The Yelm Sessions Explained

The Yelm Sessions
Type:	Album
Artist:	Eyvind Kang
Cover:	The Yelm Sessions.jpg
Released:	2007
Genre:	Jazz, Contemporary classical music
Length:	42:52
Label:	Tzadik TZ 8042
Producer:	Eyvind Kang
Chronology:	Eyvind Kang
Prev Title:	Athlantis
Prev Year:	2007
Next Title:	Visible Breath
Next Year:	2012

The Yelm Sessions 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

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."

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

• Eyvind Kang - violin, viola, cello, bass, guitar, sitar, drums, keyboards, trumpet, recorder, bird ambience
• Hans Teuber - bass clarinet, clarinet, flute (track 7)
• Doug Wieselman - bass clarinet (track 6)
• Steve Moore - trombone (tracks 3, 8 & 9)
• Barbara Fasching - English horn (tracks 5 & 7)
• Taina Karr - English horn, oboe, oboe d'amore (tracks 6 & 7)
• Nikolaus Vogelhofer - French horn (tracks 5 & 7)
• Wolfgang Heiler - bassoon (tracks 5 & 7)
• Marco Dalpane - keyboards (track 4)
• Walter Zanetti - guitar (track 4)
• Kala Ramnath - violin (track 2)
• Gretchen Yanover - cello (track 11)
• Scott Schaafsma - double bass (track 6)
• Thilges 3 - programming (track 5)
• Mell Dettmer - rain ambience, Echoplex, Korg MS 20 (tracks 1, 5, 7 & 11)
• Shahzad Ismaily - drums (track 11)
• Don McGreevy - drums, percussion (Tracks 3 & 7)
• Dave Abramson - percussion (track 6)
• Matt Chamberlain - hand drums, gongs (track 4)
• Madeleine Sosin - quijara de burro (track 2)
• Jessika Kenney - voice (tracks 2 & 9)
• Degenerate Art Orchestra conducted by Joshua Kohl (track 2)
• Orchestra del Teatro Communale di Bologna conducted by Aldo Sisillo (track 4)

Notes and References

1. http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8042 Tzadik Records catalog