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Like a novel chronicling a rise from the rubble immediately following some catastrophic event, the batch of tracks Dark Star Safari has cooked up indulge in the spectacle of a turmoil that no one enjoys, but everyone is morbidly fascinated by. An overcast atmosphere too oppressive to ignore, but on such a scale that one can’t help basking in it. The appeal of these 10 songs is fairly consistent, channeling the experimental gothic folk of David Tibet’s work in Current 93. This undeviating flow might be to the album’s detriment, especially when the closing title track ends the album with an anticlimactic fizzle. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising to discover that minimal thought was put into the track list save for “Patria,” simply because it is too perfect of a song to not kick the whole thing off.

But each composition is strong enough on its own for it to not matter which order they’re played in, because it’s all solid enough all the way through. From song to song, Dark Star Safari is like a bonfire that roars despite being fully submerged in water: The sound of the crackling wood has been suppressed, but even beneath the ripples, the intensity of the bending and flicking flames is undeniable.

As a vocalist, Bang takes on a demeanor akin to early Scott Walker, an intriguing contrast to the band’s sound, which resembles something Walker would have put out later in his life. Bang’s voice, while evenly smooth, sometimes sounds as if it was plucked from a singer in a smokey lounge and made to front the soundtrack of a midnight trek through the desert. He is far from a deal breaker and oftentimes works fine for what Dark Star Safari is working towards, but it takes some time to adjust.

Walk Through Lightly ’s unquestionably rich array of percussion, strings and experimental electronics is heightened by the equal weight put on allowing the decay of each note ring out against the ambience. “Father’s Day’s” minimal drums boom as a gentle hum rings somewhere off in the distance. Washes of droning metal scrape around the corner. These elements build on each other up until the moment it all breaks down into a cacophony of animalistic yowling and simple piano. Chilling would be an understatement.

With songs like that, it’s easy to wonder what makes the album so listenable. In the same way that one might enjoy soaking in their favorite Colin Stetson film score, Walk Through Lightly is immediately appealing for the purity of the vibes. Apart from a few segments, such as the pangs of noise towards the end of “Measured Response,” nothing jumps out as particularly extreme in nature. Even when the album’s unsettling, it’s still mostly guitar, violin, drums, and the occasional accompanying synth on something like “Life Stand Still.”

“Invocation” breaks away from this structure with the inclusion of a subtle groove that keeps the song chugging forward. It’s also one of the only songs that includes a clear verse/chorus/verse structure. As serene as it is, some questionable lyricism arises with lines like “ You must never leave/ I would lose faith in believing/ Without you girl. ” But considering the song’s title along with the way Bang holds this “girl” to such divine standards, it has to be assumed that the manipulative language is intentional.

At some points, Dark Star Safari are dead ringers for their biggest influences. Fortunately, said influences take up such a unique space in the music world that anything resembling them is welcomed with open arms. Walk Through Lightly is daring, even verging on harrowing. They push their sound while never conceding on maintaining a strong sense of place, and the end result is one of the most exciting releases of the year.

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Dark Star Safari – Walk Through Lightly

Jan Bang – vocals, live sampling, samples, ac. piano, Erik Honoré – synthesizer, samples, synth bass, voice, lyrics Eivind Aarset – guitar, electronics, bass John Derek Bishop – live sampling, voice, bass, field recordings Samuel Rohrer – drums, percussion, electronics, modular synths

Cat.Nr: AMEL-LP721 – Vinyl/Digital Worldwide Distribution: Word & Sound

RELEASE DATE: September 24 2021

Tracklisting: 1 Patria 3.53 – 2 Life Stand Still 4.18 – 3 Portraits of You 3.35 – 4 Measured Response 4.26 
 5 Father’s Day 4.21 – 6 Invocation 3.54 – 7 Murmuration 4.04 – 8 Passover 4.25 – 9 Disembodied 3.43 
 10 Walk Through Lightly 3.40 — Total time: 40.24

