PASSIVE/AGRESSIVE REVIEW OF KYANESS
Skilfully articulations of our music from Macon Holt at Passive Aggressive:
"It is through the labours of Efstathiou and Dyrnes – their years of training in those classical traditions that are often taken to unambiguously show the superiority of European civilisation, and which were subsequently reappropriated by modernists to question this assertion following a half-century of carnage at home – that the materiality of sound is set to a different task. By coming in to contact and dialogue with each other – two people from opposite corners, and radically different fortunes, of this self-important landmass (Greece and Norway) – with their training and with the objects of their trade, and with the torment implied by virtuosity, Efstathiou and Dyrnes expose the mechanics of ruination that haunt the present even as they are obscured. “Kyaness” puts subjects and objects in contact with each other in such a way that calls into question the supposed utilitarian virtue of their separation by resonating, through the world before us, with the ruins to come."
Read the whole review here:
https://passiveaggressive.dk/feature/the-p-a-review-3/