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Marilyn Crispell: Nothing Ever Was Anyway

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 20 Apr 2009 02:41:57 | Comments : 3

Marilyn Crispell: Nothing Ever Was Anyway
Jazz | Time 46:52+40:40 | MP3 320k | Size 203 Mb
Released 1997 | Label ECM 1626/27 | Scan inc.

“Annette Peacock is a singer/pianist whose influence outweighs the popularity of her music. Peacock was one of the first singers to incorporate the use of live electronics with her singing, and her compositions have been performed by talents as diverse as Paul Bley, Bill Bruford, Pat Metheny and Militant The Madd Rapper. Her pieces are spacious, austere, unsentimental and oddly lyrical.”
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John Cage: Early Piano Music

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 19 Apr 2009 05:11:08 | Comments : 8

John Cage: Early Piano Music
Classical | Time 69:13 | MP3 320k | Size 152 Mb
Released 2005 | Label ECM 1844 | Front

“Difficult listening here. If you were expecting Windham Hill, change the channel now! That being said, while this is not terribly approachable music, it is very well performed by Mr. Henck and is exquisitely recorded in typical ECM fashion.”
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Mat Maneri: Trinity

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 17 Apr 2009 20:10:05 | Comments : 2

Mat Maneri: Trinity
Jazz, avant garde | Time 63:46 | MP3 320k | Size 148 Mb
Released 2001 | Label ECM 1719 | Scan inc.

“Modernist and improvising raconteur, violinist Mat Maneri opts for the solo route on this newly released effort, titled Trinity. No doubt, you’d better be good in order to sustain continual interest during a sixty-minute solo performance. Hence, such is the case here as the violinist takes on compositions by frequent collaborator, guitarist Joe Morris, Eric Dolphy and an engaging piece written by Mat’s legendary father, saxophonist/educator and conqueror of microtonal jazz-based excursions Joe Maneri.”
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Ute Lemper: Sings Kurt Weill Vol I

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 16 Apr 2009 03:24:37 | Comments : 4

Ute Lemper: Sings Kurt Weill Vol I
Classical, Operetta | Time 50:11 | MP3 320k | Size 122 Mb
Released 1988 | Label London | Covers

“Asked by Decca Records, Michael Haas was searching for the singer of Weill album. He thought it should not be a professional classical singer, it should be an actress singer like Lotte Lenya. After a long research, Haas encountered a German born actress, Ute Lemper. He discovered "the ideal combination of astonishing musicality and a text awareness which is both idiomatic and sensitive, whether the texts are German, French or English." This album is a cleverly well produced one.”
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Ute Lemper: Sings Kurt Weill Vol II

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 16 Apr 2009 03:22:10 | Comments : 4

Ute Lemper: Sings Kurt Weill Vol II
Classical, Operetta | Time 50:11 | MP3 320k | Size 142 Mb
Released 1993 | Label London | Covers

“In 1992 Lemper collaborated with Michael Nyman to record Songbook. The two artists created music to accompany lyrics based on classic verse by such famous poets as Paul Celan, Arthur Rimbaud, and William Shakespeare. Lemper also performed the role of Lola in Berlin's five-month run of The Blue Angel in 1992. After her performance, she moved back to Berlin and recorded Kurt Weill Songs, Volume II, on London Records. Later in the year, she released another LP, Illusions--her personal interpretation of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich songs.”
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Joe Maneri: Angles of Repose

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 15 Apr 2009 00:59:19 | Comments : 1

Joe Maneri: Angles of Repose
Avant garde | Time 71:11 | MP3 320k | Size 161 Mb
Released 2004 | Label ECM 1862 | Front

“The new impulses that the father-and-son team of Joe and Mat Maneri have brought to experimental jazz are increasingly acknowledged by their fellow musicians as amongst the most important developments in contemporary free playing. The Maneris’ improvised chamber music, as radical as it is graceful, brings the yearning passions of jazz and blues together with lessons learned from Schoenberg, microtonalism, and a dozen world music traditions.”
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Joe Maneri: Tales of Rohnlief

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 14 Apr 2009 02:57:50 | Comments : 3

Joe Maneri: Tales of Rohnlief
Avant garde | Time 64:54 | MP3 320k | Size 150 Mb
Released 1999 | Label ECM 1678 | Scan inc.

“ Tales Of Rohnlief represents woodwind specialist Joe Maneri’s fourth recording for the ECM label. Along with his son, violinist and respected solo artist Mat Maneri and the venerable bassist Barre Phillips, the musicians once again pursue microtonal passages and highly conversational interplay while also utilizing space and undulating sequences or implied meter to their advantage.”

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Heinz Reber: Mnaomai, Mnomai

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 12 Apr 2009 02:37:39 | Comments : 0

Heinz Reber: Mnaomai, Mnomai
Avant garde | Time 40:17 | MP3 320k | Size 92 Mb
Released 1991 | Label ECM 1378 | No scan

“Since 1992 residence in Vienna, guest professor at the Academy for solo voice and musicdramatical expression at the University of Music and performings Arts Vienna. He died on August 14 th 2007 in accordance with the way he wished to, serenely, after a long illness. Digital Recording, October 1990, Rainbow Studio, Oslo. Engineer: Jan Erik Kongshaug, Cover Photos Design: Dieter Rehm
Produced by Manfred Eicher		”
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Mark Feldman: What Exit

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 11 Apr 2009 02:32:37 | Comments : 3

Mark Feldman: What Exit
Jazz | Time 70:41 | MP3 320k | Size 177 Mb
Released 2006 | Label ECM 1928 | Scan inc.

