On the new album from Norwegian
guitarist, Eivind Aarset, it says that he plays guitars, bass guitar,
electronics, percussion, samples and programming. He is only man on the album
and free to choose just want he wants.
Well, he is almost alone: producer
Jan Bang (samples, programming, Dictaphone) is an important part of the music.
As a teenager the musical starting
point of Eivind Aarset was Jimi Hendrix.
Since, he was drawn by the wild and
electric Miles Davis on Agartha, and then started listening to people like
Terje Rypdal and Jan Gabarek. Which make sense in the understanding of the
ECM-debut in Aarset's own name.
Dream Logic is ethereal
sound-paintings which float along. And Aarset himself has a firm grip in the
music to make sure it doesn’t float away.
Compositions of this kind with its
heavy use of electronics very often becomes typical of its time, but Aarset and
especially Jan Bang has the ability to add something uninhibited and organic
growing to the music which lifts it out of its conventions.
Dream Logic is a highly recommended
album.
player.ecmrecords.com/eivind_aarset-dream_logic
Review: Niels Overgård. Translation: DSI Swinging Europe
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