Live Extracts

Live Extracts
Live album by Eivind Aarset's
Sonic Codex Orchestra
Released 2010
Recorded Moers Festival, Festivalzelt
Jazzfestival Saalfelden and Domicil, Dortmund
Leipziger Jazztage and Casa Del Jazz, Rome
Genre Nu Jazz
Length 51:52
Label Jazzland
Producer Eivind Aarset
Franz Ruedel
Bernd Hoffman
Eivind Aarset chronology

Sonic Codex
(2004)
Live Extracts
(2010)
Dream Logic
(2012)

Live Extracts (released 2010 in Oslo, Norway by Jazzland – 0602527364575) is a Nu Jazz album by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset's Sonic Codex Orchestra.[1][2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
BBC Music Magazine performance: [3]
BBC Music Magazine sound: [3]
The Guardian [4]

Review

Aarset's fifth album as a leader embraces the improvisational power and skill of the expanded Sonic Codex Orchestra. All About Jazz critique John Kelman, in his review of Aarset's album Live Extracts states:

... «Live Extracts», culled from six different venues over the course of the past year. With minimal editing and no overdubs, this is as close to experiencing Aarset in performance as many will get, and for that reason alone is worthy of attention...[1]

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.[1][3]

Reception

The BBC Music Magazine review awarded the album 5 stars for performance and 4 stars for sound,[3] and the The Guardian review awarded the album 3 stars.[4]

Track listing

  1. «Electromoers» (2:16)
  2. «Electromagnetic» (10:20)
  3. «Still Changing» (7:54)
    Drums – Torstein Lofthus
    Saxophone – Håkon Kornstad
  4. «Drøbak Saray» (9:43)
  5. «Murky Seven» (2:06)
  6. «Sign Of Seven » (9:46)
  7. «Blå Meis» (9:47)
    Saxophone – Håkon Kornstad

Personnel

Credits

Notes

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kelman, John (2012-06-29). "Eivind Aarset & The Sonic Codex Orchestra: "Live Extracts" - Jazz Review". All About Jazz. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
  2. "Live Extracts - Eivind Aarset". GubeMusic.com. Retrieved 2012-10-11.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Witherden, Barry. "Eivind Aarset & Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts - Review". BBC Music Magazine. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Fordham, John (2010-08-05). "Eivind Aarset & the Sonic Codex Orchestra: Live Extracts (Jazzland)". Music Reviews. The Guardian. Retrieved 2012-12-08.
  5. "Eivind Aarset – Live Extracts". Discogs.com.

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