Okkyung Lee: Just Like Any Other Day

The experimental musician about her most accessible album yet

Okkyung Lee is a musical shape-shifter. For a large portion of her 25-year career, the South Korean cellist was associated with New York City’s free improv scene, collaborating and playing with everyone from Derek Bailey to Fred Frith, Thurston Moore to Jim O’Rourke, Wadada Leo Smith to John Zorn.

Only when hearing her perform live, you will truly exper…