''The Yelm Sessions'' is an album by violinist/multi-instrumentalist

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which was released in 2007 on

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Tzadik Records Tzadik is a record label in New York City that specializes in avant-garde and experimental music. The label was established by composer and saxophonist John Zorn in 1995. He is the executive producer of all Tzadik releases. Tzadik is a not-for-p ...

as part of the Composer Series.Tzadik Records catalog
accessed January 22, 2015

Reception

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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'' # "The Clown's Song" - 2:35 # "Enter the Garden" - 4:31 # "The Yelm Sessions" - 2:47 # "Fire in Wind" - 3:46 # "

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) - 0:52 # "Sulpicia Variation" - 2:34 # "Hawks Prairie" - 6:59 # "Hiemarmene" - 2:45 # "Mistress Mine" - 2:11 # "Asa Tru" - 7:41 # "Epoché for Strings" (

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Personnel

- 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) *

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- violin (track 10) *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) *

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- 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)

References

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