Revive this. I just discovered the entire ECM catalog is on Mog.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 10 March 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
The first record by Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber's keyboardist in Colors, is awesome. Kenny Wheeler and Jon Christiansen. No bass!
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 March 2013 12:40 (eleven years ago) link
Other finds via MOG:
Azimuth -- Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone on cox and John Taylor on piano and Berlin-sounding EMS arpeggios. 1977! Pieces of this feel like Klaus Schulze and Joni Mitchell getting high on a mountaintop somewhere.
Jack DeJohnette and John Surman -- The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon. More synths -- this time with bass clarinet and congas. Very cool.
Barre Phillps -- Mountainscapes. Yet more synths!! Feisty and swinging, synths provide atmosphere and texture for John Surman to bounce off. Again: 1976.
Keith Jarrett -- Spheres. Another record which has traces of Krautrock, and from the most unlikely of places. "Spheres, 9th Movement" sounds like something from Tangerine Dream before they left Ohr. Not thinking the similarities are intentional.
Eberhard Weber -- The Following Morning. In the non-electronic ECM edition, this comes w Rainer Brüninghaus on piano, but no percussion, just orchestra. Big fan of Weber's Pendulum as well, which is overdubbed bass -- which in his case is awesome, not horrifying.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 16 March 2013 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Spheres has just been reissued; was sent a link to download it. Maybe now I will.
― 誤訳侮辱, Saturday, 16 March 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
nice mixhttp://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/anenon-all-ecm-everything-mix
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 26 September 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
i identify with this label too much, i think.
some of their classical stuff is not so great, maybe.
jamming a whole bunch of ECM paul bley albums recently.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
a few years ago i bought an eberhard weber LP just b/c it looked really nice and was like $12 for a NM LP. wasn't sure what to expect. ended up really really digging it.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
open, to love. is possibly my favorite 1960s-or-late solo piano record
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
1960s-or-later. i can't type today
"ida lupino" is the highlight for me
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
the fairly recent Alexei Lubimov disc of all the Debussy Preludes is among the best ever made of those pieces.
All of their Kurtag releases rule.
I wish I had a copy of Kim Kashkashian/Robert Levin's recording of the Brahms Viola Sonatas.
― von Daniken Donuts (Jon Lewis), Friday, 26 September 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
i hate that every time i see the name Kim kashkashian I think Kim Kardashian
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
though kim kardashian also has an album on ECM. it's a trio record with paul motian and jack dejohnette, i believe.
(gets busy making mock-up ECM album cover featuring a pastoral landscape with the title "sex tape" superimposed in a sans-serif font)
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
hahahaha!
― Dick Clownload (Dan Peterson), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
fun listening to this ECM mix without checking the tracklist first
― ugh (lukas), Friday, 26 September 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
roffles
kim kardashian is a filthy whore
cheers,n
― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 September 2014 21:50 (nine years ago) link
celebrity sex tapes are everywhere nowadays
― mattresslessness, Friday, 26 September 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
yeah, though i wish i hadn't seen the paul/carla bley one, lots of awkward silences
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 26 September 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
http://ecmreviews.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/elixir.jpg
This is my favourite ECM release of recent years. I love Marilyn Mazur's band albums a lot too (though the best of those aren't on ECM, but on various Scandinavian lables), but there's just something beautifully primal about the combination of mere percussion and sax... I'm not sure if you should even call this jazz, it's just some deep organic ambient cowbell chants.
― Tuomas, Friday, 26 September 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
Ah, this is what I needed today, Tuomas, thanks!
Recently I picked up a free ECM sampler from 2011 or something, and a Jacob Young track on there called "Time Rebel" really stood out. I'd post a link but it's not on Youtube. Anyway, the tune is just beautiful, especially the percussion. I guess they are playing "time," but damn if I know what it is! The whole album is really, err, impressionistic, really haunted-sounding. The album doesn't deviate stylistically much from the one track I heard, which is fine by me. I will concede that something about the tone of the tone of the trumpet occasionally reminds me of Chuck Mangione, but, well...minor complaint.
Also, TS: Windham Hill Vs ECM? Actually, nevermind, I may start a separate thread for that.
― Wimmels, Friday, 17 July 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
not one mention of Mal Waldron on this thread and he was ECM_001 and pretty fucking badass!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:04 (eight years ago) link
think he was also the first release on japo (ecm sister label?) featuring wolfgang dauner's rhythm section of the time... (add to the list of albums i need to hear)
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:29 (eight years ago) link
Sieg Haile off his Moods album is ridic+
― calzino, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:53 (eight years ago) link
I hate that none of this is streaming now that Mog is dead.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 4 June 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
Reading about MOG it looks like it was the grandfather? of Apple Music, so does anyone know why ECM isn't on there?
― MrExplorer, Saturday, 4 June 2016 08:02 (eight years ago) link
I'd guess that Eicher - a known stickler for sound quality - would not really be into streaming.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 4 June 2016 10:35 (eight years ago) link
Maybe not – but he did license the entire ECM catalogue to MOG.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 5 June 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hk7fFzPGxM
― Trucutru (lpz), Monday, 6 June 2016 19:42 (eight years ago) link
Search "Silence" (Charlie Haden) from Magico (Haden, Gismonti, Garbarek). So simple and so sad. The tune is like an arrow made from a feather piercing my heart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW93IP5tnY0
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:48 (seven years ago) link