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Album Review

Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

Read "Dream Logic" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The ingredients are all electric on guitarist Eivind Aarset's Dream Logic: plugged-in guitar and bass; programming; samples; dictophone; and electronics. The resulting atmospheric layering of sound with subtle dynamics and inorganic drones could be described as sterile, but what a beautiful, mysterious sterility it is.The Norwegian guitarist has contributed to several ECM Records recordings, including trumpeter Jon Hassell's Last Night the Moon Came Came Dropping Its Clothes on the Street (2009) and trumpeter Arve Henriksen's Cartography (2008), to ...

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Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic

Read "Dream Logic" reviewed by John Kelman


With the exception of trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær and singer Sidsel Endresen--who each left the label after contributing two fine albums as leaders--there seems to be an increasing number of Norwegian artists who, after establishing themselves on smaller labels, are gaining greater international exposure by moving to the venerable ECM label. Trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Cartography (2008) is one; Food, featuring percussionist Thomas Strønen, is another, with Quiet Inlet (2010); and The Source's eponymous 2006 release, yet another.Now ...

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Eivind Aarset: Guitar Anti-Hero

Read "Eivind Aarset: Guitar Anti-Hero" reviewed by John Kelman


In a time when the interactive video game Guitar Hero is selling in the millions, Eivind Aarset is, in many ways, the Guitar Anti-Hero. Despite making music that could easily lend itself to the kind of guitar pyrotechnics that are so often the litmus test of a good player, Aarset's emphasis is on texture, on melody, on groove, and on a kind of collective improvisation that's been reshaping and redefining what jazz can be since he released his first album ...

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Eivind Aarset & The Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts

Read "Live Extracts" reviewed by John Kelman


For his fifth album as a leader, Norwegian guitar phenom Eivind Aarset captures the improvisational power and prowess of his expanded Sonic Codex Orchestra. Live Extracts, culled from six different venues over the course of the past year. With minimal editing and no overdubs, this is as close to experiencing Aarset in performance as many will get, and for that reason alone is worthy of attention.Aarset, interviewed recently at All About Jazz, may be more Guitar Anti-Hero than ...

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Carsten Lindholm: Tribute

Read "Tribute" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il titolo Tribute è riferito alle persone - musicisti e non - che hanno influito nella vita di Carsten Lindholm, come Bill Laswell, Sting e molti altri. In questo lavoro, registrato tra Oslo e Copenhagen, il batterista e compositore danese coinvolge musicisti di varia estreazione stilistica per dar vita a un ottimo connubio di jazz - qui inteso come libertà formale e creativa - e musica elettronica. Una sintesi che porta risultati concreti già nell'opener “3D," brano caratterizzato da atmosfere ...

Album Review

Eivind Aarset & The Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts

Read "Live Extracts" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Recentemente, Eivind Aarset ha partecipato al nostro questionario di Proust. Tra il serio e il faceto, il chitarrista ci ha confessato che la sua paura più grande è “che il pubblico alla fine capisca quanto sono incompetente" e che il suo motto è “potrebbe funzionare". Queste risposte non dimostrano solo un senso dell'understatement, e dell'umorismo, tipicamente nordico. Sono, in realtà, rivelatrici anche del carattere profondo della musica di Aarset, tanto affascinante quanto sfuggente. Impossibile infatti utilizzare, per Aarset in generale ...

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Nils Petter Molvaer: Hamada

Read "Hamada" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Disco di apparente continuità, ma di effettivo cambio di direzione rispetto al precedente Er, questo Hamada. A farsi notare da subito è la riduzione di ritmo, elettronica e dj; le sonorità sono assai più vicine alle musiche per film di Re-Vision ma con un filo narrativo più efficace e compiuto che finisce per conferire maggiore solidità e creatività al lavoro. Erano ormai quattro anni che Molvaer non realizzava un lavoro nuovo - Re-Vision era il frutto dell'assemblaggio di alcune colonne ...


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