Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic
Author: Stephen Graham
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Musicians: |
Jan Bang (syn, elec) |
Label: |
ECM |
Magazine Review Date: |
February/2013 |
Catalogue Number: |
3713657 |
RecordDate: |
2011 and 2012 |
Glacially slow and lingering Dream Logic's 11 tracks are mostly the work of Bang and Aarset although producer Erik Honoré, who recorded and mixed much of the album, is co-credited on ‘Surrender’, and ‘The Beauty of Decay’. With Aarset think the late Pete Cosey, think music from south east Asia, delivered at times via the use of a digital delay pedal, and you're half way there with the Norwegian, who in his youth was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis and Terje Rypdal. That trinity is interesting but a Venn diagram of all three does allow for the starting point that for those interested in finding Rypdal via Aarset, like say Finnish band Oddarrang, there is huge transformation possible in the air. It's the journey towards a sound in jazz no one has ever heard. It's fairly clear Aarset is an innovator of some clout, as Dream Logic – his finest work to date – strongly suggests. The most significant jazz album to come out of Norway since Khmer in the late-1990s.

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