Jo David Meyer Lysne & Mats Eilertsen - Kroksjo

Cat. no: HUBROLP3534
Format: LP
Barcode: 7033662035342
Release Date: 27th November 2020
Genre: Jazz

The new album by the partnership of guitarist Jo David Meyer Lysne and double bassist Mats Eilertsen is a remarkable document that functions simultaneously as both a calm and meditative series of chillout soundscapes, and as a rigorously poetic evocation of mood and place that one might expect to hear more readily in an art gallery installation.

It is also shockingly beautiful. The ecstatic shimmer of acoustic guitar and pedal steel textures meld into electronic echoes of what might be sleigh bells or a glass harmonica, in treated sounds that recall the ambient recordings of Brian Eno, or the organ drones of early Terry Riley. Sinuous glissando slides and steadfast plucked bass notes provide the backdrop to airy inventions that can seem as close to the test tones of a vintage audio demonstration disc as they do to conventional synth voicings or effects.

And although Meyer Lysne is a guitar virtuoso, and Eilertsen one of Europe’s leading jazz bassists, there’s not a lot of conventional guitar or bass to be heard. Throughout, a broken beat rhythmic pulse formed from what appears to be the clicks of vinyl run off grooves or odd turntable glitches, comes and goes, creating a formidable contrast between what sounds like music, and what sounds like sound.

Tracks: Lamyra / Forve / Strandsjo / Byakjela / Snoensoya / Alykkja / Finna / Furumokjela

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