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About Jo David Meyer Lysne
Instrument: Guitar, acoustic
Jo David Meyer Lysne: For Renstemt Klaver
by John Eyles
For as long as it has existed, it seems as if the piano has been subject to opinions and experiments of various types. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the player piano was a popular self-playing piano with a mechanism that operated the piano action using perforated paper or metallic rolls to play popular tunes.Later on, it became more fashionable for pianists to play inside the piano lid, for example by striking or plucking strings, by ...
Continue ReadingPeder 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 ReadingJo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen: Meander
by Mark Sullivan
Norwegian guitarist Jo David Meyer Lysne and double bassist Mats Eilertsen make their debut as a duo here. Meyer Lysne is a young player with a very individual approach to the acoustic guitar; Eilertsen is a veteran with over a hundred recordings on his resume, experience that really helps to bring Meyer Lysne's concepts into focus. This is an acoustic project at its core, but both performers also employ electronic effects to expand the possibilities of their instruments. Recording and ...
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