Ken Hyder

Music:

Member Since: 8/19/2007
Band Website: hyder.demon.co.uk
Band Members: NEW - REALTIME'S DOWNLOAD-ONLY ALBUM "IN THE SHAMAN'S POCKET" - OUT ON AYLER RECORDS..................................................... ............................. http://www.ayler.com/_catalogue_dl.htm .................................................Current projects include .... K-SPACE - with Gendos Chamzyryn and Tim Hodgkinson....... HOOTS AND ROOTS - with Maggie Nicols.....THE SHAM-FONK RHYTHM SECTION with Scipio.......... KEN HYDER/RAYMOND MACDONALD duo......REALTIME - with z'ev, Andy Knight and Scipio........ GEOFF HEARN/KEN HYDER duo..........RAZ3 - with Tim Hodgkinson and Lu Edmonds....VLADIMIR MILLER/KEN HYDER duo......................................................... ............................................................ ...........................................I'M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN PLAYING WITH NEW MUSICIANS WITH FRESH IDEAS AND ENERGY.Profile edited with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
Influences: More info, photos and tracks at - www.hyder.demon.co.uk -http://ken.hyder.googlepages.com - .................................... Among those I’ve played with – DICK GAUGHAN, VLADIMIR REZITSKY, TIM HODGKINSON, PAUL ROGERS, PHIL MINTON, the Scottish LINDSAY COOPER, GENDOS CHAMZYRYN, MAGGIE NICOLS, FRANKIE ARMSTRONG, SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK, JO'BURG HAWK, MARCIO MATTOS, JIM DVORAK, JOHN EDWARDS, A NUMBER OF JAPANESE AND TIBETAN BUDDHIST MONKS (Bardo State Orchestra), TONY MARSH, BOLOT BIRYSHEV, Z’EV, NICK STEPHENS, SHIKU YANO, DAVIE WEBSTER, JOHN RANGECROFT, RADIK TYULYUSH, JULIAN BAHULA, LUCKY RANKU, ERNEST MOTHLE, ROBERTO BELLATALLA, VALENTINA PONOMAREVA, SIBERIAN SHAMANS INCLUDING DOPSHUN-OOL KARA-OOL, SERGEI TUMAT, and the wolfman-shaman TEPAN MANZYRYKCHY, LARRY STABBINS, pipers TOMAS LYNCH and DAVE BROOKS (The World's Smallest Jazz Pipe Band), CHANTER, R. D. LAING, HARRY BECKETT, ART THEMEN, GARY WINDO, PETE MCPHAIL, CHYSKYYRAI, KEITH TIPPETT, ELTON DEAN, HARRY MILLER, NICK EVANS, MARK HEWINS, VLADIMIR MILLER, RAYMOND MACDONALD, ANDY KNIGHT, NTSHUKS BONGA, HAMISH HENDERSON, DON PATERSON, LU EDMONDS, WERNER LUDI, CHRIS BISCOE, JON DOBIE, SCIPIO and LELLO COLOMBO.
Sounds Like: “He has provided a blueprint for the increasing number of European musicians who have been incorporating elements of folk music into their jazz.”The Guinness Who’s Who of Jazz........................................................ ........... “Hyder has one of the strongest strokes in jazz, deployed with an astonishing technique. Not for a moment does his polyrhythmic machine falter, his four limbs continuing to beat with an implacable precision”Oest France...................................................... ..........“Hyder's now long-standing involvement in trans-Siberian, shamanic music comes across in hauntingly vocalised passages and in his remarkably open-minded and uncluttered sense of musical space.”Penguin book of Jazz........................................................ ............................."In a recent interview, Hyder remarked that shamanistic drumming has nothing to do with timekeeping; it is a means of accessing spiritual energy. Beyond all expectations, this recording actually touches that energy source - it is charged with visceral yet transcendent vibrations. Simply awesome." Bill Tilland, BBC......................................................... ..........“He propels his players with a frenzied energy and passion that’s breathtaking.”Fanfare, New York........................................................ ................................."It's too cool for IDM (Intelligent Dance Music), too hot for trance, too formlessly simple for jazz and too formal and structured for improv. Maybe that's why I enjoy it so much."Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine (USA)....................................................... ................................"Hyder's constructions draw equally on dance and industry, as self-sustaining as ritual, as functional as the chug of locomotive pistons."Julian Cowley, The Wire ............................................................ ......................................................Ken Hyder's Talisker Dreaming of Glenisla (Reel Recordings) Sonic deluges of grandeur burst forth from this sublime record, first birthed in 1975 by the Scottish free-improv drum shaman Ken Hyder and blessedly resurrected this year by a new label out of Dundas, Ontario. Dedicated to reissuing long lost gems on disc, Reel Recordings is using pioneering techniques to infuse digital audio with the all the warmth and lifelike playback heard on original analog tapes. It's a noble effort, especially in the service of captivating works of beauty like Dreaming of Glenisla. Hyder's debut, it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams.Doug Schulkind's Favorites of '07 WFMU Give the Drummer Some
Record Label: Ad Hoc; SLAM: Impetus; Virgin; ECM; Konnex;Ayler +
Type of Label: Indie