Jessika Kenney & Eyvind Kang – Azure (LP)

Ideologic Organ Music is pleased to have the opportunity to work again with a third beautiful album by the duo of Jessika Kenney — a vocalist and composer at a unique intersection haptic and aural sensibilities, and Eyvind Kang — composer and violist here exploring tonality on an expanded definition of string harmonics via viola d’amore, as a result of a deep period of renewed studies with Dr. N. Rajam. The duo take an extended return to their hypnotic unison music in their most pared-down recording since their 2011 LP “The face of the earth”. Compositions on this album belie a sensation of minimalism, in fact being a design of temporality and drift, like a haze of light across the sky. The morning followed after watching the moon, then the sea. They matched and observed in exact traces of feeling, timbre and sensibility—profound calmness in arcs of tonal colour.”The title “Azure” is a pun on the Persian “az u” or “from them