Eyvind Kang – Visible Breath
Eyvind Kang is no stranger within the grey area between experimental Jazz, Drone and Metal. One of his most prominent appearances is as a contributor to Sunn O)))’s “Monoliths&Dimensions” album. His solo work “Visible Breath”, released on Stephen O’Malley’s Ideologic Organ shows him as an avid modern composer and musician with a strong leaning towards minimal music.
The first track “Visible Breath“ starts off with a little slower pace. Shimmering high pitch drones are layered delicately over each other, moving in and out of focus letting the piece ebb and swell, before it all rises in disharmonic crescendos and clusters. Their lamenting undertones of rising and falling pitches close the piece with a mournful howl.
The second piece works more like like a bridge between the two longer pieces, although it runs around six minutes. The directions are alot straighter here with their movement from spacious accents towards a repetitive four note figure.
The third track picks up the circular structure of his predecessor, but soon changes pace and timbre to make place for hazy, lucid swells that echo off into silent introspective moments. The final, scarppy dispute holds its discourse in muffled tension just to leave the listener floating in silence. This is a highly rewarding recording that is – under the surface – a lot calmer then it might appear at first – a paradox album, with dense tranquility, sparse instrumentation and precise orchestration of frequencies and events.