Guest appearances: Vilde&Inga: double bass, violin on PATRIA, Arve Henriksen: trumpet on INVOCATION, 
 Emanuel Birkeland-Bang: drum programming & Inge Breistein: saxophone on PASSOVER

Produced by Dark Star Safari

Recorded in October 2019 at Candybomber Studio Berlin by Ingo Krauss. Additional recordings and post production in 2020 at Punkt Studio Kristiansand, The Green Room and home studios in Oslo, Stavanger and Berlin. Mixed by Erik Honoré in Oslo in January and February 2021. Mastered by Mike Grinser, Manmade Mastering Berlin. Copyright control (TONO/SUISA)

© arjunamusic.com 2021 – electronic series — D&DA The Designers Republic, Ian Anderson

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Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second full-length offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few stylistic comparisons to other musical peers, and in fact few comparisons to existing genres. Though this second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress.

The album opener immediately and successfully sets the table for what is to follow. The electronic and acoustic instrumentation is pensive, but not passive, with restrained scrapes and stridulations in the background combining with backwards-looped passages and perlescent or granulated sound effects to better emphasize the carefully arranged latticework of guitar, percussion, strings, and bass. In some places, such as on “Father’s Day” and “Measured Response,” the silences or breaths between passages are pronounced enough to be an instrument in their own right (and an elegant confirmation of the fact that silence is also a conveyor of information). This nuanced production, which wisely opts for intimacy instead of relying on overdone “instant atmosphere generators” like lengthy reverb, provides just enough tension to contrast with the sense of elevation provided by Bang’s vocal contributions: smoky, evanescent, and impressionistic recitations offering not snapshots of specific events, but rather complete emotional environments for the listener to hover through and explore.

Within these environments, the lyrical imagery focuses upon coming to grips with sudden transformations on both micro and macro levels (the opening “this was a perfect place / till we lost our way” from “Patria” or the foreboding “Poems that explore / Their silence / Crush their violence / Now their time ends” from “Measured Response.”) It focuses as well upon coming to thresholds or crossings, be they physical crossroads or internal states of mind, or both (see especially the striking turns of phrase from “Murmuration.”) With such things in mind, it’s only natural that there would be consideration of dreaming as well, and indeed four different titles on the LP make different reference to a dream or dream state, seemingly valuing dreams as part of the continuum of consciousness rather than something totally cut off from waking experience.  

Given the sense of foreboding, anticipation, and even unease that these kinds of subjects often bring with them, the spare and un-hurried music is all the more intriguing, especially when the eponymous finale arrives and the percolating sound bed seems to hint at a coming resolution, but then leaves the listener with more questions than answers. By competently fusing a mature, economical approach to sincerely romantic lyrical themes, Walk Through Lightly is a rare accomplishment.

Tracklisting:   1 Patria 3.53 – 2 Life Stand Still 4.18 – 3 Portraits of You 3.35   – 4   Measured Response 4.26 5 Father’s Day 4.21 – 6 Invocation 3.54 – 7 Murmuration 4.04   – 8 Passover 4.25   – 9 Disembodied 3.43 10   Walk Through Lightly 3.40     —   Total time: 40.24

DARK STAR SAFARI Walk Through Lightly (2021)

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Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second full-length offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few stylistic comparisons to other musical peers, and in fact few comparisons to existing genres. Though this second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress. 
 
 Given the sense of foreboding, anticipation, and even unease that these kinds of subjects often bring with them, the spare and un-hurried music is all the more intriguing, especially when the eponymous finale arrives and the percolating sound bed seems to hint at a coming resolution, but then leaves the listener with more questions than answers. By competently fusing a mature, economical approach to sincerely romantic lyrical themes, Walk Through Lightly is a rare accomplishment.

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This body of musicians perform together under various labels and guises, producing sounds for the most part belonging to a whole genre of their own, technology being the catalyst for their mainly laidback soundscapes.

