Results for "Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang"

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères

by Mark Sullivan
September 13, 2016

This quartet came together at the suggestion of ECM label head Manfred Eicher after hearing a Punkt Festival recording of pianist Tigran Hamasyan in duo with live sampling musician Jan Bang. The addition of trumpeter Arve Henriksen and guitarist Eivind Aarset increased the textural possibilities, as well as providing a solo trumpet voice. Hamasyan was preparing ...

Tigran Hamasyan/Arve Henriksen/Eivind Aarset/Jan Bang: Atmosphères

by Karl Ackermann
September 2, 2016

Assembled at the invitation of ECM label-founder Manfred Eicher, pianist Tigran Hamasyan, trumpeter Arve Henriksen, guitarist Eivind Aarset and electronic sampling artist, Jan Bang came together for less than one half of a week in mid-2014 to create the double CD Atmosphères. There is a fair amount of inter-group history, Hamasyan being more the outsider but ...