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Peder Simonsen & Jo David Meyer Lysne: Spektralmaskin

by Glenn Astarita
Strap yourselves in, spectral travelers, for a journey into the sonic labyrinth that is Peder Simonsen and Jo David Meyer Lysne's Spektralmaskin. This album is not background music for folding laundry. Simonsen and Lysne weave a tapestry of sound that is both unsettling and strangely beautiful. Imagine a haunted music box possessed by a playful but melancholic ghost. Per the press release: (The word spektralmaskin, Norwegian for 'spectral machine,' is Lysne and Simonsen's attempt to encapsulate the e-bow ...
Continue ReadingStreifenjunko: Like Driving

by Glenn Astarita
The artists' first venture into the world of electronics is quietly mesmerizing and off the beaten path as some would say. Espen Reinertsen (saxophone) and Eivind Lønning (trumpet)'s previous albums, No Longer Burning (SOFA, 2009) and Sval Torv (SOFA, 2012), were acoustic sound-sculpting endeavors. And both musicians have performed together in pianist Christian Wallumrød's ensemble. On this release they rewind the clock and come up with a solid game-plan during the album inception, while not totally entrenched in a conventional ...
Continue ReadingErik Nylanders Orkester: A Festa Vale Tudo

by AAJ Italy Staff
A nord spira un vento fertile. Lui è norvegese e ha maturato esperienze in talmente tanti ambiti musicali da riuscire a confezionare un album dai numerosissimi apparentamenti e sostanzialmente sfuggente a ogni tipo di catalogazione. Il suono nordico di Amiina, Mùm e Sigur Rós si fonde con la fantasia jazz di tempi spezzati e scomposti, debordando però in ampi echi post-rock. Elettricità, ambiente, interpolazioni al limite del rumorismo, caldi fiati, percussioni dal respiro multietnico. C'è più di un mondo nelle ...
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