As indicated last month Eivind Aarset's latest album is released this autumn and 'Outbound' from Phantasmagoria, or A Different Kind of Journey (on Bugge Wesseltoft's Jazzland) opens our ears to the Nordic guitar lion's latest sounds and does not disappoint. There's a winning sense of rhythm-heavy momentum that flips through lucid dreaming into sonic ecstasy. C'mere it even takes the 1990s Khmer futurejazz feel firmly into a formidable new phase. In a 4tet configuration Aarset builds from i. e. terrain along with bass guitarist Audun Erlien and two drummer-percussionists Erland Dahlen and Wetle Holte.
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