K-Space - Going Up
SKU
ADHOC12
Performed by: Gendos Chamzyryn (Tuva), Tim Hodgkinson (England), Ken Hyder (Scotland). "For Going Up these musicians have super imposed performances from different occasions and places, some dating back to Hyder and Hodgkinsons initial trip to Siberia in 1990, but also concerts staged in Western Europe. These recordings, with their disparate acoustic properties, are overlaid and overlapped to form dense sonic thickets alive with action and event,palpably embedded in the multi-dimensional flux of the world and lived social structures. Human voices conversing, footfalls on frozen ground, a blackbird singing, the sound of the wind or water, the crackling of wood in a fire, audience applause - sounds from specific sites with their own peculiar resonance and significance leak through the K-Space mesh into thelistening present. This layering and the filtering through of discrete geographic and temporaloccasions compounds that superimposition already at work in the trio, the piling up and overlap of intense personal experience. Chamzyryn, a bona fide shaman and folk artist; Hodgkinson, academically trained in social anthropology, an exploratory rock musician, composer and radical improviser; Hyder, jazz drummer, free player, inveterate field worker in remote musical worlds. Chamzyryn brings his astonishing deep-vocal overtone singing and thetrance tempo beat of his dungur shaman drum. Hodgkinson plays lap steel guitar and reeds. Hyder, heard drumming and singing, tells me that this music puts into practice 'a whole lot of things we've learned over a very long time'. But that practical knowledge and acquired technique inhere in the substance of this remarkable montage; it's never really a matter of who's playing what or how. Other instruments feature; other sounds whose source is unclear. Going Up layers episodes of instrumental, vocal and environmental sound activity to induce states of listening that dont merely involve expectations being met. It creates its own contexts, shifting shape,juggling time, volatile with details realigning on each listen. And it carries the imprint of a lived world that admits fascination as well as intensity of physical experience. The crucial thing is to hear and feel it. It's made for those of us who want listening to remain a real adventure and an ongoing process of discovery."-Julian Cowley The Wire [Ad Hoc]