Higher Order, by Eric Arn

Higher Order

by Eric Arn

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	1.	6 or 7 Adepts 06:02
	2.	Warpage in the Figures 04:35
	3.	The Glass Scarab 05:34
	4.	Wer Tauben füttert, füttert Gespenster 04:22
	5.	Palais Mesmer 03:57
	6.	Meandric System 04:06
	7.	Blumenfelder 04:26
	8.	Paean 04:05
	9.	Greets the Dawn 04:19

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Virtuosity isn't always bad. In the hands of most, it leads to complete schlock. Don't believe me? Just walk into any guitar shop. But in the case of Eric Arn, it provides all the tools he needs to create compelling and in-depth guitar music. This release, his third solo effort, consists of 8 tracks of both improvised and composed acoustic guitar work, and finishes with a lush, perfectly titled (Greets the Dawn) electric guitar drone-space.

At times, Eric sounds like a cross between Django Reinhardt and Derek Bailey, and at other times, he's forging his own brand of Americana (via Austria), with Eastern, psych, and experimental influences, echoing the sounds of John Fahey, John Martyn, and Popol Vuh. Ranking right up there with releases by contemporaries such as Richard Bishop, Jack Rose (RIP), David Grubbs, Daniel Bachman, and Rob Noyes, High Order is an amazing mix of frenetic fingering and strumming, along with pieces that use space, tempo shifts, and melody to build super-descriptive narratives and landscapes; notes cascading like ice water running down a mountainside; dragging your ears thru a thorny thicket of sharp sonics; exploring ancient wooden churches with rotting floorboards.

Eric Arn has mined the nether regions of avant-rock, free improv, drone and psychedelia beginning with the Crystalized Movements in the 1980s, and continuing with Primordial Undermind for over three decades.

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released May 7, 2021

Recorded in Vienna 2018-2019 (except Greets the dawn, Italy 2015) by Eric and Boxer John. Mastered by James Plotkin.

Front artwork by David Schweighart, photographed by Jen Rapouch, meddled with by Eric. Back photo and layout by Joe Tunis.

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Carbon Records is a small independent record label based in Rochester NY. Releasing records since the summer of 1994. It started out as a vehicle for local bands, but it has grown to supporting other national and international bands. The catalog ranges from (some) indie pop/rock to improv/noise/drone/experimental releases. ... more

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