ECM s/d.

Where should I look, within the the ECM catalogue, for other cool laptop fusion as in this year's Jon Hassell album?

the second side of that preister isn't as good. i mean, it's cool, but a lot looser and not as funky.

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

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

One more recommendation for Valentin Silvestrov. Specially for Leggiero, Pessante. The Postludium pieces are gorgeous.

2nd the upthread recommendation for marion brown "afternoon of a georgia faun." it's great. mellow, twinkly improv.

Thanks Moka. I'm going to gradually pick up the whole lot, but it's good to know where to lean my ears.

halfway through that Dauner. i wouldn't call it jazz or kraut. it's weird improv. electronics, tuned drums. maybe a trumpet?

ok, just got to a more 'traditional' jazz song w/weird keyboard soloing through some ring modulator.

Jan Garbarek's first album for the label "Afric Pepperbird" is pretty damn good too.

scott that circle album is awesome and, from what i know, highly regarded among braxton fans

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

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.

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.

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.

conference of the birds is dope imo.

and i've never listened to the Circle LP despite seeing it around all the time. my fave braxton is "Creative Orchestra Music".

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG-KGDKBS_s

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...

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.

on another point, i gotta say this label's cover art is better than ever imo.

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

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.

Great underrated trio record:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2233/1827271427_95bc12655f.jpg?v=0

There's a new book out about ECM cover art...

Windfall Light

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

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

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

was it this? if so, it's really good.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf600/f649/f64995u4ow2.jpg

that's "a genuine tong funeral"

yup, that's the one.

VG+ copy, 8.99

suppose I should grab it

never seen it before, also Reckless does grade really conservatively, I'll head back and take a look ... as i don't see any cat scratch stuff i will probably just grab it

i'm gonna have to light up an old fusion thread soon. bought a ton of records and got lots of 70's fusion stuff i've never heard.

got in a copy of the enrico rava quartet album with roswell rudd from 1978 and was gonna price it and put it out in the store, but i really like it! so i think i'll just keep it. very cool mix of trad and less trad sounds. already played it three times today.

i've been obsessing over certain strains of ECM over the past couple weeks. just went digging through a roommate's bag full of old jazz CDs, among which were the following ECM cd's. needless to say I'm very excited.

John Abercrombie - Cat'n'Mouse
John Abercrombie - The Third Quartet
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner - Sargasso Sea
Dave Holland Trio - Triplicate
Dave Holland Quartet - Dream of the Elders
Dave Holland Quintet - Not For Nothin
Dave Holland Big Band - What Goes Around
Charles Lloyd - Voice in the Night
Charles Llod / Billy Higgins - Which Way is East
Paul Motian / Bill Frisell / Joe Lavano - I Have the Room Above Her

having come back full circle to what i was into when i was 14, Bright Size Life being my favorite piece of music for a good year when i first started getting into jazz, I never knew anything about hte label it was on. i'm feeling pretty fucking great in early 2011 walking around in the freezing cold with ECM records like that and others in my earbuds

the liner notes to the Higgins / Lloyd double disc are so wild. it's a transcription of a conversation between the two, the CD was released a few months before Higgins died, and it's eerily poignant and bittersweet. two old friends talking about all the shit they've done and Higgins saying, "here we are, on another plane now".

i love those frisell/motian/lovano records. don't know much holland or abercrombie stuff, but they're both dudes i plan on getting around to.

Yeah man, so far the Motian one is my favorite. I'm trying to get It Should Have Happened A Long Time Ago by the same trio next.

my fave by them is "sound of love" (which might just be under motian's name, but is a trio rec with frisell and lovano).

im feelin BITTER FUNERAL BEER so hard right now, definitely one of my ECM faves

I just scored a bunch of dollar ECM records... some Keith Jarrett solo joints mostly. Also a Collin Walcott solo record, had no idea the dude was in (the band) Oregon!

just read about the Ricardo Villalobos/Max Loderbauer ECM remix record:

http://www.theliminal.co.uk/2011/06/ricardo-villalobos-max-loderbauer-re-ecm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tl93Cd80KY&feature=related

Not sure what I think of this record; need to make more of an effort to give it the attention it (probably) deserves. Some of it is definitely great, but after a few listens while working I haven't absorbed much from it. Hopefully this is a good sign.

this is great early 70s stuff - quiet fire guitar shredding and mr motian's sensitive fury on drums

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tYvq7dkbL._SS500_.jpg

ECM released and releases great music. For me, John Abercrombie is a recent discovery on ECM. I just love Metheny's 'Bright Size Life' but now Abercrombie is my new favorite ECM-guitarist. As for recent output, I'd recommend 'Class Trip', that title track gives me shivers (that first violin note...). His playing on John Surman's 'Brewster's Rooster' is also very good. Older output as 'Sargasso Sea' with Ralph Towner and an old recording with Enrico Rava too.

'Vignettes' by Marilyn Crispell and 'The viola in my life' by Morton Feldman on ECM are worth getting too. Sound and perfomance are stellar.