Jan Bang | Erik Honoré | Eivind Aarset | Samuel Rohrer — Dark Star Safari 
• Erik Honoré (born 11 December 1966 in Kristiansand, Norway) is a Norwegian writer, musician, record producer and sound engineer. As a musician, he has collaborated with Jan Bang, David Sylvian, Brian Eno/Peter Schwalm, Jon Hassell, Nils Petter Molvær, Arve Henriksen, Sidsel Endresen, Unni Wilhelmsen, Eivind Aarset, Claudia Scott, Anne Grete Preus, Savoy and produced all the albums from Velvet Belly.
Location: Oslo, Norway
Album release: May 10, 2019
Record Label: Arjunamusic
Duration: 38:37
Tracks:
01. Labyrinthine 5:53
02. Resilient Star 4:32
03. Family Gospel 1:47
04. Child of Folly 3:20
05. Thoughts and Prayers 3:14
06. Mordechai (A Prophecy) 4:26
07. November’s Child 3:18
08. White Rose 2:46
09. Your Fathers’ Names 4:52
10. Fault Line 4:29
Personnel:
DARK STAR SAFARI
■ Jan Bang — vocals, live sampling, samples, ac. piano, dictaphone
■ Erik Honoré — synthesizer, samples, synth bass, voice, lyrics
■ Eivind Aarset — guitar, electronics, bass
■ Samuel Rohrer — drums, percussion, keys, electronics, synths
Press release by Henning Bolte:
• Dark Star Safari, a newly formed group featuring Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Samuel Rohrer present its eponymous recording debut, an evocative song~driven album. These songs conjure shadows of memory, clouds of dreaming and silhouettes of foreboding through the album’s layered, many~textured fabrics and Jan Bang’s silken delivery of Erik Honoré’s acute lyrics.
• Dark Star Safari is the work of four kindred spirits, their open modus operandi, and a remarkably interconnected creative nerve system. Key to their collaboration is an organic freedom that enables the music „to fill itself in“, to be self~actualizing via the musicians as medium. The music of the 10 songs resulted from a two~stage process: an initial phase of free flowing open improvisation, and a subsequent exploratory phase where hidden potentials were discovered and nurtured.
• Availability: CD, DL, Vinyl
• Distribution: KOMPAKT (Rough Trade, Forced Exposure, Border, Disk Union)
• Promotion: Dense Promotion, Jim Johnstone — Ampersand PR
• Produced by Dark Star Safari
• Recorded in Dec. 2017 and mixed in June 2018 by Ingo Krauss at Candybomber Studio Berlin. Additional recordings at Punkt Studio Kristiansand, The Green Room and home~studios in Oslo and Berlin during Spring/Summer 2018. Mastering and Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering Berlin, December 2018.
Bandcamp: https://arjunamusic-records.bandcamp.com/album/dark-star-safari
Website EH: http://www.aagrehonore.com/
Label: http://www.arjunamusic.com/
HIS VOICE: https://www.hisvoice.cz/jan-bang-narrative-from-the-subtropics/
Location: Oslo, Norway
Album release: May 10, 2019
Record Label: Arjunamusic
Duration: 38:37
Tracks:
01. Labyrinthine 5:53
02. Resilient Star 4:32
03. Family Gospel 1:47
04. Child of Folly 3:20
05. Thoughts and Prayers 3:14
06. Mordechai (A Prophecy) 4:26
07. November’s Child 3:18
08. White Rose 2:46
09. Your Fathers’ Names 4:52
10. Fault Line 4:29
Personnel:
DARK STAR SAFARI
■ Jan Bang — vocals, live sampling, samples, ac. piano, dictaphone
■ Erik Honoré — synthesizer, samples, synth bass, voice, lyrics
■ Eivind Aarset — guitar, electronics, bass
■ Samuel Rohrer — drums, percussion, keys, electronics, synths
Press release by Henning Bolte:
• Dark Star Safari, a newly formed group featuring Jan Bang, Erik Honoré, Eivind Aarset and Samuel Rohrer present its eponymous recording debut, an evocative song~driven album. These songs conjure shadows of memory, clouds of dreaming and silhouettes of foreboding through the album’s layered, many~textured fabrics and Jan Bang’s silken delivery of Erik Honoré’s acute lyrics.
• Dark Star Safari is the work of four kindred spirits, their open modus operandi, and a remarkably interconnected creative nerve system. Key to their collaboration is an organic freedom that enables the music „to fill itself in“, to be self~actualizing via the musicians as medium. The music of the 10 songs resulted from a two~stage process: an initial phase of free flowing open improvisation, and a subsequent exploratory phase where hidden potentials were discovered and nurtured.
• Availability: CD, DL, Vinyl
• Distribution: KOMPAKT (Rough Trade, Forced Exposure, Border, Disk Union)
• Promotion: Dense Promotion, Jim Johnstone — Ampersand PR
• Produced by Dark Star Safari
• Recorded in Dec. 2017 and mixed in June 2018 by Ingo Krauss at Candybomber Studio Berlin. Additional recordings at Punkt Studio Kristiansand, The Green Room and home~studios in Oslo and Berlin during Spring/Summer 2018. Mastering and Vinyl cut by Mike Grinser at Manmade Mastering Berlin, December 2018.
Bandcamp: https://arjunamusic-records.bandcamp.com/album/dark-star-safari
Website EH: http://www.aagrehonore.com/
Label: http://www.arjunamusic.com/
HIS VOICE: https://www.hisvoice.cz/jan-bang-narrative-from-the-subtropics/