[ TAO 20 ]
DoYeon Kim: gayageum, voice, composition
Tyshawn Sorey: drums
Mat Maneri: viola
Henry Fraser: bass
Wellspring presents the arrival of a powerful new voice in creative music, unrelenting in passion and invention, while always transmitting a deeply empathic grace. Masterful composer-improviser DoYeon Kim is an unparalleled practitioner of the Korean gayageum (a silk-string zither), and is also in possession of a purposeful vocal intensity. This is her debut album as a bandleader, featuring fellow master musicians Tyshawn Sorey (drums), Mat Maneri (viola), Henry Fraser (bass).
Armed with an unlikely traditional instrument, flanked by three extraordinary improvisers, radiating a brash, acoustic strategy that simultaneously invokes folk universalism and a No Wave battle-stance, the Brooklyn-based virtuoso will drop a volcanic sonic statement with grand humanist goals on May
- 1. The Beats of Distant Thunder
- 2. Whispers Among Dawn
- 3. Sun Shower
- 4. Diffraction
- 5. Linear System
- 6. Calculus of Our Souls
