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Aarset, Eivind

Release Date: 25 February 2002
Format: CD Album

£11.99

Guitarist Eivind Aarset, one of the most exciting, individual and creative voices from the Norwegian jazz underground, saw 'Electronique Noir,' his first release as a leader, hailed as 'One of the best post Miles electric jazz albums' by none other than the "The New York Times" as well as America's leading jazz magazine "Jazz Times" and the UK's "Jazzwise." Now "Light Extracts," his much anticipated follow up album, is set to establish Eivind as one of the key voices in European Nu-Jazz. Once again his music is a here-and-now reflection of the latest, most exciting sounds to be found in jazz, mixing improvisation with rhythms from European club culture, exploring the potential of a music so new it has not yet set any frontiers or rules and the only limits are the limits of the imagination. One of Norway's most in demand guitarists, Eivind is a regular member of Nils Petter Molvaer's group, appearing on the trumpeter's landmark albums 'Khmer' and 'Solid Ether' which first introduced Europe to the sound of the Norwegian jazz underground (Molvaer makes a guest appearance on "Light Extracts"). Away from Molver, Eivind has appeared on over 150 albums with musicians as diverse as Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjornstadt, Mike Mainieri, Arlid Andersen, Abraham Laboriel and Django Bates. Two key tracks on "Light Extracts" is 'Empatische Guitarren' with a stunning crossfade into 'Wolf Extract' that sets the scene for a creative masterpiece. Yet all the while there is no doubt this music is following a fresh path into a yet to be discovered consciousness beyond consciousness, creating a new order of jazz sounds and tribal rhythms that fuses new tastes with old.
Guitarist Eivind Aarset's soundscapes sound like Bitches Brew updated into club fusion on an Afro-Asian dancefloor: not just random samples – with sonic threads evolving throughout, this is the thinking man's chill-out music.
Track Listing
1. Empathic Guitar
2. Wolf Extract
3. Dust Kittens
4. The String Thing
5. Between Signal & Noise
6. Ffwd/ Slow Motion
7. Self Defence
8. Tunnel Church