Byron Au Yong

songs of dislocation
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Walking CD
DESCRIPTION
Unusual instruments and vocal techniques produce a theatrical music that evokes secret rituals. The eclectic instrumentation includes er-hu (Chinese fiddle), euphonium, Irish flute, Noh voices, shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute), string bass, tabla, taiko, trombone, dhung chen (Tibetan long horns), voices, and xun (clay flute).


FROM THE PRODUCER
Stirring, meditative, but distinctively contemporary music by Byron Au Yong, drawing upon traditional Asian aesthetics and instruments. There is a highly ritualistic quality to Au Yong's music, especially in Walking, which features Noh Theater vocal techniques and percussion. The compositions also include Stirring and Weaving. The latter is a shakuhachi solo composed at the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Herb Levy, Periplum Records


PRESS QUOTE
"There is the sense of field recordings and yet, compositionally, there is also an insistence of academic modernism."
Jon Gierlich, International Examiner

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CREATIVE TEAM
Karen Akada (voice, taiko, gong, rattle)
Byron Au Yong (composer, voice, taiko, gong, er-hu)
David Crandall and Yukie Iotomi (noh voice)
David Goldman (clay flute, taiko, dhung chen)

Frank Minoru Phillips (tabla, trombone, clay flute, taiko)
Greg Ohme (euphonium)
Peter Joon Park (dhung chen)
Dennis Staskowski (string bass)
Aiko Shimada (voice)
Hanz Araki (Irish flute, whistle, shakuhachi)
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel (shakuhachi)

Doug Haire (audio engineer)

Released January 2001