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- Kevin Volans
Asanga (1997)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Preview performance 12 June 1998, Deutsches Theater, Berlin
Dedicated to Robin Schulkowsky
- perc
- 8 min
- 26th May 2025, Wigmore Hall, London, United Kingdom
Programme Note
The Sanskrit title Asanga means 'freedom from attachment' I wrote the piece as a gift for Robyn Schulkowsky on the death of her father. It was written with no conscious techniques or concept. The first performance was in Stockholm in 1998.
Kevin Volans
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Reviews
I mean no disrespect to other percussionists when I say that Axelsson is the most extraordinary drummer I have seen, or to other composers when I say that She who Sleeps with a Small Blanket (1985) and Asanga (1998) are the most extraordinary works: ferocious, lyrical and human.
8th November 2009
[The] recital was a showcase of Volans' imagination, his ability to draw an almost infinite array of patterns and effects from a relatively limited range of unpitched instruments. The 1985 She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket is already a bit of a classic. The brief and violent Asanga (1997), however, and the expansive and wonderfully intricate Akrodha (1998) are not so well known, but clearly should be.
24th November 2004
Discography
Jonny Axelsson Plays Volans & Sharman
- Labelj a p r
- SoloistJonny Axelsson
- Released31st January 2011