Front man and producer Jan Bang supplies deadpan vocals over the wash of electronica, where it becomes difficult to ascertain which instruments are producing the individual strands of sound we are experiencing. For instance, guitarist Aarset is famous for the distortion and delays he uses on his main instrument, the guitar.

As already suggested, this music belongs in a land yet to be investigated by the majority of ears – it can hardly be classified as jazz, does not belong in the prog-rock area and even those who enjoy an ambient offering might shy away from this Nordic phenomenon.

Having arrived at the conclusion this is not jazz, this is a difficult disc to rate in these pages, hence it receives three stars for its unique merits.

Discography Patria; Life Stand Still; Portraits Of You; Measured Response; Father’s Day; Invocation; Murmuration; Passover; Disembodied; Walk Through Lightly (40.19) Jan Bang (v, samples, p, syn); Erik Honore (syn, samples, synth bass); Eivind Aarset (g, elec, elb); John Derek Bishop (syn, samples, elb); Samuel Rohrer (d, syn, pc, elec). October 2019.

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Dark Star Safari - Walk Through Lightly

Arjunamusic Records

Format: LP Catalogue No.: AMELLP721 Release Date: 24 Sep 2021 Genre: Ambient

Tracklist LP: 1 Patria 3.53 - 2 Life Stand Still 4.18 - 3 Portraits of You 3.35 - 4 Measured Response 4.26 - 5 Father’s Day 4.21 - 6 Invocation 3.54 - 7 Murmuration 4.04 8 Passover 4.25 - 9 Disembodied 3.43 10 Walk Through Lightly 3.40 Total time: 40.24

Press release by Thomas Bey William Bailey Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second fulllength offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few stylistic comparisons to other musical peers, and in fact few comparisons to existing genres. Though this second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress. The album opener immediately and successfully sets the table for what is to follow. The electronic and acoustic instrumentation is pensive, but not passive, with restrained scrapes and stridulations in the background combining with backwards-looped passages and perlescent or granulated sound effects to better emphasize the carefully arranged latticework of guitar, percussion, strings, and bass. In some places, such as on “Father’s Day” and “Measured Response,” the silences or breaths between passages are pronounced enough to be an instrument in their own right

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Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop. Their second fulllength offering Walk Through Lightly is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few stylistic comparisons to other musical peers, and in fact few comparisons to existing genres. Though this second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress. The album opener immediately and successfully sets the table for what is to follow. The electronic and acoustic instrumentation is pensive, but not passive, with restrained scrapes and stridulations in the background combining with backwards-looped passages and perlescent or granulated sound effects to better emphasize the carefully arranged latticework of guitar, percussion, strings, and bass. In some places, such as on “Father’s Day” and “Measured Response,” the silences or breaths between passages are pronounced enough to be an instrument in their own right (and an elegant confirmation of the fact that silence is also a conveyor of information). This nuanced production, which wisely opts for intimacy instead of relying on overdone "instant atmosphere generators" like lengthy reverb, provides just enough tension to contrast with the sense of elevation provided by Bang’s vocal contributions: smoky, evanescent, and impressionistic recitations offering not snapshots of specific events, but rather complete emotional environments for the listener to hover through and explore. Within these environments, the lyrical imagery focuses upon coming to grips with sudden transformations on both micro and macro levels (the opening “this was a perfect place / till we lost our way” from “Patria” or the foreboding “Poems that explore / Their silence / Crush their violence / Now their time ends” from “Measured Response.”) It focuses as well upon coming to thresholds or crossings, be they physical crossroads or internal states of mind, or both (see especially the striking turns of phrase from “Murmuration.”) With such things in mind, it’s only natural that there would be consideration of dreaming as well, and indeed four different titles on the LP make different reference to a dream or dream state, seemingly valuing dreams as part of the continuum of consciousness rather than something totally cut off from waking experience. Given the sense of foreboding, anticipation, and even unease that these kinds of subjects often bring with them, the spare and un-hurried music is all the more intriguing, especially when the eponymous finale arrives and the percolating sound bed seems to hint at a coming resolution, but then leaves the listener with more questions than answers. By competently fusing a mature, economical approach to sincerely romantic lyrical themes, Walk Through Lightly is a rare accomplishment.

