ECM s/d.

thanks - tho I meant a physical copy!

Was enjoying Eberhard Weber's Yellow Fields the other day, kind of similar to a lot of the music on Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom.

Must check that out, dude played on a lot of Wolfgang Dauner stuff, so he's a'right by me

Dunno any of his other stuff at all, so it might not be all that compared to the rest of his oeuvre. I do know he's Kate Bush's bass player though.

sweet - I always admired the Pastorius-ish tones of the bass on some of KB's records (esp. Sensual World) so I'd def be interested in hearing this guy.

Well Mick Karn and John Giblin are also on that so it could be them, Weber's on double bass.

Giblin's got a funny discog btw, he was the bass player on Scott Walker's Tilt AND Chris De Burgh's Lady In Red.

If anybody wants to hear some of the Villalobos thing I've thrown a few track up on http://outloud.fm/ILXORS

thanks - tho I meant a physical copy!

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 17 June 2011 10:34 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I had a feeling you meant that as soon as I posted it.

I've been exploring ECM releases recently with some help from this thread (and the other one). So far I've picked up John Abercrombie's "Gateway" and Eberhard Weber's "Colors of Chloe", both of which are exactly the sort of thing I was looking for - atmospheric, pretty but with enough going on to save them from being background music. "Gateway" is a bit more fusion-y, and "Chloe" is more minimalist, but both are great.

if you like calm, impressionist, folk-based jazz with a world touch i'd recommend anouar brahem, eg conte de l'incroyable amour. brahem is a tunisian oud player and the sound of his music is rather restrained and slightly oriental. one of the best on ecm these days.

Revive this. I just discovered the entire ECM catalog is on Mog.

The first record by Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber's keyboardist in Colors, is awesome. Kenny Wheeler and Jon Christiansen. No bass!

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.

Spheres has just been reissued; was sent a link to download it. Maybe now I will.

nice mix
http://www.imposemagazine.com/bytes/new-music/anenon-all-ecm-everything-mix

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.

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.

open, to love. is possibly my favorite 1960s-or-late solo piano record

1960s-or-later. i can't type today

"ida lupino" is the highlight for me

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.

i hate that every time i see the name Kim kashkashian I think Kim Kardashian

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)

hahahaha!

fun listening to this ECM mix without checking the tracklist first

roffles

kim kardashian is a filthy whore

cheers,
n

celebrity sex tapes are everywhere nowadays

yeah, though i wish i hadn't seen the paul/carla bley one, lots of awkward silences

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.

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.

not one mention of Mal Waldron on this thread and he was ECM_001 and pretty fucking badass!

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)

Sieg Haile off his Moods album is ridic+

I hate that none of this is streaming now that Mog is dead.

Reading about MOG it looks like it was the grandfather? of Apple Music, so does anyone know why ECM isn't on there?

I'd guess that Eicher - a known stickler for sound quality - would not really be into streaming.

Maybe not – but he did license the entire ECM catalogue to MOG.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hk7fFzPGxM

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