FINLAND: Alvari Lume, free improviser, composer
Posted: August 13, 2011 by Deanna Elaine in ALVARI LUME, Deanna Elaine
Piowaty, Experimental Music, Interview, Music Reviews
“I hear colors,” says free improviser guitarist and composer, Jaakko
Savolainen. “White is a tense sound. Like waiting for something. Black is very
slow and the lowest sound. Red has everything inside of it. Think of all
possible feelings with their widest possible meanings! Passion!”
No surprise that this Finnish musician who records under the name, Alvari
Lune, is also a painter. But Savolainen says that while he typically painted with
vibrant colors when he was young, eventually the intense hues became too
much for him. “I started to feel them too strongly. I began feeling sick when
painting. So nowadays I mostly paint with black and white. I can use red
sometimes too. But when I was young, I painted big yellow paintings.”
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FINLAND: Alvari Lume, free improviser, composer
Posted: August 13, 2011 by Deanna Elaine in ALVARI LUME, Deanna Elaine
Piowaty, Experimental Music, Interview, Music Reviews
“I hear colors,” says free improviser guitarist and composer, Jaakko
Savolainen. “White is a tense sound. Like waiting for something. Black is very
slow and the lowest sound. Red has everything inside of it. Think of all
possible feelings with their widest possible meanings! Passion!”
No surprise that this Finnish musician who records under the name, Alvari
Lune, is also a painter. But Savolainen says that while he typically painted with
vibrant colors when he was young, eventually the intense hues became too
much for him. “I started to feel them too strongly. I began feeling sick when
painting. So nowadays I mostly paint with black and white. I can use red
sometimes too. But when I was young, I painted big yellow paintings.”
the sea below your feet
is a shape
of the sound
movements
on the empty road
vanishing
from the measure
to the measure
time
is a thought
a verbal creation
Can the rest of us learn to “see” music as Savolainen does? “I think it’s quite
about jumping into the unknown with all emotions. Closing eyes and feeling
with your heart more than ears can hear.”
Although classically trained in guitar and exposed while very young to
composers like J.S.Bach and Krystoff Penderecki, Savolainen says he never
liked to play “someone else’s music or to repeat music that is already done.”
For Jaakko it was all about the spontaneity of “wild free jazz recordings” such
as the likes of John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor. “I think it’s more about giving a
chance to the unexpected without resisting where music is going to take you.
Allowing yourself to follow the notes into the journey of unknown. Feeling
with your whole being without any limits.”
“Jaakko’s music is an emotional stream in constant evolution,” says Italian
composer, Emiliano Pietrini , who records under the name, Globoscuro,
“Jaakko’s radical improvisation is like an illumination. Images and sensations
evolving according to the rhythm that explodes from the heart of the
performer. A perpetual motion of inspiration. What you hear is a kind of
struggle: The thoughts expressed by each instrument fighting among
themselves. But it is a harmonic struggle harmonic. A quiet chaos…a shiny
madness.”
A shout that is quiet.. Soundless..
Is not silent.
It grows inwards
and is therefore
stronger
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http://combustus.wordpress.com/ weeblylink_new_windowAs the Audio
Gourmet netlabel catalog expands with the
weeks and
months
that pass, I am delighted to push the label in a new direction
with the
inclusion of this stunning EP from Finnish guitarist Alvari
Lume.
He also is responsible for running a successful experimental
music club
called TMK.
'Ennen' is part one of two EP releases for Audio Gourmet and
showcases
a
selection of three experimental guitar pieces I selected from
the artist's
Reverb Nation account. All of these tracks are past
productions and span
the
last few years of Alvari Lume's recordings. 'Ennen' means
'then' in Finnish
and
is an apt title given that the recordings are all selected
previous works
from
his catalog.
Fortcoming for the future will be the 'Nyt' EP, meaning 'now' in
Finnish; this
will feature a selection of pieces that Alvari Lume is working
on specifically
for the Audio Gourmet netlabel, to show where his music is at
currently.
Within the three experimental tracks on 'Ennen', your ears are
in for a
treat.
This is crafted entirely from the recorded sound of his live and
improvised
guitar and the fact that there is no additional electronic
manipulation is a
testament to his outstanding talent as a performer.
Here is Alvari Lume's Myspace page so that you may stay
informed of this
talented artist's plans for the future:
www.myspace.com/alvarilume
Stay tuned for more information of EP two from Alvari Lume,
'Nyt'...
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alvari lume - ALVARI LUME: It is quite a treat for these old
ears to behold
some of the sonic wonders (totally) available for your aural
pleasure these
days - just listen to one of my favorite pieces from Alvari,
"liquid violet"...
beautiful languid guitar over a "wash" background that will put
you in the
outer zone in a matter of only a few notes. Yet on "about
midnight", I'm
reminded of some of the antics my friend Ernesto Diaz-Infante
pulled off
with
me back in the late '90's, especially the acoustic guitar
stretches. If you
love
well-played and highly talented guitar with strong improvised
roots, you'll
have to have this gent's music, especially those like (my
favorite out of
these
35 or so songs) "sign of C"... some excellent tonal contrasts.
This isn't
music
for the uninitiated, though... if your ears are only looking for 4-
4 timing, with
no adventure, this probably won't be your cup of tea... my
ears are so
attuned
to what Alvari is doing that I feel like sitting right down at my
keyboard
(whoops, it hasn't arrived in Korea yet) to improvise my own
opus. I give
him
a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an "EQ" (energy
quotient) rating
of
4.96. Get more information by visiting him (& his music, many
of them
downloadable) at www.reverbnation.com/alvarilume Rotcod
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