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Jessica Kenney

Jessika Kenney is an experimental composer, vocalist, and teacher. Her work spans multiple genres, drawing from vocal and literary traditions of Iran and Indonesia while exploring innovations in interpretation and performance. She is a graduate of the Cornish College of the Arts,[3] where she is now a member of the voice faculty.Kenney lives in Seattle with her husband and artistic collaborator Eyvind Kang

Jessika Kenney is an experimental composer, vocalist, and teacher. Her work spans multiple genres, drawing from vocal and literary traditions of Iran and Indonesia while exploring innovations in interpretation and performance. She is a graduate of the Cornish College of the Arts,[3] where she is now a member of the voice faculty.Kenney lives in Seattle with her husband and artistic collaborator Eyvind Kang

Atria
LP edition of 300 copies, in custom printed tri-tone jackets with oversized LP booklet containing scores and translations, and hands-tamped LP labels. Album art by Jessika Kenney and Faith Coloccia. This is Jessika Kenney’s first solo release following collaborations and recordings with artists such as Eyvind Kang, Gamelan Pacifica, Hossein Omoumi, Jarrad Powell, Ellen Fullman, Oren Ambarchi, Asva, Gamelan Madu Sari, Sun City Girls, Sunn O))), The Black Cat Orchestra, Mamiffer, Wolves in the Thr…
At Temple Gate
At Temple Gate" immerses you in a kind of shamanism of which the echo has long since been lost. The modal ancestry and the power of electronic soundscapes in the album reveals a duality, an incantation at the threshold of death. The Sound is what immediately strikes the listener, even before the Logos, the word, the music itself: to listen to "at Temple Gate" is an experience a kind of sonic ritual.It is not the dead, these deities, who are terrifying, but the living and their ever more ardent d…
The Face of the Earth
The second beautiful album by the duo of Jessika Kenney -- a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of Persian vocal traditions -- and Eyvind Kang -- a violist for whom the act of music and learning is a spiritual discipline. All tracks were composed by Kenney (voice, percussion, electronics) and Kang (viola, setar, electronics). "The Central Javanese Wangsalan is a kind of riddle (two lines, twelve syllables each, divided 4 and 8 ), sung by the…
Aestuarium
few available, sold out at source: Aestuarium is a meditation on a psalm of lamentation and the unary tone in the metaphor of salt and fresh water, inspired by Gaelic psalmery, Tibetan notational gestures, and the microtonality of the tetrachord. Recorded on the shore of Colvos Passage in 2005 by renowned engineer Mell Dettmer. Jessika Kenney is a vocalist known for her haunting timbral sense, as well as her profound interpretation of vocal traditions. Eyvind Kang is a violist for whom the a…
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