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Member Since: 4/28/2006
Band Website: hyder.demon.co.uk
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Influences: CHAMZYRYN was a member of the legendary Tuvan avant-garde rock group
Biosyntes, and has toured and recorded with Tuvan diva, Sainkho Namtchylak. He is also a stone-carver and an initiated "shaman-artist" in
his own country.HODGKINSON has worked with the radical Romanian composer Iancu
Dumitrescu, played alto saxophone with God, and currently plays lap steel guitar with the Konk Pack trio.HYDER has also worked with South African, Brazilian and Celtic folk musicians and with Japanese and Tibetan Buddhist monks. He currently plays in duos with Scottish singer, Maggie Nicols and Russian pianist, Vladimir Miller.
Sounds Like: "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)+++++"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+++++"K-Space's Bear Bones is one of those rare beasts, a productive and respectful collaboration between western musicians and those from another culture. It sees UK improvisors Tim Hodgkinson (ex-Henry Cow) and Ken Hyder teaming up with Tuvan shaman Gendos Chamzyryn, whom they met on an extended expedition to explore the sonic aspects of shamanism in the mid-90s. Recorded in Siberia and elsewhere between 1996 and 2001, it shows that Hodgkinson and Hyder's groundwork paid off."On Bear Bones they neither co-opt Chamzyrn as exotic garnish to their existing music, nor do they go native and attempt to play totally in Tuvan style. Instead, the music takes account of the traditions each musician brings to the collaboration and fuses them to produce something new in which the musicians improvise with real understanding of each other's musical culture."It also carries with it some sense of the experiences Hyder and Hodkinson had of the extremely strange fringe technology of Kozyrev's Mirrors at a research institute in Siberia. An abstruse device which I will not pretend to understand, Kozyrev's Mirrors can reputedly warp space and time and induce telepathic experiences akin to shamanic journeys. What is amazing is how well Bear Bones works."By turns scary, humorous, rhythmic and abstract, it is a truly stunning piece of work, unique, powerful and infused with a deep sense of shamanic otherness."
Ian Simmons reviewing Bear Bones for nthposition
Record Label: Ad Hoc, USA
Type of Label: Indie
