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- Summary: The latest release from Eyvind Kang features influences from eastern music.
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- Record Label: Ipecac
- Genre(s): Classical, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Chamber Music, Avant-Garde Music
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The WireMay 11, 2012An interesting example of a performer getting more experimental and simultaneously more studio-savvy, Chenaux has produced his best work yet. [Mar 2012, p.51]
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UncutApr 26, 2012Here, we find the mufti-instrumentalist in his natural habitat, leading a band in seven pieces that blend Eastern-tinged melody, courtly medieval music and modern composition. [Mar 2012, p.90]
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May 8, 2012It is his most ambitious and focused work, and combines not only instruments and musical traditions, but cultural sonances and histories as well.
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May 8, 2012The Narrow Garden features some of the most sunny and flowering music that Kang has created, seamlessly joined with a couple of sinister threnodies.
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May 8, 2012Taken by itself, it has some pretty tracks, as well as some intriguing ones. Yet for the majority of the album I was left wondering what this music was meant to be used for.
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May 24, 2012The Narrow Garden is, at times, polite to a fault, its sensual romance lacking visceral urgency.