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Jon Balke: Nonsentration

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 02 Apr 2009 04:50:20 | Comments : 0

Jon Balke: Nonsentration
Jazz | Time 43:18 | MP3 320k | Size 123 Mb
Released 1992 | Label ECM 1445 | Scan inc.

“Jon Balke (1955) was born in Furnes, Norway, and has been a professional musician since 1974. Balke has no formal education in music or composition and has mainly worked within the realm of improvised music. His main instrument has been the piano and this has lead, in time, to the use of electronic keyboards. ”
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Dave Liebman: Lookout Farm

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 28 Mar 2009 04:06:33 | Comments : 1

Dave Liebman: Lookout Farm
Jazz | Time 46:13 | MP3 320k | Size 106 Mb
Released 1973 | Label ECM 1039 | Covers

“For saxophonist/flutist David Liebman, the collective septet Lookout Farm earmarked him as an emergent band leader and conceptualist, not to mention top-of-the-heap unabashed improviser, especially on the soprano. With Richie Beirach on acoustic piano, identifying him as the post-Lennie Tristano disciple of the '70s, electric guitarist John Abercrombie...”
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Arild Andersen: Clouds In My Head

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 28 Mar 2009 00:29:36 | Comments : 4

Arild Andersen: Clouds In My Head
Jazz | Time 44:17 | MP3 320k | Size 102 Mb
Released 1975 | Label ECM 1059 | Covers

“b. 27 October 1945, Lilleström, Norway. Andersen's career as a jazz bass player began under the tutelage of Karel Netolicka and the influential American jazz composer and theorist George Russell, who was then resident in Sweden. From 1966-73 Andersen toured throughout Scandinavia, working with Russell's orchestra and sextet, Jan Garbarek's trio and quartet, Karin Krog, Edward Vesala and others.”

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Gallery

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 27 Mar 2009 02:26:05 | Comments : 5

Gallery
Jazz | Time 43:11 | MP3 320k | Size 99 Mb
Released 1981 | Label ECM 1206 | Covers

“A talented multi-instrumentalist, Paul McCandless is best-known for his longtime association with Oregon and for the loating and meditative sounds that he achieves out of his unusual combination of instruments. ”

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Stephan Micus: Implosions

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 25 Mar 2009 14:43:26 | Comments : 0

Stephan Micus: Implosions
Jazz | Time 43:38 | MP3 320k | Size 104 Mb
Released 1977 | Label ECM 3617 | Scan inc.

“The music on this album is not Japanese, Indian, Afghani...not Bavarian - it is not traditional music... call it what you will. There has been the sincere desire to understand the essence of these cultures.”
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Vassilis Tsabropoulos: The Promise

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 23 Mar 2009 20:23:46 | Comments : 5

Vassilis Tsabropoulos: The Promise
Jazz | Time 55:18 | MP3 320k | Size 56 Mb
Released 2009 | Label ECM 2081 | Full scan

“The versatile Greek pianist has already outlined a broad arc of musical possibility in his recordings for ECM – from post-Bill Evans jazz with Arild Andersen to explorations of Gurdjieff’s nomadic sound-world with Anja Lechner. “The Promise” picks up the implications of his earlier solo recital “Akroasis” (“Hypnotic and mysterious, shimmering like ancient mosaics” – The Independent), but is more rigorously composed, carefully casting arpeggios into deep pools of silence.”
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Bill Frisell: In Line

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 23 Mar 2009 06:17:34 | Comments : 2

Bill Frisell: In Line
Jazz | Time 42:59 | MP3 320k | Size 104 Mb
Released 1983 | Label ECM 1241 | Scan Inc.

“For his first recording under his own name, Bill Frisell, then ECM Records house guitarist, presented nine of his compositions in the most personal way, going it alone on four pieces with just overdubs of his guitars and playing the other five in duet with bassist Arild Andersen. The 1982 recording is a remarkable debut, filled with such light and calm that its originality might go overlooked.”
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Marilyn Crispell Trio: Storyteller

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 21 Mar 2009 17:33:17 | Comments : 3

Marilyn Crispell Trio: Storyteller
Jazz | Time 60:53 | MP3 320k | Size 162 Mb
Released 2004 | Label ECM 1847 | Full scan inc.

