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2020 15 Feb

Eivind comes to town (someday)

von: Michael Engelbrecht Filed under: Blog | TB | Tags: , , Comments off

 


OH SHIT! JUST HEARD THAT THE CONCERT IS CANCELLED DUE TO A COVID INFECTION OF EIVIND. GET WELL SOON! (We let this text sleep quietly on this day of disappointment and will use it as a time capsule for the hopefully near future. Meanwhile we‘ll go down to the river and listen to Phantasmagoria, Dream Logic, Snow Catches On Her Eyelashes, Crime Scenes, Atmosphères, Lost River, Last Night the Moon Came Droping its Clothes in the Street, and Electronique Noir, for example.)

 

In diesen Tagen, auf einer auf vier Orte zusammengeschrumpften Tour durch deutsche Lande, kommt Eivind Aarset mit seinem Quartett ins Domicil nach Dortmund, meiner alten Heimat. Abends am 18. Februar. Zwei Manafonisten werden vor Ort sein, mindestens, Ingo und ich. Zudem hoffe ich, dass einige Leser dieser Zeilen (are there still old friends kicking?) sich aufschwingen, den norwegischen Gitarristen und Komponisten und Meister des Unvorhersehbaren in einer witterungsbeständigen, fantastischen Band zu erleben, die den gesamten Unsinn der Begrifflichkeiten von fusion bis post jazz und post rock pulverisiert. Ich erlebte die Gruppe ja noch vor Monaten in Kristiansand beim Punktfestival (das Foto machte Ingo dort), und etliche meiner Kollegen und Freunde waren ganz aus dem Häuschen, denn wenngleich Eivind dort seit den Anfangen dieses Festivals anno 2005 Heimspiele hat, begeisterte er uns nun mindestens so wie in früheren Zeiten. This music is an organic beast. Oder wie schrieb ich vor Monaten:

 

I might come back (and that‘s what I‘m doing these days, guys – and, funny enough, what has been running in my new old Toyota, thinking of Eivind‘s gig in my old town in three days from now: „Masters of Reality“ from Black Sabbath – serves me well!), to the „different travel“ of Eivind Aarset’s 4_tet, and I really try hard to not write what I’m about to write now, but sitting with my new Norwegian friends at the table, Nick (originally from Australia, finally someone knowing The Go-Betweens) and Marte and Hank and Sten (kudos!) – doing no air guitar, but some kind of miniaturized body percussion with hands and legs mirroring the double drumming – the quartet was kind of working the limits, and, yes, this old saying, shooting some stars from the sky without making a big fuzz about it. And didn‘t Fiona Talkington make some great introductions from her nature reserve in Reading bringing up front the magic of „thin places“!?

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