― gear (gear), Friday, 19 May 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
I've got Thimar by Anouar Brahem which has Dave Holland and John Surman, but have only given it a couple of full plays. It hasn't really stuck with me either way.
I've also got a few of the Rarum collections including the one on The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bill Frisell and Jan Garbarek. I think the Art Ensemble is the best of the three. I like the real icy stuff on the Garbarek album, but some of the I guess world fusion/classical kind of music I did not really get. The Frisell one is also a good listen.
Another ECM artist I have a couple of records by that are pretty good are John Abercrombie's Timeless and a couple of the Gateway trio records with Jack DeJohnette and Dave Holland. Cinematic Orchestra must like some Abercrombie, as I think they sampled him a couple of times.
I would like to hear some of Paul Motian's trio albums with Frisell and Joe Lovano. I'd also like to get Ralph Towner's "Solstice".
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 19 May 2006 03:53 (seventeen years ago) link
'universal syncopations' by miroslav vituous is pretty great, and 'suspended night' by tomasz stanko is really great.
― omar little, Friday, 14 September 2007 06:05 (sixteen years ago) link
any more good shit of recent vintage to check out?
― omar little, Monday, 28 September 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqG0oZ2MFBs
― Squash weather (Eazy), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:07 (fourteen years ago) link
I'll rep for that whole album, as well as Lloyd's "Sangam".
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Gre5LBcYAA
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
all of dave holland's stuff.
nik bartsch's ronin is pretty decent (not much improvising, very rhythmic, minimal loops in odd-time signatures bumping up against each other, would be good for soundtracking a david mamet movie).
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't think Holland's on ECM these days though, at least not for "Overtime" (his best from recent years IMO) onward.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, you're right
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Monday, 28 September 2009 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I've really liked Eberhard Weber's stuff, it is an odd mix of jazz and that minimalist symphonic music like Steve Reich or Phillip Glass. The records sound pretty contemporary sounding considering they are 20-30 years old, in fact some of the more Reich styled pieces would not sound out of place on a Tortoise record. Bill Frisell and Jan Garbarek guest on Little Movements. Pendulum is a Weber overdubbed bass orchestra record. It is a pretty unique sounding record. Overall, it may not be hot and swinging jazz, but I think Weber made some interesting records. The guy pretty much just works as a sideman for the last ten or twelve years or so with Jan Garbarek and hasn't put out but a couple of albums.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, May 18, 2006 2:46 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark
^^^These records are really beautiful. I just put on Yellow Fields.
― ojo, Tuesday, 29 September 2009 03:44 (fourteen years ago) link
New Valentin Silvestrov album "Sacred Works" on the ECM New Series is tearfully, wonderfully awesome! Kiev Chamber Choir conducted by Mykola Hobdych doing liturgical chants, spirituals, psalms... Picked it up on a whim today from our sadly struggling local classical music specialist and am so pleased I did. Oh wow.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I have Silvestrov's "Requiem For Larissa" already, but will definitely be going back to order the rest of his ECM stuff now.
Also picked up a copy of the new ECM catalogue, which makes for very nice idle browsing.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, hadn't heard Silvestrov before. Gorgeous. Thank you
― Bangelo, Thursday, 12 November 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm curious about this album:
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20090922/390097169535.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
cuz i love the cover basically. but also cuz i see it described as jazz/krautrock.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
scott, u can download from here if you're interestedhttp://mutant-sounds.blogspot.com/2008/08/wolfgang-dauner-output-lp-1970-germany.html
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
this julian priester album "love love" is so so so fucking amazing. side long heavy heavy funky spacey jazz. kinda like mwandishi
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h109/pbksound/2b3f57b3.jpg
I only have an MP3 of the title track but it is awesome...one of the best ECMs.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Where should I look, within the the ECM catalogue, for other cool laptop fusion as in this year's Jon Hassell album?
― Deliquescing (Derelict), Thursday, 12 November 2009 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
the second side of that preister isn't as good. i mean, it's cool, but a lot looser and not as funky.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm curious about this album: cuz i love the cover basically. but also cuz i see it described as jazz/krautrock.
It's excellent
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
cool. i will listen. i just got a TON of ecm stuff i've never heard, so i'll report back.
don't have a copy anymore, but i remember digging this record. i'm not a braxton expert either, so don't know where it rates for his fans.
http://jazz.com/assets/2008/2/6/albumcoverCircle-ParisConcert-AnthonyBraxton-ChickCorea-DaveHolland.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
One more recommendation for Valentin Silvestrov. Specially for Leggiero, Pessante. The Postludium pieces are gorgeous.
