Ken Hyder
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 ...

 





Pic by Tara Darby

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What's New
Biography

K-Space

Current Projects ( Real-Time,Hoots&Roots,Hyder/Miller duo, Raz3, Hyder/Macdonald ,Shams)
Projects ( Siberia Extreme/Bardo State Orchestra,Due Corvi )
Instant Jukebox - (RealAudio & MP3)
Discography
Profile from The Wire magazine
Quotes
Shamanic music trip - Tuva 2000
Radical Transcultural Initiatives
The Road To Erzin (article)
Guest Book and Links
Kara-Ool Tuvan shaman
Going Up - Extended Sleevenotes

 

New alterative website with extras

 

 K-Space MySpace page

 

Ken Hyder MySpace

"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."




Marc Medwin, Dusted Magazine (USA), on K-Space

"In a recent interview, Hyder remarked that shamanistic drumming has nothing to do with timekeeping; it is a means of accessing spiritual energy. Beyond all expectations, this recording actually touches that energy source - it is charged with visceral yet transcendent vibrations. Simply awesome."

Bill Tilland, BBC

Full review







Shaman's mountain-top ritual in Tuva



Bardo State Orchestra with Tibetan monks

 

K-Space on the steppe at the Tuva-Mongolia border

An ideal rhythm section ...

 

 

You can e-mail me at ken@hyder.demon.co.uk