release date: 24.09.2021 on JazzLand Recordings
“Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey“, the new album by the The Eivind Aarset 4-Tet, is set for release on Jazzland Recordings on 2LP / CD / DL.
Featuring Eivind Aarset, Wetle Holt, Erland Dahlen and Audun Erlien the album is augmented by Jan Bang, John Derek Bishop (aka Tortusa) and Arve Henriksen.
To be released at Punkt 2021, Phantasmagoria or A Different Kind of Journey features traditional
The compositions can be straightforward instrumentals with a heavy groove, rhapsodic tone poems, quasi-ambient jazz, expressionistic campaigns of sonic annihilation, delicate variations and improvisational explorations built upon melody and harmony, and often a combination of any or all of the above.
Phantasmagoria… is an album that delivers a multifaceted experience: a soundtrack to an inner journey of remembered or imaginary landscapes and spaces; a travelogue of musical styles, sounds and eras; a simulacrum of the touring experience. This album, perhaps more than any of his previous releases, is one that proudly and confidently wears Aarset’s influences on it’s sleeve; a move that serves to underline how he is more than the sum of those influences. This latest chapter in his weaving of the unified tapestry of his career shows how Aarset is capable of finding new threads in unexpected colors of colors, of innovation and reinvention.
2LP / CD / DL | 17th September 2021/Norway ; 24th September 2021/Norway
Jazzland Recordings | 377 939 2 (2LP) / 1 (CD)
Line up:
EIVIND AARSET : Guitar / Electronics / Edits
ERLAND DAHLEN : Drums / Percussion / Logdrum / Vibraphone (+ drum programming on Soft Grey)
AUDUN ERLIEN : Bass (+ Casio Synth on Intoxication)
WETLE HOLT : Drums / Percussion / Metallophone (+ drum programming & Mellotron on Outbound + Organ on Manta Ray)
guests
JAN BANG : Samples on Manta Ray, Didn’t See This One Coming & Soft Grey Ghost
JOHN DEREK BISHOP [TORTUSA] : Field Recordings + Treatment on Manta Ray & Sanzu Ghost
ARVE HENRIKSEN : Trumpets on Manta Ray
Tracklist:
1. Intoxication (Aarset)
2. Pearl Hunter (Aarset)
3. Outbound (or) Stubbl (Holte / Aarset)
4. Duløc (or) The Cat’s Eye (Holte / Aarset)
5. Manta Ray (or) Soft Spot (Henriksen / Aarset)
6. Didn’t See This One Coming (Dahlen / Holte / Erlien / Aarset)
7. Soft Grey Ghosts (or) Twighlight Chamber (Aarset)
8. Inbound (or) Stubb2 (Holte/Aarset)
9. Light On Sanzu River (or) Dreaming of a Boat (Drecker/Aarset)
Music developed collectively by all participating musicians.
Light On Sanzu River is loosely based on Anneli Drecker’s song ‘Waiting For A Boat’
Produced by Eivind Aarset
Recorded & Mixed by Bjarne Stensli at Oslo Klang.
Additional recording at Punkt Studio / Skogen Studio / Sus / Oslo Lydbruk & Eivind’s Home studio