“Improvised music is often described as a conversation. Consider album titles like Conversations with Myself , Interconnection , and Duologues. Pianist Marilyn Crispell's last two recordings for ECM, Nothing Ever Was, Anyway and the quietly dramatic Amaryllis , placed her in discussion with two artists who have proven to be brilliant communicators over lengthy careers, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Paul Motian.”
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Steve Tibbetts: Exploded View

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 21 Mar 2009 02:57:02 | Comments : 3

Steve Tibbetts: Exploded View
Jazz | Time 38:16 | MP3 320k | Size 90 Mb
Released 1986 | Label ECM 1335 | No scan

“Opening with a bang that builds to a thunderstorm, Exploded View is the definitive Steve Tibbets album. His electric guitar howls defiantly without a lot of power chords or convention, and his musicianship is top-notch, perhaps an Adrian Belew without the pop, plus a nod toward world music in production value. Tibbets scrapes and tears through the sky ("Name Everything," "Your Cat") with jaw-dropping intensity, but it would all be too much if there weren't such rich texture and softness folded into the disc as well.”
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Steve Tibbetts: Big Map Idea

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 20 Mar 2009 01:16:51 | Comments : 2

Steve Tibbetts: Big Map Idea
Jazz | Time 52:46 | MP3 320k | Size 131 Mb
Released 1989 | Label ECM 1386 | Scan inc.

“Experimental guitar collides with tabla, kalimba, pianolin, cello, steel drum and other percussion instruments, and tapes of "found sounds." The CD opens with a lush cover of Jimmy Page's "Black Mountain Side," and ever afterwards devotes itself to the vast, mysterious explorations of Tibbetts and percussionist Marc Anderson.”
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Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 19 Mar 2009 02:47:57 | Comments : 5

Arvo Part: Tabula Rasa
Classical | Time 54:59 | MP3 320k | Size 135 Mb
Released 1984 | Label ECM 1275 | Covers

“1984, the essential record of Tabula Rasa was released on ECM records. The recording features not only the title composition performed by the Lithuanian hamber Orchestra featuring Gidon Kramer on Violin (for whom Pärt wrote the exquisitely contemplative and hypnotic title work) and Alfred Schnittke on prepared piano, but the equally beautiful composition "Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten" and two versions of "Fratres"; a star performance from Keith Jarrett, and Gideon Kremer and its most sublime version for 12 cellos performed by the 12 Cellist of The Berlin Philharmonic.”
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Arbo Pärt: Arbos

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 18 Mar 2009 13:06:18 | Comments : 3

Arvo Pärt: Arbos
Classical | Time 59:18 | MP3 320k | Size 105 Mb
Released 1987 | Label ECM 1325 | Covers

“This release is dedicated to the Russian filmmaker, Andrei Tarkovsky, who died not long before the recording was published in 1987. In fact, it might not be too much of a stretch to compare the majestic, epiphanic quality of Part's devotional compositions to Tarkovsky's slow, stately piece about the Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev. In both cases, there's a sense of spirituality evoked through small gestures. For example, 'An Den Wassern Zu Babel', composed for four voices and organ, is a thing of great melancholy and simplicity that has an understated aura of mysticism that incrementally escalates over its six and a half minute duration.”
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Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin: Elegies

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 17 Mar 2009 12:49:22 | Comments : 5

Kim Kashkashian, Robert Levin: Elegies
Classical | Time 50:33 | MP3 320k | Size 123 Mb
Released 1986 | Label ECM NS 1316 | Scan inc.

“This elegiac music seems very well-suited to the dark sound of the viola. Kashkashian plays it simply and very expressively, without slides or sentimentality; glowing and shimmering, her tone is pure, warm, inflected. The program has great variety. Britten's mournful Lachrymae (Reflections on a Song of John Dowland) comes to an agitated climax and ends with an old chorale.”
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Denny Zeitlin, Charlie Haden: Time Remembers One time Once

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 16 Mar 2009 13:23:38 | Comments : 3

Denny Zeitlin, Charlie Haden: Time Remembers One time Once
Jazz | Time 53:39 | MP3 320k | Size 129 Mb
Released 1981 | Label ECM 1239 | Covers

“Denny Zeitlin appears an as acoustic pianist, in subtle duo interaction with Charlie Haden, the bassist from hisearlier trios, and one og the three or four style building bass players in modern jazz. This music is... crazy, adventurous, with harmonic side-tracks leading off the usual mountain trails... never the artistic "format"... the Zeitlin-Haden cooperation is not just another "lad" duo experiment but rather a discourse which is at the same time meditative and relaxed like Bill Evans and constructively dee-thinking like Thelonious Monk. A super album for fans of subtler joys. --Weltwoche magazin.”
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Dave Holland: Seeds of time

Posted By : Rommeo | Date : 15 Mar 2009 13:21:40 | Comments : 2

Dave Holland: Seeds of time
Jazz | Time 52:39 | MP3 320k | Size 127 Mb
Released 1985 | Label ECM 1292 | Scan inc.

“In the mid-1980s, bassist Dave Holland led his finest group, a quintet with up-and-coming altoist Steve Coleman, trombonist Julian Priester, trumpeter Kenny Wheeler and (on this date) drummer Marvin "Smitty" Smith. The all-star musicians pack plenty of music and concise solos into each performance (nine originals), and the unique group carved out its own niche, not quite free but certainly unpredictable. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide.”
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