''Live Extracts'' is an album by Norwegian guitarist

Eivind Aarset Eivind Aarset (born 23 March 1961) is a Norwegian guitarist who has worked with Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Ute Lemper, Ketil Bjørnstad, Andy Sheppard, Mike Mainieri, Arild Andersen, Abraham Laboriel, Dhafer Youssef, Django Bates, and Nils ...

& The Sonic Codex Orchestra.

Review

Aarset's fifth album as a leader embraces the improvisational power and skill of the expanded Sonic Codex Orchestra.

All About Jazz ''All About Jazz'' is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, ''Jazz Near ...

critique Critique is a method of disciplined, systematic study of a written or oral discourse. Although critique is commonly understood as fault finding and negative judgment,Rodolphe Gasché (2007''The honor of thinking: critique, theory, philosophy''p ...

John Kelman, in his review of Aarset's album ''Live Extracts'' states: Here the band offer live versions of tunes that differ markedly from recordings on previous studio albums, yet maintain the essential characteristics that are the hallmark of Aarset's music: controlled floating threads that bind together the strong melodies and abstract soundscapes, shaded, ominous atmospheres suffused with deep, subtle colours.

Reception

The ''

BBC Music Magazine ''BBC Music Magazine'' is a British monthly magazine that focuses primarily on classical music. History The first issue appeared in September 1992. BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the BBC was the original owner and publisher toget ...

'' review awarded the album 5 stars for performance and 4 stars for sound, and ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...

'' review awarded the album 3 stars.

Track listing

#«Electromoers» (2:16) #«Electromagnetic» (10:20) #«Still Changing» (7:54)
Drums –

Torstein Lofthus Torstein Lofthus (born 10 March 1977) is a Norwegian drummer and composer who has been a member of the bands Shining, Elephant9, the Mathias Eick Band, D'Sound, and Ebersson/Zanussi/Lofthus. He is married to Hege Lofthus. Career Lofthus has ...

Saxophone –

Håkon Kornstad Håkon Games Kornstad (born 5 April 1977 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegian jazz musician (tenor saxophone, bass saxophone, flute and live looping) and classically trained singer (tenor), known from bands such as Wibutee and Kornstad Trio, and col ...

#«Drøbak Saray» (9:43) #«Murky Seven» (2:06) #«Sign Of Seven » (9:46) #«Blå Meis» (9:47)
Saxophone – Håkon Kornstad

Personnel

*Bass –

Audun Erlien Audun Erlien (born 22 February 1967 in Oslo, Norway) is a Norwegians, Norwegian jazz musician (bass guitar, guitar and electronica), known from several albums in various genres. Career Erlien was raised in Tønsberg, Norway, and has been a mu ...

*Drums, electronics & percussion –

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 ...

*Drums & percussion –

Erland Dahlen Erland Dahlen (born 15 May 1971 in Ulefoss, Norway) is a Norwegian drummer and percussionist. He is a member of several bands in the elektronika/jazz/experimental music genre, like "HET", "Boschamaz", "Kiruna", "Morris" and "Piston Ltd." Caree ...

(tracks: 1, 2, 5 to 7) *Guitar & electronics –

*Guitar & steel guitar (pedal steel) – Bjørn Charles Dreyer *Trumpet & synthesizer –

Gunnar Halle Gunnar Halle (born 11 August 1965) is a Norwegian association football, football manager and former player who played as a Defender (association football)#Full back, right back. He is the current assistant coach of Strømmen IF, Strømmen. Halle ...

(tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6)

Credits

*Artwork – Stoffer Ganes *Engineer (Casa Del Jazz) – Johnny Skalleberg *Engineer (Domicil, Dortmund) – Johnny Skalleberg *Engineer (Jazzfestival Saalfelden) – Martin Leitner, Øystein Karlsen *Engineer (Moers Festival) – Geir Østenjø & Reiner Kúhl *Engineer & recording (Leipziger Jazztage) – Øystein Karlsen *Mastering – Bjørn Engelmann *Mixing – Ulf Holand *Photography – Oliver Heisch *Producer – Eivind Aarset *Producer (Jazzfestival Saalfelden) – Franz Ruedel *Producer (Moers Festival) – Bernd Hoffman *Recording (Casa Del Jazz) – Ascanio Cusella *Recording (Domicil, Dortmund) – Fred Bauer *Recording (Erland's Rehearsal Space) – Johnny Skalleberg *Supervision (Moers Festival) – Georg Nihuesmann *Technician (Casa Del Jazz) – Marcello Fagnani *Written by Erlien, Dreyer, Aarset, Dahlen, Halle, Holte

Notes

*Live recordings from: *Track 1,2,5 & 6: Moers Festival, Festivalzelt *Track 3: Jazzfestival Saalfelden and Domicil, Dortmund *Track 4: Leipziger Jazztage and Casa Del Jazz, Rome *Track 7: Erland's rehearsal space *Mixed at Lydlab, mastered at Cutting Room
℗ 2010 Eivind Aarset
© 2010 Jazzland Recordings

References

{{Reflist

External links

Eivind Aarset - Live Extracts
on

Jazzland Recordings Jazzland Recordings is a Norwegian jazz and improvised music label based in Oslo, Norway, often associated with nu jazz. It was founded in 1996 by pianist Bugge Wesseltoft to release his "New Conception of Jazz" and operate as a standalone label. ...

Eivind Aarset Official Website
2007 live albums Eivind Aarset albums