Trance is the day
March 11, 2020

Musicians Wacław Zimpel and James Holden interview each other

Polish jazz musician Wacław Zimpel made the 'The Long Weekend' EP with British electronic producer James Holden, a rich jazz electronica album, with a trance quality, which is where both musicians come together. They interviewed each other for the Quietus, this is how they see their common ground: "I've got a million definitions for trance - but the first sign for me is when you start hearing inside the sound, or outside linear time - notes aren't just a note in a place in a sequence but exist in relation to all the previous and future versions of themselves" - Holden; "to me one of the ways of getting to this state of mind is via repetition of a pattern. After many repetitions I stop thinking about this and I become equally listener and player. Eventually I have the feeling that I am disappearing" - Zimpel.