER. IT'S DESIGNED TO PROPEL YOU INTO K-SPACE - Read the Infinity blog on this page to see how it was done
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Influences
CHAMZYRYN was a member of the legendary Tuvan avant-garde rock group
Biosyntes, and has toured and recorded with Tuvan diva, Sainkho Namtchylak. He is also a stone-carver and an initiated "shaman-artist" in
his own country.
HODGKINSON has worked with the radical Romanian composer Iancu
Dumitrescu, played alto saxophone with God, and currently plays lap steel guitar with the Konk Pack trio.
HYDER has also worked with South African, Brazilian and Celtic folk musicians and with Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist monks. He currently plays in duos with Scottish singer, Maggie Nicols and Russian pianist, Vladimir Miller.
Sounds Like
"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)
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"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
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"K-Space's Bear Bones is one of those rare beasts, a productive and respectful collaboration between western musicians and those from another culture. It sees UK improvisors Tim Hodgkinson (ex-Henry Cow) and Ken Hyder teaming up with Tuvan shaman Gendos Chamzyryn, whom they met on an extended expedition to explore the sonic aspects of shamanism in the mid-90s. Recorded in Siberia and elsewhere between 1996 and 2001, it shows that Hodgkinson and Hyder's groundwork paid off.
"On Bear Bones they neither co-opt Chamzyrn as exotic garnish to their existing music, nor do they go native and attempt to play totally in Tuvan style. Instead, the music takes account of the traditions each musician brings to the collaboration and fuses them to produce something new in which the musicians improvise with real understanding of each other's musical culture.
"It also carries with it some sense of the experiences Hyder and Hodkinson had of the extremely strange fringe technology of Kozyrev's Mirrors at a research institute in Siberia. An abstruse device which I will not pretend to understand, Kozyrev's Mirrors can reputedly warp space and time and induce telepathic experiences akin to shamanic journeys. What is amazing is how well Bear Bones works.
"By turns scary, humorous, rhythmic and abstract, it is a truly stunning piece of work, unique, powerful and infused with a deep sense of shamanic otherness."
Ian Simmons reviewing Bear Bones for nthposition
K-SPACE is:-
Gendos Chamzyryn, Tuva, Siberia: vocals, percussion, amplified doshpulur, piano, cello
Tim Hodgkinson, England: lap steel guitar, klarnet, electronics, alto saxophone
Ken Hyder, Scotland: drums, vocals, amplified ektara, sampling, electronics
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COMPUTER ONLY DISC (PC or MAC) that re-composes all musical parameters when loaded + 4 Quicktime movies + full-color photo album
A new, revolutionary album which is different every time you play it has been created by Tim Hodgkinson, Ken Hyder and Gendos Chamzyryn.
At a time when the music industry is making a dramatic shift from CDs to downloads, K-Space's Infinity presents a different option. First of all, this disk plays on a computer, not a CD player. And this is a whole piece of work - you can't download tracks from it. In fact the disk contains software that performs the 'pieces' on the album differently every time you play them. These performances are in no way random and this has nothing to do with shuffle-culture. The software is specially programmed to make choices from the available material. Furthermore you can't pause or fast-forward this album: the music is indivisible, and you can only turn it on or turn it off. In fact everything that happens is there to create a special listening experience... The sensation for the listener is of being in one space which encompasses different locations and different moments in time. And each space is different each time the piece is played. On the same disc, there's also 4 videos of the band, and a full-color photo album.
Faust's Jean-Hervé Peron says: "Great great piece of work on the musical/spiritual level as well as this very ingenuous technological twist: you buy one cd and you get x-times the length of always good music ! A genius strike ! And magic...... it is always new.. I was UP UP AND AWAY !!"
Buy it online here -
http://www.adhocrecords.com/
Kara-Ool - one our shaman-friends from Tuva
Tuvan shamans
K-Space
We wish you & your family a happy, healthy, fruit- & successful New Year of the Earth Cow!! May all your wishes & plans come true in this year of butter & cream!!
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Khoomei Throatsinging Country punk Greetings from Berlin!!
Thanks for your great concert yesturday night in Strasbourg!After such a gig you feel simply good and full of energy...Hope I'll see again one of these days in Alsace! Best, JMG
