Jazz Articles about Eivind Aarset

Eivind Aarset: Sonic Codex

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 3, 2008

Dal tanto chiacchierato album d'esordio Electronic Noire (uscito in un momento di grande fermento per il Nu-Jazz norvegese, in contemporanea con Khmer e New Conception of Jazz degli amici Nils Petter Molvaer e Bugge Wesseltoft) a oggi, sono trascorsi 10 anni, e I>Sonic Codex è il quarto lavoro da solista del chitarrista norvegese Eivind Aarset. Con quest'album sembra togliersi definitivamente di dosso l'ombra di Molvaer, tanto presente nei primi due lavori. Sonic Codex mantiene la cifra stilistica “noir" del leader, ...

Eivind Aarset: Sonic Codex

by John Kelman
September 28, 2007

While there are still plenty of the signposts that make this an Eivind Aarset album, Sonic Codex represents some significant changes for a Norwegian artist who has become the most important (and in demand) guitarist to emerge from Scandinavia since Terje Rypdal in the early 1970s.

While Aarset's almost pathological avoidance of conventional guitar tones--and familiar rhythmic and harmonic approaches--remains intact from earlier albums including Connected (Jazzland, 2004), Sonic Codex does have some of his most ...

Lars Danielsson: Melange Bleu

by John Kelman
April 21, 2007

Music--improvised or scored--is inextricably linked with how it's arranged or orchestrated, a point made crystal clear by Lars Danielsson's Mélange Bleu. The bonus track on the Swedish bassist/cellist/ pianist's Libera Me (ACT, 2004) hinted at the direction Danielsson would take on Mélange Blue--a blending of acoustic instruments, concert orchestra and technology to create a lush new mix (or Mélange) that retains Danielsson's innate lyricism, but places it in the sonic realm of Nu Jazz. With some of ...

Lars Danielsson: Mélange Bleu

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 31, 2007

Ormai lanciato sulla strada di altri scandinavi, come Nils Petter Molvaer e Bugge Wesseltoft (non a caso presenti nell’organico), il contrabbassista, violoncellista e pianista Lars Danielsson si spinge un po’ oltre il precedente lavoro Libera me (clicca qui per leggerne la recensione) e mette in scena un album molto artefatto, elettrificato e ricreato in studio (il mitico Rainbow Studio di Oslo, sotto la supervisione dell’ingegnere del suono Jan Erik Kongshaus). Ecco così che gli strumenti sono ampiamente sostituiti da sampler, ...

Eivind Aarset: Connected

by John Kelman
June 21, 2004

Some instrumentalists are concerned with the technical nature of their instrument, absorbing harmony, scales, chord relationships and other methods to shape their desired goal. Others become enamoured with the sonic possibilities of the instrument, investigating the colours and textures that can be created. For Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset it is all important. His chops-less approach to playing and clear interest in the guitar as orchestra would imply that technique is less important; but the unique language that he has developed ...

Eivind Aarset's Electronique Noire: Light Extracts

by John Eyles
March 1, 2002

Although it is recognisably from the Jazzland ECM-with-beats mold, because of its bass-heavy rhythms and grooves, guitarist Eivind Aarset's follow-up to Electronique Noire (Jazzland, 1998) definitely sounds like a muso's album. Aarset is happy to discuss his roots in Hendrix, heavy metal, fusion and ECM--elements that combined with the Jazzland ethos to give his debut album its unique sound, and caused it to attract comparisons with electric Miles.

Here, those factors are more integrated into a seamless whole. ...