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"Legion" is the second single taken from the forthcoming album "Last Two Inches of Sky". Featuring Nona Hendryx on vocals, it is a beat-driven yet atmospheric song, melodic yet unsettling, punctuated by bursts of trombone from Gianluca Petrella.  

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Last two inches of sky.

«Last Two Inches of Sky», released by Punkt Editions on 23 September, is an ambitious and engaging mixture of sonic painting and art-pop; a new high point in Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang’s collective output.

Aarset and Bang have collaborated since the early 1990s in constellations with, among others, Nils Petter Molvær, Bugge Wesseltoft, Sly & Robbie and Jon Hassell. «Snow Catches on her Eyelashes» (2020) was their first recording as a duo, an album that was widely praised, inspiring John Eyles of All About Jazz to write: «Aarset, Bang and company go from strength to strength, as does the Norwegian scene. Onward and upward.»

«Last Two Inches of Sky» further expands this sonic universe – onward and upward. Like its predecessor, the new recording is an amalgam of styles, linked together by Jan Bang’s hallmark sampling technique and Eivind Aarset's continuous exploration of the guitar. Now, the rhythm section of Audun Erlien (bass) and Anders Engen (drums) are prominent on most tracks, and the arrangements are enhanced by guests like Gianluca Petrella (trombone), Adam Rudolph (percussion), Emanuel Birkeland-Bang (drum programming) and Erik Honoré (samples, lyrics on «Legion»).  Both conceptually and sonically, «Last Two Inches of Sky» is a multi-dimensional experience of dreams within dreams, layers upon layers of colours, light and shade. While the seamlessness and warmth of the duo’s earlier work is still present, the new album is thoroughly grounded in a bass/beat foundation owing much to the Jamaican sound systems of the 1970s, but placed within a decidedly 2020s context.

At times the music crosses from abstract soundpainting into melodic art-pop territory, primarily on the two vocal pieces, still with a distinctive dub feeling at its core: «Legion» with vocals by Nona Hendryx (founder member of Labelle) and the title track sung by Tim Elsenburg of British quartet Sweet Billy Pilgrim.

On this track, with its Icarus-inspired imagery of ambition, risk and hope, Tim Elsenburg yearns for the hollow bones of birds; light enough for the protagonist to break free, to soar: Everything I know is like a rope around the ankles

Hollow out my bones and take me higher

To the last two inches of sky Listening with your eyes closed, this is exactly the escape that Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang’s powerful new album offers you. Close to the sun, perhaps, but grounded by the beat.

«Last Two Inches of Sky» will be released by Punkt Editions on 23 September. In addition to a release concert at Punkt on 2 September, where Aarset/Bang are joined by Audun Erlien (bass) and Hamid Drake (drums), the duo will go on tour in November with Audun Erlien (bass) and Samuel Rohrer (drums).

Dai Fujikura & Jan Bang

The bow maker.

THE BOW MAKER – DAI FUJIKURA AND JAN BANG

From the opening grand diptych of “Night Poles River” through its eight tracks, Dai Fujikura and Jan Bang’s The Bow Maker is an album of multidimensional musical movements – not in the conventional compositional sense, but in the sense of actual movement : the music is constantly active, enveloping the listener, surrounding them with evanescent sonic spaces.

