Dream Logic

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Release Date: 12th Nov 2012
Catalogue No: 3713657
Label: ECM
Length: 47 minutes

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Eivind Aarset: Close (For Comfort)

Work length6:34

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Tjernsbråtan, Norway

Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset: Surrender

Work length4:21

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset: Jukai (Sea Of Trees)

Work length3:45

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset: Black Silence

Work length4:03

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset: Active

Work length3:20

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Eivind Aarset: Close

Work length2:39

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Tjernsbråtan, Norway

Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset: Reactive

Work length2:21

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Eivind Aarset: Homage To Greene

Work length5:29

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Tjernsbråtan, Norway

Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset: The Whispering Forest

Work length5:42

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

Eivind Aarset: Close

Work length1:43

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Tjernsbråtan, Norway

Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset: The Beauty Of Decay

Work length7:06

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Eivind Aarset (guitar)
Recorded: 2012
Recording Venue: Punkt Studio, Kristiansand

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The renowned Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset - who has contributed to a number of influential ECM recordings by Nils Petter Molvær, Marilyn Mazur, Arve Henriksen, Andy Sheppard, Arild Andersen and Jon Hassell - makes his first 'leader' disc for the label. Dream Logic is aptly named, its slowly developing drifting pieces, built up from layers of guitars, have an almost hallucinatory quality, an otherworldly ambience.

Rhythms are as liquid as Aarset's phrasing. It is an album of sound-painting which begins with guitar but goes beyond it, moving in mysterious waves. Jan Bang, who is co-composer of a number of the pieces, also contributes sounds and samples, and was the recording producer for sessions at Tjernsbraten, Punkt and Rainbow Studios, aided by frequent collaborator Erik Honoré.

In the pieces Aarset's guitar is the starting point, with guitar lines, melodies and textures slowly opened up through the discreet use of samples and programming, developing and expanding the emotional core of the material. Transition points between guitar and electronics are blurred; one is an extension of the other. And Aarset has long since learned to make musical use of his pedals and effects boxes, applying delays and feedback to create a very singing line, ricocheting in a reverberant hall of mirrors to create a sense of deep space. Associations abound: the dark drones of the album's longest piece, 'The Beauty of Decay', for instance, might suggest affinities with Indian vocal music or perhaps with the world of the Indian-inspired Jon Hassell, whom Aarset has acknowledged as an important source.

Eivind Aarset can also be heard on Mercurial Balm, the second ECM album by Food, the improvising project of drummer Thomas Strønen and saxophonist Iain Ballamy, which is released simultaneously.

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