On Repeat: Aarset, Laderas, PDX

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I would later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all. ▰ These weekly(ish) recommendations are by definition things I’ve been listening to a lot — and am thinking about, having listened — the preceding week, but this item is brand new, posted to YouTube as I was selecting what to highlight. It’s rousing performance video from guitarist Eivind Aarset, with two drummers (Wetle Holte, Erland Dahlen), the former also playing dulcimer, and Audun Erlien on bass. ▰ My friend Ted Laderas, a bioinformatics data scientist who goes by the OO-Ray, posted this hour-long loop of piano and ukulele being processed by open source music software running on a cool open source hardware instrument called the Norns. Most importantly, it’s lovely and glistening. The image is just a still of his setup, so don’t wait for anything to happen. The music is…

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