''Light Extracts'' is an album by Norwegian guitarist
Eivind Aarset's Électronique Noire
Background
This is the second solo album by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset for
Bugge Wesseltoft
Jens Christian Bugge Wesseltoft (born 1 February 1964) is a Norwegian jazz pianist, composer, and producer, son of jazz guitarist Erik Wesseltoft.
Career
In 1989, Wesseltoft collaborated with the Knut Riisnæs Quartet and was soon after ...
's Jazzland label, and as a follow-up of the well received debut album ''Électronique Noire'', it had much to live up to, and did not disappoint. Also this time ambience and club rhythms are present, but the music lives a life of itself and has become a truly separate organism. ''Light Extracts'' is an album from the top shelf.
Thom Jurek, in his review of Aarset's album ''Light Extracts'' states:
Reception
The
AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek awarded the album 4.5 stars,
and the reviewer Terje Mosnes of the Norwegian newspaper
Dagbladet awarded the album dice 4.
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Track listing
#«Empathic Guitar» (4:25)
#«Wolf Extract» (8:20)
Bass Clarinet – Hans Ulrik
Electric piano – Arve Furset
Arve Eilif Furset (born 5 December 1964 in Askvoll, Western Norway) is a Norwegian composer, jazz musician (piano, keyboards) and music producer, known from a series of record releases and cooperations with the likes of Ernst-Wiggo Sandbakk, Kje ...
#«Dust Kittens» (5:26)
Arranging (co-arranging) – Nick Sillito
#«The String Thing» (7:40)
Electric bass – Eivind Aarset
#«Between Signal & Noise» (8:33)
Bass clarinet – Hans Ulrik
Hans Ulrik (born 28 September 1965) is a Danish jazz saxophonist and composer who has recorded with Gary Peacock, Adam Nussbaum, Niels Lan Doky, Audun Kleive, Marilyn Mazur, John Scofield, and Steve Swallow.
Career
Ulrik studied jazz sax ...
Electric piano – Arve Furset
#«Ffwd / Slow Motion» (6:23)
#«Self Defence» (4:33)
Composer – Eivind Aarset, Marius Reksjø
Marius Julian Reksjø (born 3 October 1973 in Horten, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (upright bass), known from cooperation within Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland Community and the band Beady Belle with his wife Beate S. Lech.
Career
Reksj ...
& Wetle Holte
Wetle Holte (born 4 September 1973) is a Norwegian drummer and composer known for his collaborations with Silje Neergård, Kirsti Huke, Eivind Aarset, Wibutee, Bugge Wesseltoft, Anja Garbarek, and others.
Life and career
Holte was born in Ski ...
#«Tunnel Church» (6:44)
Trumpet – Nils Petter Molvær
Credits
*Drums, drum programming, electronics – Wetle Holte
*Electric bass, acoustic bass – Marius Reksjø (tracks: 1-3, 5-7)
*Electronics, mixing – Reidar Skår
*Guitar, fretless guitar, electronics, programming, edition – Eivind Aarset
*Mastering – Mikkel Schille
*Photography (cover photos) – Fin Serck-Hanssen
*Recording – Eivind Aarset & Reidar Skår
*Composer – Eivind Aarset (tracks: 1-6, 8)
*Cover design – www.kornstad.com
Notes
*Recorded at 7 Etg. and at home
*Mastered at Lydmuren
References
External links
Eivind Aarset Official Website
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Eivind Aarset albums
1998 albums