― Moka, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
2nd the upthread recommendation for marion brown "afternoon of a georgia faun." it's great. mellow, twinkly improv.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks Moka. I'm going to gradually pick up the whole lot, but it's good to know where to lean my ears.
― krakow, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
halfway through that Dauner. i wouldn't call it jazz or kraut. it's weird improv. electronics, tuned drums. maybe a trumpet?
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
ok, just got to a more 'traditional' jazz song w/weird keyboard soloing through some ring modulator.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Jan Garbarek's first album for the label "Afric Pepperbird" is pretty damn good too.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
scott that circle album is awesome and, from what i know, highly regarded among braxton fans
― mark cl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
my favorite ECM joint tho, w/o doubt, is dave holland's conference of the birds:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/DaveHollandConferenceCover.jpg
― mark cl, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
braxton's on it too. one of my favorite jazz albums prob
No doubt, Conference of the Birds is a truly great record from start to finish.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
hey, i like it a bunch too. let's start a club! i hope i still have a copy of that cuz now i want to play it.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
the second half of that dauner record is def more jazzy and totally sounds like alice coltrane or sun ra when they're doing the wammy thing on their organ a LOT.
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
conference of the birds is dope imo.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
and i've never listened to the Circle LP despite seeing it around all the time. my fave braxton is "Creative Orchestra Music".
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always wanted to hear that Marion Brown album.
On the ECM new music tip, seek out all the discs they've published of Kurtag's music. Especially Kafka Fragments and the disc of string quartet music played by the Keller Quartet.
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if you listen to rekkerds jon, but i see the marion brown LP around a lot and it's cheap if it's the US pressing--and still affordable as a german pressing.
― ian, Thursday, 12 November 2009 21:59 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-KGDKBS_s
― Mr. Big STFU (ojo), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Pretty much all my listening is at my desk at work on headphones, so i pretty much only listen to vinyl if it's been digitized. I can probably google up a link for that LP if I put my mind to it.
Someday, if I'm ever a fancy-schmancy work-at-home writer type again, I'll get back in the vinyl game...
― Durian Durian (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
listening now to:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41VJ4RJEGAL._SL500_AA240_.jpg
dreamy proto-new age stuff. pretty. would pair well with a mellow sativa high. possibly a korean skunk or afghani blend.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
on another point, i gotta say this label's cover art is better than ever imo.
― jØrdån (omar little), Friday, 13 November 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
finally heard a d/load of that dave holland/derek bailey duo that i mentioned in my January 2004 post (christ) - it's absolutely stunning, holland kinda mirrors bailey's sounds and moves so that at times it's nearly impossible to distinguish the instruments - def. one of the albs most deserving of a cd reish
and of course pl add my name to list of the conference of the birds lovers, love sam rivers as much as brax
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
now playing:
http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/r/ralph_towner-batik(2).jpg
great nervous energy on this. would pair well with a heady indica strain. perhaps a hong kong kush.
― scott seward, Friday, 13 November 2009 16:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Great underrated trio record:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/1827271427_95bc12655f.jpg?v=0
― Bay-L.A. Bar Talk (Hurting 2), Friday, 13 November 2009 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a new book out about ECM cover art...
Windfall Light
― krakow, Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Saw this thread the other day and it made me think, "I should check out my local shop's used ECM vinyl section." There are a lot of records in it. So I picked up this, one side of which I really like.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31msL5gaPuL._SS500_.jpg
― Mark, Saturday, 14 November 2009 04:20 (fourteen years ago) link
this record is crazy. don preston on synthesizers and drum machines and michael mantler on trumpet. half of the time the drum machine sounds broken with really dark washes of synth. sometimes the synth is doing more standard arpegios and stuff. it almost sounds like a mix of a goblin soundtrack and supersilent.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/503798088_67a56b88dc.jpg
― jaxon, Saturday, 14 November 2009 06:03 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of Gary Burton , saw some Gary Burton thing on Vanguard at the rekkid store tonight ... A recording of a Carla Bley libretto? with like Gary Peacock and Coryell ... and also I think Steve Lacy? wait, why didn;t I buy this again?? oh well, sure it will be there tomorrow should I choose to go back
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 14 November 2009 06:13 (fourteen years ago) link