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Possible Worlds

by Pip

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Possible Worlds 01:06:17

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Possible Worlds 1:06:17


Torstein Lavik Larsen - trumpet, sampler, synthesizer
Fredrik Rasten - two electric fretless guitars, two acoustic guitars, electronics, chimes

The piece is played in one entire take without overdubs or major edits.

Recorded at Flerbruket, Hemnes by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard on September 14 2018.

Mixed by Magnus Skavhaug Nergaard in December 2018, and mastered by Marcus Schmickler in January 2019.

Photos, by unknown photographers, are of Fredrik’s father flying his ultralight plane near Rena in Hedmark, sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s.

Layout by Rutger Zuydervelt.


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Pip’s new album Possible Worlds consists of a single hour long piece of subtle and slowly moving music. The long lasting chords and the mix of electronic and acoustic instruments can bring associations to 70’s pre-ambient works like the duo of Robert Fripp and Brian Eno, or sound like a slower relative of Terry Riley’s synth- and organ escapades from the same era. A major influence on the music is the tradition of Indian Dhrupad music, with its patient and detailed melodic movement of singing or Rudra-veena against the stable sonority of a tanpura.

Possible Worlds is recorded in one entire take without any overdubs or editing, resulting in an organic real time interplay and blend of the sounds. Multiple instruments are played simultaneously, creating a surprisingly generous and orchestral sound for a duo.

A key aspect of the music is the integration of just intonation. The piece features four guitars tuned in open and slightly differing just intonation chords. The fretless necks of the guitars also allow for gradual transitions between notes, and for tonalities unbound by the equal tempered tuning of normal guitar frets. The intonation aspect is also present in the trumpet playing and most of the electronic and synthesized sounds.

The overall musical form and material is composed in a way that relies somewhat on improvisation. Although Pip has been engaged in the improvised field the last years, the improvisation of Possible Worlds has more in common with improvisation in various folk traditions, or with the aforementioned Dhrupad music, where melodic and harmonic aspects of the sound unfold following rules of tonal succession and structure.

Pip has existed since 2006 and during these years they have gone through several different stages of development and approaches to their music. Long lasting, blending sounds with a basis in chords and harmony is an ever recurring element in their music. Pip has toured extensively in Europe. Torstein Lavik Larsen (trumpet, sampler, synthesizer) and Fredrik Rasten (guitars, electronics) are also playing together in the band Oker, together with Jan Martin Gismervik and Adrian Fiskum Myhr, and in the quartet Volumes with Magda Mayas and Isak Hedtjärn.

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released September 27, 2019

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Pip Oslo, Norway

Pip is a Norwegian acoustic duo based in Oslo, mostly playing free improvised music focusing on gradually changing textures.
After a limited editidion CD on the record label ØS in 2015, they are releasing their official debut album at the Portugese label Creative Sources in 2016. The duo has played a large number of concerts in Scandinavia and England.
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