Featuring Dai Fujikura on synthesisers throughout (apart from one piece, “Implanted Memories”, to which he contributes orchestral samples), alongside Jan Bang’s unique use of samples, sound processing, and programming, the album features an ever-changing cast of contributors. Eivind Aarset’s guitar moves between textural elements, broad warm glissandos, and brief interjections of unidentifiable sounds. Arve Henriksen provides his fluid trumpet playing and breathy falsetto vocals. Nils Petter Molvær’s trumpet provides different moods from that of Henriksen’s, despite sharing stylistic musical DNA. Kati Raitinen’s resonant cello on the title track creates an evocative textural contrast with the shifting sonic world around it. Tamami Tono’s Sho (a mouth organ, a Japanese traditional instrument) conjures a unique acoustic terrain that undulates and rolls through angular peaks and valleys. 

The mood and atmosphere of each piece is distinct, sometimes wide in scope and spacious, sometimes enclosed and focussed, sometimes warm and hazy, sometimes cool and crystalline. The fleeting elements – whether brief incursions of drums, prepared piano or orchestra, half-glimpsed field recordings, or manipulated echoes of the other instruments – populate these spaces with a kind of ongoing life through which a leading instrument, often trumpet or voice or both, can swoop and weave. It is like shifting illumination and silhouettes behind shoji.

The combination of the organic spirit of the music (despite its electronic nature) with the versatility of the musicians involved means that while sounds are clearly differentiated within the soundscape, their true source is often unclear.

Seemingly freeform, the pieces contain subtle structures over which the music flows like windblown silk, vacillating between obscuring this supporting architecture, creating clinging outlines if it, or briefly revealing it. The closing piece, “Satellite Sister”, perhaps follows mostly closely the structure of a conventional song, albeit through implied repetition and counterpoint.

The album could arguably be regarded as a perfect example of the “Punkt Sound”. This is not music that reclines into the background to be unnoticed, not a new age meditation soundtrack, not sonic furniture. It is music that engages directly with the listener, actively permeating their consciousness, capturing their attention.

That this album should be identifiable as possessing the “Punkt Sound” is perhaps appropriate, as this is the first release from Punkt Editions, a new imprint under Jazzland Recordings, curated by Jan Bang and Erik Honoré.

Bang / Toop / Wastell

Compound full of bones, translucent thousands (cd/dl 2021 confront).

From the moment I heard that this trio had spent a day in a London studio I have been anticipating the results. Three distinctive musical minds and voices: each familiar, never before together.  Jan Bang’s sound environments are deeply affecting, created with an Akai sampler and interwoven with the work of collaborators in both studio and live remix situations. There’s a sensitivity and respect in David Toop’s sound-making borne from his insatiable curiosity about the evolution of music in cultures across the world. Mark Wastell’s use of acoustic percussion and his explorations into the potential of simple instruments result in nothing short of a spiritual communion with sound.  No parameters were set for the sessions. Three improvisations of around thirty minutes duration were recorded. Afterwards, every sound played in those performances was brought together to create a unified whole.  There are moments where each player’s voice is distinct: the resonance of Wastell’s tam-tam caresses, the bursts and trills of Toop’s woodwind, the pitch-altered looping of Bang’s manipulated samples. But the triumph of this collaboration is the sound world of their combined creation.  There’s an openness in the mix that allows each expression to breathe. It’s like being encircled by some elaborate gossamer sculpture, flashes of colour and light glinting through as it catches the breeze.  The trio’s music creates a strong sense of place, yet you can’t quite put your finger on the exact location. There are crescendos that remind me of the vibrant frenzy once experienced in the Amazonian rainforest. Jan Bang injects into the mix both snippets of his co-creators’ performances and samples collected over time for deployment in just the right context. We hear faint orchestral swells and then voices, both spoken and sung, the recordings degraded so far as to be barely recognisable. These add a strange authenticity to this imagined territory, the acoustic purity of Toop and Wastell’s instruments providing a counterpoint that expands the stage.  Deep listening reveals some beautiful passages where all else subsides but for the elegance of a simple motif. None is more perfect than the gentle melody that emerges to bring resolution in the final moments.  A Compound Full of Bones, Translucent Thousands has an eloquence that transcends both the circumstances of its creation in a small London studio and the finely-honed technique of each individual artist. Expressive, alluring: music with which to share your time and imagination.  

