Eivind Aarset 4tet, Outbound, Jazzland *****

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 …

Published: 14 Aug 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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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The Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra, The Sirius Mystery opus 4 no​.​1, Ropeadope *****

I'll add The Sirius Mystery to marlbank top albums of the year to date in 2021 immediately without a doubt. Trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn delivers mightily entering a blutopian multiverse of considerable design. It's obvious. In the 1990s …

Published: 13 Aug 2021. Updated: 2 years.

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I'll add The Sirius Mystery to marlbank top albums of the year to date in 2021 immediately without a doubt. Trumpeter and composer Russell Gunn delivers mightily entering a blutopian multiverse of considerable design. It's obvious. In the 1990s Gunn was with Wynton on Blood on the Fields and Wynton actually is on this fine new record composed, arranged, orchestrated and conducted by Gunn.

You may know Gunn's sound even more than you think especially if you recall the much-missed Jez Nelson BBC Radio 3 show Jazz on 3 which used a Gunn theme (from '74 Miles Away') for its theme tune.

Leading the zany Royal Krunk Jazz Orkestra who already have a few albums out, pan-African motifs are explored immersively on The Sirius Mystery drawing on Gunn's Malian roots and delving into the Dogon universe walking and talking with the spirits that surround.