Eyvind Kang: Athlantis
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Music CD Cover Composer: Eyvind Kang Conductor: Aldo Sisillo Performer: Ensemble di Ottoni di Modena Performer: Mike Patton Performer: Jessica Kenney Edition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language) CD Release Date: 2007-07-10 Music Label: Ipecac Recordings Soundtracks:
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Hit: 4 Stars
Eyvind Kang is indeed enigmatic. His first release on Tzadik, 7 NADEs, was a blizzard of sound, from noise to jazz to French lyrics. His followup, Theater of Mineral NADEs, was a little more partitioned, but still a great mix of styles, from ancient rhythms to reggae. From there, he has done work with Secret Chiefs 3 (check out Second Grand Constitution and Bylaws, Hurqalya if you want to hear Secret Chiefs 3 at their Kang best), the Bill Frisell quartet, and seems to play any kind of music invented (and then some).
But all in all, Kang seems to be the most modern kind of composer--not one who is trying to revive European traditions or fight entropy and try to revive classical traditions by inventing some new style he can talk about on the lecture circuit, but takes the essences of music around him, whether it be Zornian noise or simple rhythms; this in confirmed in this recording, a cycle of choral and orchestral music that feels more fresh and accesible than many other academic classical music nowadays.
What I love most about Kang is his sense of earnestness, even when doing something as strange as The Visible Sign of the Invisible Order, for any kind of music needs such focused, immediate effort. Mike Patton contributes his voice to this project, though don't expect to hear anything like his Hemophiliac work, and maybe Patton's voice stands out a little too easily from the other choral work here, but Kang clearly has a sense of control here, a sound that is more contemporary than backward-looking.
Maybe not a toe-tapper, but let's face it--if you're a fan of Eyvind Kang, and I'm talking ALL of Eyvind Kang, from Dying Ground to The Story of Iceland to Sweetness of Sickness, you must not be expecting anything terribly familiar. This is Kang music, and I love to sit back and let this guy tell me with every recording what that really means.