NKM014
Goh Lee Kwang & Christian Meaas Svendsen
Gibberish, Balderdash and Drivel
Artist: Goh Lee Kwang & Christian Meaas Svendsen
Album title: Gibberish, balderdash and drivel
Label: Nakama Records
Catalog number: NKM014LP / NKM014CD
Release: 2nd March 2018
Formats and pricing:
- vinyl from €12
- CD from €5
Shipping:
- From Norway to Norway
- From Slovenia to EU and rest of the world
Press
Gibberish, balderdash and drivel consists of three nonsensical musical conversations between Malaysian nylon guitar player Goh Lee Kwang and Norwegian bass player Christian Meeas Svendsen.
The album was recorded in an independent art gallery close to Kuala Lumpur with a handheld device. It tells us the story of the first encounter between two different mindsets, nationalities and generations trying - and totally failing at - making any sensible dialogue with their respective musical languages.
Still, the music flows unobstructed, blissfully ignorant of the lack of mutual understanding. It is like water running through rough terrain. It doesn’t pause, it doesn’t quarry or question why. It just moves on to the next thing, then the next, then the next. The music sporadically taps into graspable and palpable ponds of understandable gestures and musical interplay, but doesn’t dwell or linger. It doesn’t dig deeper once it has hit a spot, or analyze the current moment to draw more out of it. On the contrary, the dialogue here seems to be one of no-intention. Any meaning is created only by our habitual convention of action and reaction, of recognizable patterns.
Further still there is a musical integrity at play which stands firm on its own ground. It’s just that the music on this record does not try to make sense of it all. The music is talking about trivial things - about the weather, about the noise from the city, about… whatever. No conclusion needed. Just listen closely and ask yourself: does your skin connect you or separate you from the rest of the world?
A leud of wild silliness that ought to be encouraged
- Stuart Bruce, Chain D.L.K.
The correspondences arising seem to be launched from the very intimate refuse of ordinary musical structures
- neural
Artist bio
Goh Lee Kwang has since long been a potent agent on the Kuala Lumpur scene, frequently releasing music since 2001. He works in the field of improvised music, his main instrument being his own imagination.
Christian Meaas Svendsen is a bass player with many musical facets working with everything from contemporary music to the free improvisation.
Credits
Goh Lee Kwang - nylon guitar
Christian Meaas Svendsen - double bass
Recording - Christian Meaas Svendsen
Mix - Goh Lee Kwang
Master - Christian Obermayer
Cover design - Mikkel Cappelen Smith
Goh / Christian