Arne Jansen - THE SLEEP OF REASON (ACT 2013)

"The thing that fascinates me about Goya is that throughout the course of his life he continually closes in on what he considers to be the essence of being human," Berlins most interesting guitarist Arne Jansen says about the spanish painter Francisco Goya, whose pictures inspired him to his ACT-debut ""The Sleep of Reason - Ode to Goya".

Arne Jansen / electric & acoustic guitars, upright piano on 10
Andreas Edelmann / bass
Eric Schaefer / drums
Friedrich Paravicini / Hammond organ, keys, cello, vibraphone

Further Musicians: 
Stephan Braun / cello on 01 & 03
Nils Wülker / flugelhorn on 07

If you've ever heard the Berlin guitarist Arne Jansen, you'll know how difficult it is to forget his special sound. That passionate rummaging around in the warm diversity of the electric guitar, where bashful understatement mixes with playful sensuality. The humaneness become sound that always searches for what is special in the commonplace, exudes serenity and yet never itself comes to rest because its quest never ceases.

Originally from Flensburg, Jansen moved to Berlin in 1996 to study jazz guitar at the University of the Arts until 2001. In workshops with Pat Metheny, John Abercrombie, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Philip Catherine he honed his craft and was soon playing alongside stars like Gitte Haenning, Tim Fischer and Katja Riemann. In the bands Jazzanova and, since 2010, the Nils Wülker Group, Jansen also attracted a lot of attention, but the centre of his creative universe is his own trio, with which he has released two critically acclaimed albums.

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