Dream Logic (album)

Dream Logic is an album by Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset.[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Independent[2]
Allmusic.com[3]
Dagbladet[4]
Dream Logic
Studio album by
Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang
ReleasedNovember 12, 2012 (2012-11-12)
Recorded2011–2012
StudioPunkt Studio & Tjernsbråtan
GenreJazz
Length47:27
LabelECM
ProducerJan Bang
Eivind Aarset chronology
Live Extracts
(2010)		 Dream Logic
(2012)

Review

On this album where Aarset alone heaps up layers of guitars, bass and percussion, totally integrated with the processing and programming constituting a dream like landscape, with tasteful creative contributions from producer Jan Bang, known from the annual Punkt festival in Kristiansand, with his samples and effects, here in collaborations with Erik Honoré, who mixed this album together with Jan Bang and Jan Erik Kongshaug. In spite of the technology the guitar sound is naked as can be, and the music reveals the full breadth of the flowing, imaginative and unorthodox performance of Aarset. He delivers an album in a soft mode, that keeps coming so close to silence without ever actually reaching it, with great depth, dark shades and trance generating twists. Dream Logic is a tastefully sensitive masterpiece from this style finished guitarist who constantly amazes with his ability to find new exciting soundscapes.[1][5]

Reception

The Independent review awarded the album 4 stars,[2] the Allmusic.com review awarded the album 4 stars,[3] and the review of the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet awarded the album dice 5.[4]

Track listing
  1. «Close (For Comfort)» (06:34)
  2. «Surrender» (04:21)
  3. «Jukai (Sea of Trees)» (03:45)
  4. «Black Silence» (04:03)
  5. «Active» (03:20)
  6. «Close (Variation I)» (02:39)
  7. «Reactive» (02:21)
  8. «Homage to Greene» (05:29)
  9. «The Whispering Forest» (05:42)
  10. «Close (Variation II)» (01:43)
  11. «The Beauty of Decay» (07:06)

Personnel

Credits
  • Recorded and mixed 2011/12 at Punkt Studio and Tjernsbråtan by Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, and Jan Erik Kongshaug
  • Mastering: Jan Erik Kongshaug, Rainbow Studio
  • Produced by Jan Bang[6]

References
  1. Kelman, John (2012-12-05). "Eivind Aarset: Dream Logic (2012) - Jazz Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  2. Johnson, Phil (2012-11-18). "Album: Eivind Aarset, Dream Logic (ECM)". Music Reviews. The Independent. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  3. Jurek, Thom. "Eivind Aarset - Dream Logic - Review". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  4. Mosnes, Terje (2012-11-07). "Drømmelogikk og nye (nett)omgivelser". Music Reviews. Dagbladet. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  5. Furu, Svein Magnus (2012-11-22). "Gitarheltens svanesang". Music Reviews (in Norwegian). Morgenbladet. Retrieved 2013-11-17.
  6. "Eivind Aarset – Dream Logic". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-11-13.
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