released December 11, 2021  Jan Bang - live sampling, samples  David Toop - lapsteel guitar, flutes, whistles, small percussion, harmonica, elastic, paper  Mark Wastell - Paiste 32” tam tam, gongs, beaters, brushes, sticks, bow, autoharp  Recorded by Shaun Crook, London, 22 November 2019  Compositional structure by Mark Wastell  Mixed and mastered by Rupert Clervaux  Cover image by Crimson Wastell  Liner notes by David Nibloe  Design by Matthew Brandi  Produced by Mark Wastell

Tigran Hamasyan / Arve Henriksen Eivind Aarset / Jan Bang

Atmosphéres (cd/dl 2016 ecm).

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This far-reaching double album, recorded and mixed in three days in Lugano, introduces a new group with Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset and Jan Bang. The Norwegians had played in diverse configurations on ECM - Jan Bang on Eivind Aarset’s  Dream Logic , for instance, and Bang and Aarset on Arve Henriksen’s  Cartography  - but with Hamasyan at the centre of the sound, bringing with him ancient folk melodies transfigured in the compositions of Komitas, other inspirations come into play. All four players are at a creative peak here, whether freely reflecting upon Armenian themes or spontaneously shaping atmospheric soundscapes together.

Arve Henriksen / Eivind Aarset / Jan Bang / Jez Riley French

The height of the reeds (lp/dl/cd 2018 rune grammofon).

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"The Height Of The Reeds" started as a commissioned work to the city of Hull, Great Britain´s cultural capital 2017. Composed by Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, Jan Bang and Jez riley French, the work celebrates the longstanding seafaring relationship between Hull and Scandinavia. It was originally the musical companion to a sound walk that took place in April, May and June 2017. Those who took part could listen to the music on headphones while crossing the Humber Bridge. Initially intended for April only, the arrangement proved so popular it ended up with selling out three months, a total of 15.000 tickets. This beautifully evocative music can now be experienced through this release, where only minor adjustments have been done to justify the transition from sound walk to album.

...And Poppies From Kandahar (CD 2010 Samadhisound)

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Acclaimed producer and Punkt Festival co-founder releases expansive, lush production featuring Jon Hassell, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, and Sidsel Endresen

… And Poppies From Kandahar, Jan Bang’s first album under his own name, evokes a powerful sense of place – but it’s not a place you would recognize, or ever expect to find.  A descendent of Jon Hassell’s “fourth world” concept, it sketches scenes of struggle and malice, in locales both primitive and urbane.   As a producer, Bang stitches it together like a patchwork atlas and then makes the seams disappear: live recordings and studio constructions, old samples and new solos come together to form an exquisite whole.

Bang recruits a cast of collaborators from Norway and beyond, who will be familiar to anyone who’s followed his recent productions: trumpeter and vocalist Arve Henriksen, whose albums Cartography and Chiaroscuro were co-produced by Bang; the stunning vocalist Sidsel Endresen, whose captivating turn on “The Midwife’s Dilemma” grows out of a moan and a half-croak; and samadhisound founder David Sylvian, who wrote the titles for each piece and the album as a whole, setting these abstract scenes in a disruptive context.  

This is music of the world, but it’s rooted in Kristiansand, Norway, Bang’s home and workplace.  His musical career began in the late ‘80s, when he cut his first albums in a synth-and-vocals duo with Erik  Honoré.  By the ‘90s he was a producer of Norwegian pop acts, when pianist Bugge Wesseltoft invited him on stage with an improvising ensemble.  “I had the idea of using musicians as ‘input’ to my sampler instead of vinyl,” recalls Bang.  “We called it ‘live sampling.’ I found it appealing to work in a live situation with improvised music where things change at the blink of an eye …  .  I was able to work in past, present and future, according to what the other musicians were doing and how they reacted to what I was throwing back into the mix.”

