Anyone who has seen and heard Korean improviser/composer Okkyung Lee blow collective minds with her supremely amazing cello noise, energy, vibration, friction and true sound feeling music knows that in a world of wild and mind-snapping improvisors Okkyung is one of the most exciting players to arrive down the rocky road in some time.

After being in music schools from age of 3 to 25 Okkyung found her artistic freedom in NYC’s lower east side where she moved in 2000.    
Since then, she has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Laurie Anderson, Derek Bailey, Steve Beresford, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Fred Frith, Shelley Hirsch, Susie Ibarra, Thurston Moore, "Butch" Morris, Jim O'Rourke, Beth Orton, Christian Marclay, Ikue Mori, DJ Olive, Zeena Parkins, Marina Rosenfeld, and John Zorn.

    Okkyung released her debut CD, Nihm, on Tzadik; a duo recording with Christian Marclay on My Cat is an Alien label's split LP series called Rubbings, a CD of her own compositions in collaboration with artist Colin Stinson for his art book Dust to Dust, and now this solo cello vinyl-only LP I SAW THE GHOST OF AN UNKNOWN SOUL AND IT SAID...

    Her performances have been featured in the Whitney Biennial 2006, BAM Next Wave Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion, Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Festival, Taktlos Festival and La Biennale di Venezia.

    This LP contains some of her most deep and resonant, at once furious and hushed string, bow and wood music recorded to date. Beautiful and frightening, daring to be both.