On Repeat: Aarset, Kowalczyk, Fennesz

On Sundays I try to at least quickly note some of my favorite listening from the week prior — things I’ll later regret having not written about in more depth, so better to share here briefly than not at all.

▰ This 9-minute jam is pretty heavy, even by guitarist Eivind Aarset’s standards, like hearing Dark Magus emerge from Black Sabbath. It’s a new trio, teaming Aarset with drummer Audun Kleive and keyboardist Ståle Storløkken. According to Kleive: “We are currently building our repertoire further.” Eric Furst replied on Mastodon: “It’s a bit like a black hole posting that they are ‘currently in the process of becoming more massive.’”

▰ Some deep interstellar drones from Kamil Kowalczyk, born in Poland and based in Scotland:

▰ There’s a new album, Mosaic, due out in December from Fennesz, and its excellent opening track, “Heliconia,” is a shoegaze expanse you can really get lost in over the course of its 9+ minutes.