Light Extracts Explained

Light Extracts
Type:	studio
Border:	yes
Released:	2001
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	52:04
Label:	Jazzland
Chronology:	Eivind Aarset
Prev Title:	Électronique Noire
Prev Year:	1998
Next Title:	Connected
Next Year:	2004

Light Extracts is an album by Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset's Électronique Noire.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Background

This is the second solo album by the Norwegian guitarist Eivind Aarset for Bugge Wesseltoft'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.^{[4] [5]}

AllMusic critique Thom Jurek, in his review of Aarset's album Light Extracts states:

... Basses rattle in the underpinned rhythmic center as Aarset's guitar plies a textural schema trying to get to and undo the fixed center of the track. He loose-hands his way around the fretboard, playing against the rhythm and on top of it until everything gives way to some new form of musically crystalline darkness. Light Extracts is light years ahead of everybody in this game and a few notches above his first effort. This is the cat to watch....

Reception

The AllMusic reviewer Thom Jurek awarded the album 4.5 stars,^[2] and the reviewer Terje Mosnes of the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet awarded the album dice 4.^[3]

Track listing

1. «Empathic Guitar» (4:25)
2. «Wolf Extract» (8:20)
   Bass Clarinet – Hans Ulrik
   Electric piano – Arve Furset
3. «Dust Kittens» (5:26)
   Arranging (co-arranging) – Nick Sillito
4. «The String Thing» (7:40)
   Electric bass – Eivind Aarset
5. «Between Signal & Noise» (8:33)
   Bass clarinet – Hans Ulrik
   Electric piano – Arve Furset
6. «Ffwd / Slow Motion» (6:23)
7. «Self Defence» (4:33)
   Composer – Eivind Aarset, Marius Reksjø & Wetle Holte
8. «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^[6]

External links

• Eivind Aarset Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Eivind Aarset's Electronique Noire: Light Extracts (2002) - Track Review . John Eyles . . 2002-03-01 . 2013-10-06.
2. Web site: Eivind Aarset - Light Extracts review . . 2013-10-06.
3. Web site: Eivind Aarsets électronique: Formmessig flott, svakere innhold . Terje . Mosnes . Norwegian . . 2001-10-16 . 2013-10-06.
4. Web site: Eivind Aarset's Électronique Noire: Light Extracts - Review . Tor . Hammerø . Norwegian . Puls.no . 2001-09-18 . 2013-10-06.
5. Web site: Eivind Aarset – "Dream Logic" . PunktFestival.no . 2013-06-24 . 2013-10-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131227163011/http://punktfestival.no/eivind-aarset-dream-logic . 2013-12-27 .
6. Web site: Eivind Aarset's Électronique Noire – Light Extracts . Discogs.com . 2013-10-06.