ECM RECORDS

(CD) THE PROMISE
Το Τhe Promise, είναι ο έκτος δίσκος του Βασίλη Tσαμπρόπουλου με την ECM, και, σύμφωνα με τα λεγόμενα του ίδιου του καλλιτέχνη, ο πιο προσωπικός του, μέχρι σήμερα. Ο πολυτάλαντος έλληνας πιανίστας και συνθέτης Βασίλης Τσαμπρόπουλος έχει ήδη διανύσει μια μεγάλη τροχιά στη δισκογραφία της ECM, από την μετα-Bill Evans τζαζ με τον Arild Andersen, μέχρι την εξερεύνηση της μουσικής του Gurdjieff με την Anja Lechner. Το πρώτο σόλο άλμπουμ του πιανίστα Akroasis, (ECM 1737, 2003) βασίστηκε στη βυζαντινή ελληνική μουσική παράδοση, ενώ οι συνθέσεις π...
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(CD) ATHOS
Stephan Micus: Bavarian zither, sattar, shakuhachi, suling, nay, flowerpots, voice. Recorded November 1993-February 1994...
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(2CD) BELLS FOR THE SOUTH SIDE
Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and - for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double album recorded at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell had been invited to premiere new music at the museum, in the context of the exhibition The Freedom Principle, which celebrated the directions in music and art set in motion by the AACM on Chicago's South Side. Starting out by exploring "Spatial Aspects of the Sound", with the ensemble featuring bo...
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(CD) SMALL TOWN
Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York's hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line. The guitarist's rich history with the label also includes multiple recordings by his iconic cooperative trio with Paul Motian and Joe Lovano, culminating in Time and Time Again in 2007. Small Town begins with a tribute to Motian in the form of a searching, 11-minute inter...
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(CD) TITOK
Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snetberger made a lot of new friends with his ECM solo debut In Concert ("a beautiful, assured performance" - All About Jazz) and will make many more with Titok, which features his trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron. Recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in May 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher, it's a warm and involving album, with an emphasis on intensely melodic improvisation and interaction which draws the listener gently into its sound-world. The rapport between Snetberger and ...
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(CD) THE DREAMER IS THE DREAM
For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM's many recordings from New York over the past decade: keyboardist David Virelles, bassist Joe Martin and drummer Marcus Gilmore, who each shine in addition to the leader on multiple horns. The Dreamer Is the Dream features Potter on tenor saxophone - the instrument that has made him one of the most admired players of his gener...
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(CD) OCEAN
Recorded January 1986. Born in 1953 in Germany, Stephan Micus made his first journey to the Orient at the age of sixteen. Fascinated by the variety of musical cultures around the world Micus has travelled in virtually every Asian and European country as well as in Africa and the Americas. Studying with local master musicians he learned to play numerous traditional instruments, many of them unknown in the Western world. However, Micus's intention is not to play these instruments in a traditional manner, but rather to develop the fresh music...
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(CD) FIND THE WAY
For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks - following the solo release Aborescence, which JazzTimes praised as "expansive, impressionistic... like a vision quest" - the prize-winning pianist has convened a trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart. The rhythm pair, which also teams in Hart's hit quartet for ECM, blends fluidity and strength - what Parks calls "an oceanic" quality, producing waves of energy for the pianist to alternately ride and dive into. Find the Way has the aura of a piano-trio recording in the classic mold...
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(CD) QUERCUS: NIGHTFALL
Quercus's self-titled ECM debut won the album-of-the-year award of the German Record Critics in 2013, was widely praised by the international press, and especially celebrated in Britain where June Tabor has long reigned as "the dark voiced queen of English folk music" (to quote The Times). Folk and jazz and chamber music become one in Quercus's world, where recontextualizing of material is part of the process, prompting listeners to pay heightened attention even to familiar songs. Nightfall opens with the most famous of farewells in "Aul...
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(CD) SYMPHONY NO.4
H Τέταρτη Συμφωνία του Arvo Part, με τον υπότιτλο Λος Άντζελες, γράφτηκε το 2008 και έκανε πρεμιέρα τον Ιανουάριο του επόμενου έτους, με τον Esa-Pekka Salonen να διευθύνει την Φιλαρμονική Ορχήστρα του Λος Άντζελες. Η πρώτη αυτή απόδοση της Συμφωνίας αποτυπώνεται στην παρούσα έκδοση. Είναι η πρώτη φορά που εμφανίζεται συμφωνική μουσική του Part στην ECM New Series, την εταιρεία που συνεργάζεται με τον Εσθονό συνθέτη από το 1984 μια χρονιά που σηματοδοτήθηκε από την πρώτη έκδοση έργου του, το Tabula Rasa. Η συμφωνία είναι εξαιρετικά όμορφη, ...
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(CD) JULIA HULSMANN TRIO: SOONER AND LATER
Berlin-based pianist Julia Hulsmann returns to the trio format for Sooner And Later, an album which distils the experience of journeys to distant destinations. In the last couple of years Hulsmann, bassist Marc Muellbauer and drummer Heinrich Kobberling have taken their music around the world, from Europe to the US, Canada, Peru, Central Asia and China, "where something special developed. It helped to open up new sonic territory for us". The Central-Asian weeks find their most explicit echo in the form of "Biz Joluktuk", a tune the band he...
