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ZENSHIP
Tanya Evanson
"Tanya Evanson's fourth album, released this month, is the wonderfully experimental and deeply spiritual Zenship. An album of poetics, trance and jazz, Zenship is inspired by the Ten Bulls progression of short poems and images used in Zen Buddhism to illustrate the stages of a practitioners progression towards enlightenment. The calf or the bull or ox, is a metaphor essentially for meditation practice. The verses, by Kuò?n Sh?yu?n, were also inspirations for John Cage." - Lisa Greenaway/DJ Lapkat
TANYA EVANSON (text, vocals), NINA SEGALOWITZ (Inuit throat singing), CAULDER NASH (keys, programming), MARK HAYNES (electric bass), ZIYA TABASSIAN (Persian percussion).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
© 2016 by Tanya Evanson / Mother Tongue Media
Language for gods
Tanya Evanson
Poetics + dub + jazz + experimental soundz exploring concepts of family, mythology, dialect, silence and technology. A global collaboration between TANYA EVANSON, BRIFO (formerly of Gotan Project, France), JERRY THE CAT (US), LISBON ALIEN ORCHESTRA (Portugal), LINX (Trinidad-Canada) and STEFAN SMULOVITZ (Canada).
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
© 2012 by Tanya Evanson / Mother Tongue Media
the memorists
Tanya Evanson
Poetry with music jewels of Jazz, Africa, Anatolia & Arabia. These are bridges between East and West, Language and Music. Based on work written during four years living in Istanbul, Turkey, and featuring collaborations with members of Mercan Dede: GÖKSEL BAKTAGIR, AYKUT SÜTOGLU, ONUR IL, YUNUS BALCIOGLU and BURAK MALÇOK and well-known Vancouver Jazz, Funk and World Music artists PEPE DANZA, SAM SHOICHET, LINX, CARLOS JOE COSTA and SERWAN YAMOLKY. Recorded in Istanbul, Turkey by Serkan Alkan and in Vancouver, Canada by William Benavides of Somos Music.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
© 2008 by Tanya Evanson / Mother Tongue Media
Invisible world
tanya evanson
Launched in 2004 at Cafe Montmartre in Vancouver BC, Canada, featuring original poems, songs, stories and traditional prayers in a rich context of African, Latin American, Jazz, Arabic and Hip Hop. Based on work written during extensive world travels, it features collaborations with a wide cultural spectrum of Canadian musicians in the spirit of Spoken World Music: CARLOS JOE COSTA, JOHN HOWARD, C.R. AVERY, EMAD ARMOUSH, SERWAN YAMOLKY, TIM GERWING and PEPE DANZA.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
© 2004 by Tanya Evanson / Mother Tongue Media