Eivind Aarset - Connected (2004)

"Connected" marked yet another leap up on Aarset's evolutionary ladder and sits like a prelude to a manifesto. "Connected" perfectly captures Aarset's working method. His musical world is uniquely his, and the vocabulary of his guitar describes it as no one else could. The music has become self-referential, yet manages to retain warmth and openness. The overtly club music aspects of the sound have been fully consumed, and are accompanied by a new glitchiness, courtesy of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré and Raymond Pellicer. Aarset's reflexivity progresses boldly, offering "Changing Waltz", a variation and re-visioning of "Empathic Guitar" from "Light Extracts". Unburdened by the history of electric guitar and guitarists, Aarset erases any of the potential egoism of being a guitarist with a Zen-like calm in favour of stronger musical statements. In addition to Hans Ulrik's clarinet comes Dhafer Youssef's oud and voice, bringing the electronic and the acoustic to a new equilibrium rarely achieved.



Tracks:


*01.- Family Pictures 1
*02.- Electro Magnetic In E
*03.- Connectic
*04.- Feverish
*05.- Silk Worm
*06.- Nagabo Tomora
*07.- Blue In E
*08.- Transmission
*09.- Family Pictures 2
*10.- Changing Waltz



Personnel:

*Eivind Aarset: guitars, electronics, programming, different noises, bass
*Jan Bang: sampler, dictaphone
*Erik Honoré: mix, engineering
*Wetle Holte: drums, programming, electronic drums, different noises, keyboards, programming, drum machine FX
*Marius Reksjo: acoustic bass, electric bass, synthesizer noise, synthesizer FX
*Hans Ulrik: bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, clef noise
*Pal "Strangefruit" Nyhus: turntables
*Rune Arnesen: percussion
*Raymond Pellicer: computer FX, programming
*Dhafer Youssef: vocal, oud







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