Bang started writing the material for … And Poppies From Kandahar in January 2009.   “As I often do, I started working on instrumentals which I then presented to the musician that I thought might benefit the track – not unlike the process of making the Cartography album with Arve. … I knew I wanted to write music that had references to my influences, but where I could use my own dialect.  I wanted to work with both composition and improvisation on an equal level – using contrasting forms, different dimensions, randomness, parallel directions which weren’t necessarily meant to express anything specific other than to work within the frame of the piece itself.”

The sounds on  … And Poppies From Kandahar come from the studio and the stage, close-mic’d instruments and field recordings, the clank of a bottle and the grandeur of an orchestra.   Says Bang, “As a ‘samplist’ I collect sounds that may become useful in other situations. It´s much like collecting sand shells without knowing how to use them – just keeping them because of their pure beauty.”  

The result transcends idiom or genre.  A sample of guitarist Eivind Aarset clicks over humble handclaps on “The Midwife’s Dilemma”; trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær solos over a melody by Robert Schumann.  “Self Injury” is a hybrid of live and studio tapes, where upright bass casts a pall over Arve Henriksen’s monastic falsetto.   And “Passport Control” excerpts  “Gammler Zen + Hohe Berge” by Germany’s Kammerflimmer Kollektief, marrying its urgent tempo to wary brass.

The conclusion, “Exile from Paradise,” is a performance of Sidsel Endresen’s “Undertow” that was taped at Punkt Festival 2008 – and that features Jon Hassell on trumpet.  “To me, Jon is one of the most important philosophers of our time.  I can hear his influence in a lot of peoples work, including my own.” Hassell’s solo, sweeping and pacifistic, blesses an unforgettable journey across borders and eras, from the fictional to the indescribable.  

Audun Kleive / Jan Bang

The periphery of a building (lp/dl 2017 gråtone).

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Periphery-Building-VINYL-Audun-Kleive/dp/B07559FHTY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1545485928&sr=8-2&keywords=Audun+Kleive+jan+bang

Listing somewhere between the cognitive and the corporeal comes the third release from Gratone. The Periphery of a Building', a live remix work featuring long-time collaborators Audun Kleive on percussion and Jan Bang on live sampling sees the young Norwegian label expound on the territories between extended jazz and the dance floor through a four track LP. Veterans Audun Kleive and Jan Bang tap into something innate that moves perpendicular to the techno ethos perpetuated by the label's previous releases. The Periphery of a Building', is a work that brings the past into the present and draws a red thread between genres. It juxtaposes disparate ideas between the dance floor and jazz, and ensnares itself in the tangled web of tradition and progress in a bold indefnable musical dialect. Upholding the ethos of Gratone by negating expectation Periphery of a Building' also calls in a new era for the young, but fertile label. Periphery of a Building' is Kleive and Bang reconsidering live Punkt remixes* of Etenesh Wassie & Mathieu Sourisseau, AtomTM and Clarinet Factory & Floex. In their selection of source material for the Gratone LP, they eradicate, and then reconstruct tradition.

Dark Star Safari

Walk through lightly.

Arjunamusic Records  presents the second full-length offering by  Dark Star Safari , a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset, Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop.  Walk Through Lightly  is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. This second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress.

