Drums ... voice ... music ... electronics ... stories ... Scottish ... cross-cultural ... jazz ... improvised ... folk ... shamanic music ... avant-stuff ... with collaborators from Scotland ...Ireland ... Russia ... Brazil ... Tuva ...USA ... Italy ...Tibet ...Japan ... Siberia ... South Africa ... European places including England ...

"Hyder's
debut record - Dreaming of Glenisla recorded 1975 - sounds for
all the world like an
Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass. The twin sax/twin bass lineup
of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as
the sound of Ayler's dreams."
Doug Schulkind, WFMU
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"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."

Shaman's mountain-top ritual in Tuva

Bardo State Orchestra with Tibetan monks


An ideal rhythm section ...
You can e-mail me at ken@hyder.demon.co.uk