The Yelm Sessions

The Yelm Sessions
Studio album by Eyvind Kang
Released 2007
Genre Jazz, Contemporary classical music
Length 42:52
Label Tzadik TZ 8042
Producer Eyvind Kang
Eyvind Kang chronology

Athlantis
(2007)
The Yelm Sessions
(2007)
Visible Breath
(2012)

The Yelm Sesions is an album by violinist/multi-instrumentalist Eyvind Kang which was released in 2007 on John Zorn's Tzadik Records as part of the Composer Series.[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [2]

Allmusic music critic Stephen Eddins wrote "The pastel-colored title track, "The Yelm Sessions", and the pop-sounding Latin dance "Enter the Garden" are lovely, but are a far cry from the dark power characteristic of his most exciting work. The fourth track, though, "Fire in Wind", for orchestra, keyboards, guitar, electric bass, and percussion, inhabits the fearsome soundworld of Kang's more unsettling work, and most of the remaining pieces lead the listener through a number of dark, disturbing places."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Eyvind Kang except as indicated

  1. "The Clown's Song" - 2:35
  2. "Enter the Garden" - 4:31
  3. "The Yelm Sessions" - 2:47
  4. "Fire in Wind" - 3:46
  5. "Locus iste" (Anton Bruckner) - 0:52
  6. "Sulpicia Variation" - 2:34
  7. "Hawks Prairie" - 6:59
  8. "Hiemarmene" - 2:45
  9. "Mistress Mine" - 2:11
  10. "Asa Tru" - 7:41
  11. "Epoché for Strings" (Johann Sebastian Bach) - 6:11

Personnel

References

  1. Tzadik Records catalog, accessed January 22, 2015
  2. 2.0 2.1 Edddins, Stephen. "The Yelm Sessions > Review". Allmusic. Retrieved January 22, 2015.