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[ September the 24th,2021 release on Arjunamusic Records: Dark Star Safari – Walk Through Lightly ]

release date: 24.09.2021 on Arjunamusic Records

Dark Star Safari is a musical entity comprised of Jan Bang , Erik Honoré , Eivind Aarset , Samuel Rohrer and John Derek Bishop . Their second full-length offering  Walk Through Lightly  is the first to feature all five musicians together in the studio from the outset, making for a more organic refinement upon their already established methodology: gradually sculpting distinct songs out of collective improvisations, or using the raw material from initial recordings as the basis for more carefully articulated compositions. The final mix is one that invites few stylistic comparisons to other musical peers, and in fact few comparisons to existing genres. Though this second offering from the project is frosted over with a Scandinavian sense of spatiality and melancholy, it’s best listened to without considering any origin points, geographic or otherwise: from the opening moments of “Walk Through Lightly,” listeners will feel as if teleported directly into the middle of an enigmatic film-in-progress.

The album opener immediately and successfully sets the table for what is to follow. The electronic and acoustic instrumentation is pensive, but not passive, with restrained scrapes and stridulations in the background combining with backwards-looped passages and perlescent or granulated sound effects to better emphasize the carefully arranged latticework of guitar, percussion, strings, and bass. In some places, such as on “Father’s Day” and “Measured Response,” the silences or breaths between passages are pronounced enough to be an instrument in their own right (and an elegant confirmation of the fact that silence is also a conveyor of information). This nuanced production, which wisely opts for intimacy instead of relying on overdone “instant atmosphere generators” like lengthy reverb, provides just enough tension to contrast with the sense of elevation provided by Bang’s vocal contributions: smoky, evanescent, and impressionistic recitations offering not snapshots of specific events, but rather complete emotional environments for the listener to hover through and explore.

Within these environments, the lyrical imagery focuses upon coming to grips with sudden transformations on both micro and macro levels (the opening  “this was a perfect place / till we lost our way”  from “Patria” or the foreboding  “Poems that explore / Their silence / Crush their violence / Now their time ends”  from “Measured Response.”) It focuses as well upon coming to thresholds or crossings, be they physical crossroads or internal states of mind, or both (see especially the striking turns of phrase from “Murmuration.”) With such things in mind, it’s only natural that there would be consideration of dreaming as well, and indeed four different titles on the LP make different reference to a dream or dream state, seemingly valuing dreams as part of the continuum of consciousness rather than something totally cut off from waking experience.

Given the sense of foreboding, anticipation, and even unease that these kinds of subjects often bring with them, the spare and un-hurried music is all the more intriguing, especially when the eponymous finale arrives and the percolating sound bed seems to hint at a coming resolution, but then leaves the listener with more questions than answers. By competently fusing a mature, economical approach to sincerely romantic lyrical themes,  Walk Through Lightly  is a rare accomplishment.

DARK STAR SAFARI – WALK THROUGH LIGHTLY Label: Arjunamusic Records; Cat No* AMEL – LP721 Line up:

Jan Bang – vocals, live sampling, samples, ac. piano, Erik Honoré – synthesizer, samples, synth bass, voice, lyrics Eivind Aarset – guitar, electronics, bass John Derek Bishop – live sampling, voice, bass, field recordings Samuel Rohrer – drums, percussion, electronics, modular synths

Guest appearances: Vilde&Inga: double bass, violin on PATRIA, Arve Henriksen: trumpet on INVOCATION,

Emanuel Birkeland-Bang: drum programming & Inge Breistein: saxophone on PASSOVER

1 Patria                                  3.53 2 Life Stand Still                  4.18 3 Portraits of You                3.35 4 Measured Response        4.26 5 Father’s Day                      4.21 6 Invocation                         3.54 7 Murmuration                    4.04 8 Passover                             4.25 9 Disembodied                     3.43 10 Walk Through Lightly   3.40

Total time: 40.24 Produced by Dark Star Safari

Recorded in October 2019 at Candybomber Studio Berlin by Ingo Krauss. Additional recordings and post production in 2020 at Punkt Studio Kristiansand, The Green Room and home studios in Oslo, Stavanger and Berlin. Mixed by Erik Honoré in Oslo in January and February 2021. Mastered by Mike Grinser, Manmade Mastering Berlin. Copyright control (TONO/SUISA)

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