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(CD) RIMUR
Over several summers Trio Mediaeval and trumpeter Arve Henriksen spent many days together by the beautiful Dalsfjorden on the Norwegian west coast, and it was there that most of the music for this recording was born. Fascinated and inspired by Icelandic sagas, beautiful chants, folk songs, religious hymns and fiddle tunes, the quartet has arranged a unique set of songs where improvisation, mediaeval and traditional music from Iceland, Norway and Sweden meet the present. Henriksen has often performed with Trio Mediaeval in live settings - a...
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(CD) DAYLIGHT GHOSTS
Keyboardist Craig Taborn's Daylight Ghosts is the Minneapolis-bred New Yorker's third ECM release as a leader, a quartet album following the solo Avenging Angel and trio disc Chants. Both projects earned wide acclaim, with The Guardian saying that Taborn's "musicality and his attention to detail are hypnotic, as is his remarkable sense of compositional narrative within an improvised performance." Along with the questing Taborn on piano and electronic keyboards, the quartet of Daylight Ghosts features two other luminaries from the New York ...
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(2CD) THE KOLN CONCERT
Το θρυλικό διπλό άλμπουμ του 1975. Το Koln Concert άλλαξε την ιστορία της μουσικής. Σημείωσε τις μεγαλύτερες πωλήσεις σόλο πιάνο δίσκου όλων των εποχών. Η μουσική, ανεξάντλητα εφευρετική και ανυπέρβλητα λυρική αποκαλύπτει έναν δεξιοτέχνη του αυτοσχεδιασμού που δημιουργεί φόρμες και νέες κατευθύνσεις αυτοστιγμεί....
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(CD) THE RETURN
As important as the film's haunting pictures are the carefully edited soundtrack and the music written by Andrey Dergatchev, which seems to evoke an ancient Russia and reminds us, with its Duduk motives and vocals, of Armenian or Georgian folk songs. These are contrasted with the everyday sounds of modern Russia: voices on the radio and on the streets, announcements at the station, wind and torrential rains threatening to swallow up pedestrians, doors slamming, gulls crying, dogs barking... These sounds, in combination with cinematographer...
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(CD) PIANO TRIOS
Είναι από τα παράδοξα της τέχνης: Ο Mozart και ο Beethoven, ο Schubert, ο Mendelssohn, ο Schumann και ο Brahms τίμησαν όλοι τους το είδος του πιάνο τρίο γράφοντας έργα τα οποία ουσιαστικά δεν θα έπρεπε να αποκαλούνται έτσι. Αντί να αποδεχθούν την υπεροχή του πληκτροφόρου οργάνου έναντι των εγχόρδων, οι συνθέτες αυτοί χρησιμοποίησαν τον όρο "πιάνο τρίο" για να δημιουργήσουν μια ισότιμη συνομιλία μεταξύ των οργάνων στην οποία οι μεγάλες αντιθέσεις των ηχοχρωμάτων συγκεράζονται σε ένα υψηλότερο επίπεδο δημιουργώντας ένα νέο ηχητικό αποτέλεσμα...
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(CD) LE VOYAGE DE SAHAR
The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "Brahem has given listeners another of his wondrous offerings, full of deceptively simple compositions that open into a secret world, one where beauty is so present that it is nearly unapproachable, and it is up to the listener to fill in the spaces offered them by this remarkable trio". Recorded at Auditorio Radio Svizzera in Lugano, Switzerland in February 2005....
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(CD) ROLF LISLEVAND
-Rolf Lislevand Baroque guitar, theorbo -Robert de Visee (ca.1655-1732/3) Prelude en re mineur Passacaille en re mineur Les Sylvains de Mr. Couperin Prelude en la mineur La Mascarade, Rondeau Chaconne en la mineur Chaconne en sol majeur La Muzette, Rondeau Passacaille en si mineur Sarabande en si mineur -Francesco Corbetta (ca.1615-1681) Passacaille en sol mineur Partie de Chaconne en ut majeur Sarabanda per la B Caprice de Chaconne Folie...
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(CD) CREATION
Creation signals a departure from the 'traditions' of Keith Jarrett's many ECM recordings of solo improvised piano. Earlier concert recordings have reflected the flow of musical ideas and inspirations as developed in the course of an evening (as on The Koln Concert, Paris Concert, Vienna Concert, Rio etc.) or several evenings (Bremen-Lausanne, Sun Bear Concerts, Testament etc.) Creation - drawn from concert recordings made in Japan, Canada and Europe in 2014 - is different. After reviewing all the music from his 2014 performances, Keith J...
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(CD) REMEMBERANCE
Τα μουσικά θέματα του Ketil Bjornstad, καθώς και η αλληλουχία των συγχορδιών που επιλέγει, παρέχουν την κατάλληλη ατμόσφαιρα και το αρμονικό περιβάλλον όπου μπορούν να κατοικούν οι αναμνήσεις. Στοχαστικά-εσωτερικά σόλο, εξελίσσονται δυναμικά σε αυτοσχεδιασμούς. Και στις δύο περιπτώσεις η μελωδική σαφήνεια υπερτερεί. Ωστόσο, σ' αυτόν τον κύκλο των αναμνήσεων υπάρχει και το στοιχείο της έκπληξης: Στοιχεία απροσδόκητα εκφραστικά διατυπώνονται, που κυρίως προέρχονται από το ιδιοσυγκρασιακό παίξιμο του ντράμερ. Η παραγωγή αυτή πήρε σάρκα και οσ...
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