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"The strange shapes he was making were flying in the face of tradition beautifully, harnessed by a resonant drone but leaving lots of space for the sounds to breathe... he broke the rhythmic thrust into a series of eddies, swirling patterns, his fingers all over the place; you could tell this man was really having a ball." - Cloudboy, Rottenmeats blog
"somewhere between a mostly unplugged Tom Carter and the classicism of James Blackshaw... Eric Arn is clearly becoming something of a guitar virtuoso." - Michael Wehunt, Foxy Digitalis
"Primordial Undermind mastermind Eric Arn has also been playing psych music since the Reagan years. In the mid ’80s, he came of age in guitar-flailing legends Crystallized Movements, jamming alongside Wayne Rogers and Kate Village before they formed Magic Hour and Major Stars." - P. Funk, Tiny Mix Tapes
"Undermind wunderkind Eric Arn has decided to explore the more avant-garde side of his musical mind. Arn’s hesitant, exploratory guitar work on “Breathe Deep” evokes memories of the current crop of acoustic guitar impresarios, Steffan Basho-Junghans and Harris Newman" - Jeff Penczak, Foxy Digitalis
"“Breathe Deep”... comprised of lovely hanging guitar chords which are left to drift and mutate on the air, space left between them for thought or prayer or, perhaps given title, breath. The cut is very similar to the “Wolf” songs on Six Organs of Admittance’s latest, a traditional tune with long spaces interspersed for meditation, very beautiful and utterly calm" - Jennifer Kelly, Popmatters
"Arn's lead guitar... sears a line across the sky" - Mason Jones, Dusted Magazine
"As a guitarist... he has few equals, his savage riffing and splintering solos leading the group into maze-like vortices of sound" - Richard Rees Jones, Viennese Waltz
Amerikanischer Gitarrist Eric Arn und sein Primordial Undermind haben unermüdlich die unteren Regionen von Avant-Rock Musik seit den letzten 18 Jahren ausgekundschaftet, mit dem Ergebnis einer Schallergiebig Arbeitsgemeinschaft. Eine offene Mitgliedschaft verkörpert das Gruppe, und eine Ruhelosigkeit, zum gesetzt in eine Form zu bleiben hat eine unveränderliche Weiterentwicklung vom verzerrt, psychedelischer Rock Überlastung zur vollerblühten freien instrumentellen Musik und alles zwischen ergeben. Seit dem Ansiedeln in Wien 2005, ist Eric fortgefahren mit dem Undermind, sowie das solo Spielen, als Mitglied des Vienna Improvisors Orchestras und die Magic Carpathians, im Wiener Backing-Band von Jandek und sowie als ein regelmäßiger Sonderspieler bei die Improvisation session am Montag bei Celeste.
American guitarist Eric Arn and his Primordial Undermind have tirelessly mined the nether regions of avant-rock for the past 19 years, resulting in a sonically fertile body of work. Arn cut his teeth in the legendary Crystalized Movements in the 1980’s (the Twisted Village flagship band that spawned Magic Hour and the Major Stars). With a wealth of 7" singles and compilation tracks, plus six albums for the Strange Attractors, Camera Obscura, and Emperor Jones labels, the Primordial trajectory has grown and evolved. A restlessness to stay put has resulted in a steady progression from distorted, psychedelic rock overload to full-blown free instrumental music, and of course everything in between. Since settling in Vienna in 2005, Eric has continued to perform with the Undermind, as well as playing solo, in a duo with Vanessa Arn, as a member of the Vienna Improvisors Orchestra and Krakow's infamous Magic Carpathians, in the Viennese backing band for Jandek and also as a regular featured player at Marco Eneidi's Monday night improvisation sessions at Celeste.
hey eric, i hope everything is fine. are you in town? because i've met a drummer this saturday in upper austria, were i had a dj-job, who is kind of into the same musical ideas like i am and we're going to meet up this week for a session. my idea is that if he's worth something and you have some time, the two of us make a reunion for a jam and try to go into a repetitive, trance and slow noisy direction, maybe a little bit inspired of the thurston moore / nels cline album "pillow wand" i gave you, and if it works out well, we try to play with him. what do you think?
b72 was fun. the next vienna gig is not 100% sure yet, i think we're about to play at the fluc in january. but let's see, just keep on checking our dates from time to tome ;)
I may well do that, if finances allow! I am due a trip to the Netherlands to visit my friend Pete who moved there... I'll look when your shows are and maybe I'll see you at one of them!
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