“If we are the sum of our experiences, then Mark Feldman represents an exceptional aggregate. The classically trained violinist is closely associated with the New York Downtown scene, where there seems to be few, if any, musical boundaries. He may be best known for collaborations with artists like John Zorn, Dave Douglas and John Abercrombie, but look into his past and you’ll find fusion work with percussionist Trilok Gurtu, country music with Loretta Lynn, and reggae with Sly and Robbie. His ECM debut leans closer to the new music/improvised work of pianist Sylvie Courvoisier’s Abaton (ECM, 2003) trio with cellist Erik Friedlander. But with a more conventional piano/bass/drums rhythm section and Feldman’s broad purview, it’s a more integrated mix of jazz and classical aesthetics.”
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Michael Galasso: Scenes

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 09 Apr 2009 00:12:05 | Comments : 3

Michael Galasso: Scenes
Avant-Garde | Time 39:51 | MP3 320k | Size 91 Mb
Released 1983 | Label ECM 1245 | Scan inc.

“This is a shining example of the minimalist genre, it distills music down to it's bare essential elements and extracts the crisp raw emotional content of melody, harmony, and rhythm and delivers it with intensity and artistry. Put another way, this is simply very beautiful music. The violin work is expressive and powerful.”
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Paul Bley: Solo in Mondsee

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 07 Apr 2009 18:13:40 | Comments : 3

Paul Bley: Solo in Mondsee
Jazz | Time 55:38 | MP3 320k | Size 135 Mb
Released 2007 | Label ECM 1786 | Scan inc.

“Solo in Mondsee is the first solo piano album from Paul Bley on ECM in 35 years! It is the belated `sequel' to 1972's innovative and enduring Open, To Love and is being released in Bley's 75th year. On this creative and profound improvised recital, Bley develops a fascinating program. Kaleidoscopically splintered melodies, distant memories of standards, abstractions of the blues and spontaneous free playing are some of the subjects of the "Mondsee Variations." Simply put, Paul Bley (b 1932) is one of the most influential pianists in the entire history of jazz.”
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Steve Kuhn: Remembering Tomorrow

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 07 Apr 2009 01:11:25 | Comments : 5

Steve Kuhn: Remembering Tomorrow
Jazz | Time 68:34 | MP3 320k | Size 172 Mb
Released 1996 | Label ECM 1573 | Scan inc.

“Steve Kuhn's sound is all about tone. He is able to extract jewel-like impressionism from simple, singing melodies. Like most of his early ECM recordings, now tragically out of print, Remembering Tomorrow gives ample demonstration of Kuhn's more introspective side. A rolling, romantic current fills out the spare arrangements throughout.”
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Ketil Bjørnstad: Water Stories

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 03 Apr 2009 04:30:53 | Comments : 5

Ketil Bjørnstad: Water Stories
Jazz | Time 58:08:04 | MP3 320k | Size 139 Mb
Released 1993 | Label ECM 1503 | Covers

“Ketil Bjørnstad and Terje Rypdal’s ECM recordings together have included Bjørnstad’s “Water Stories” and albums with The Sea, the quartet whose line-up was completed by cellist David Darling and drummer Jon Christensen. In 1999 they made their first experiments with duo playing, and have since toured the world with their highly unorthodox format of cranked-amp guitar and acoustic piano. ”
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Jon Balke: Further

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 03 Apr 2009 04:23:46 | Comments : 2

Jon Balke: Further
Jazz | Time 42:54 | MP3 320k | Size 105 Mb
Released 1994 | Label ECM 1517 | Covers

“Balke was a founder-member of the group Masqualero and appears on their ECM debut “Bande A Part”, 1985, and he is composer/arranger/director of the group Oslo 13 (album “Nonsentration”, 1990). He continues to lead the Magnetic North Orchestra (albums: “Further”, 1993; “Kyanos”, 2001; “Diverted Travels”, 2003) and is a member of the percussion-centred collective Batagraf (album: “Statements”, 2004).”
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Dave Holland: Dream of the Elders

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 02 Apr 2009 12:22:38 | Comments : 2

Dave Holland: Dream of the Elders
Jazz | Time 77:04 | MP3 320k | Size 196 Mb
Released 1996 | Label ECM 1572 | Full scan

“Here's the great Dave Holland, presenting a mixed album that at times flies, at times stumbles. Saxophonist Eric Person may not rank as the most striking sideman in the Holland quartet and quintet pantheon, but he's no slouch, either. And he is well shored up by three masterly collaborators. On vibes and marimba, Steve Nelson takes the time to find an unpredictable but just-right path in his solos, and nicely expands the group's sonic range. ”
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