Urban Bushmen is there, too.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 10 November 2017 17:30 (six years ago) link
And Full Force!
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 10 November 2017 17:32 (six years ago) link
Not in the US, at least not yet.
― grawlix (unperson), Friday, 10 November 2017 17:33 (six years ago) link
Well whaddya know, loads of ECM stuff on Apple Music in the UK now too. Hooray!
― bamboohouses, Friday, 10 November 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
I said preferably NOT streaming damnit, Manfred.
― Noel Emits, Friday, 10 November 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
I wish someone would do an exploratory ECM back catalog blog like the Kranky one a from few years back.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 12 November 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
US Spotify now has Nice Guys, Urban Bushmen, and The Third Decade up, as well as Lester Bowie's All The Magic!/The One and Only and Works, and Roscoe Mitchell's Nine to Get Ready, Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 & 3, Far Side and Bells For the South Side.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 12 November 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
God dammit, Eberhard Weber's early records are so beautiful, I've had a couple kicking around for years but never afforded them the proper attention, what a fool.
The Colours Of Chloë might just be the most ECM-y record of all.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:37 (six years ago) link
good call, I was just thinking of something to stream right now.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:45 (six years ago) link
I wonder if Joni was paying attention, some of Don Juan's Reckless Daughter is very reminiscent of Weber's music.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 23:49 (six years ago) link
I started this rather unsuccessful topic some while back.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Nik Bärtsch's RONIN have a new album out.
― calzino, Monday, 2 April 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
What is his best album?
― calstars, Monday, 2 April 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
I'm undecided on that but I loved his last one Continuum, and I think both Stoa and Holon are A+. I haven't listened to his band for a while tbh. Luckily ECM are streaming now so it's easy to access his music. Although he looks disturbingly like a shaved barl-head Tony Blair - I don't judge ppl on looks!
― calzino, Monday, 2 April 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
He also looks disconcertingly like the singer form Disturbed
Continuum is amazing and I'll probably buy this new one
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 2 April 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
^^^ This album is Awase Amaze.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 July 2018 08:58 (five years ago) link
yep!
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:53 (five years ago) link
this band/composer are so consistently good, they've never put out anything less than A+ imo.
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
Listened to Albanian jazz vocalise Elina Duni last weekend, really good. First vocalist on ECM or am I missing any?
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 13 July 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
Anettete Peacock, Meredith Monk just off the top of my head
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 13 July 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
lol Annette
June Tabor released at least one album on ECM!
― omar little, Friday, 13 July 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
oh, there are literally loads of vocal albums.
― calzino, Friday, 13 July 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
Thanks - I've missed these!
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 13 July 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
SEARCH - Eberhard Weber Later That Evening 1982
― kurt schwitterz, Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
SEARCH — Eberhard Weber all
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Thursday, 26 July 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
searching that rn sounds great!
― niels, Friday, 27 July 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
As mentioned by others, Elina Duni is not the first vocalist on ECM by a long shot, though she is certainly a fine one. But one ECM vocalist I feel has been overlooked, and could have been a breakout star like Duni, is Cymin Samawatie. She and her band Cyminology have recorded three fine albums on ECM, but they do not seem to have gotten much attention beyond Germany.
― Melomane, Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
really feeling new Tord Gustavsen album tonight, sort of textbook downbeat, bluesy ECM piano trio classicism, but quite powerful and moving stuff.
― calzino, Monday, 20 August 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
thanks for the recommendation, sounds very good indeed
― niels, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link
Happy he's returned to the trio format. Did not enjoy What Was Said at all.
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Been listening to Rainer Bruninghaus' 'Continuum' from 1984 while working this week, it's a nimble and kinda spindly, looking out the window with nothing to do on a rainy day, sounding record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ooEv70T0oY
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
Eicher put together this tribute to Tomasz Stanko:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJ4KJz97xo
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
Wonderful album, thanks for the recommendation. Unobtrusive, subtle music to daydream and look out of the window to. I think it would also be great to write existential love letters to.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
I meant the Brüninghaus album...
Listening to the Brüninghaus album right now. It's absolutely gorgeous.
I've only dipped a couple of toes into EM, but this is my favourite era - whether the tonal palette started to get fleshed out a little with synths and digital reverb units.
Has this ever been discussed? Total banger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX6-pNcJqko
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:48 (five years ago) link
* dipped a couple of toes into ECM, obviously.
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 11:49 (five years ago) link
That's great, Isham only made one record for ECM?
I feel a bit of an early/mid-eighties rabbit hole coming on, see if I can find some more records with that integrated synth feel.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:00 (five years ago) link
He played on a few other records, but this is his only album as a leader.https://www.ecmrecords.com/artists/1435045855/mark-isham
Would love some recommendations of other synthy titles.
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
I will report back on my findings, I'm kinda intrigued by 'Ecotopia' by Orgeon based on the Allmusic review quoted in it's Wikipedia entry.
"there is no excuse for this waste of studio time and Manfred Eicher's energy. It is no wonder that he began the ECM New Series a few years before, given the junk churned out by some of label's stable between 1983 and 1988, and this record is a stellar example. Simply put, this is a trite, new age piece of dreck slopped out by a group of musicians whose combined creativity should always take them to stellar heights. There are no redeeming tracks on this disc, and few redeeming moments "
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 13:59 (five years ago) link
That sounds exactly like my kind of thing.
Looks like Ralph Towner's on that one - his Blue Sun has loads of synth all over it.
It's interesting to hear synths used in this context, rather than 'pure' electronic music which tends to put a premium on sound design over playing chops. It's sometimes quite jarring to hear a DX7 on one of these records, played virtuosically but using some hoary old presets.
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:03 (five years ago) link
This might be a good jumping off point.
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/vf-mix-ecm-by-arp/
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
Brilliant - yes, that looks like a great place to start!
― bamboohouses, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:23 (five years ago) link
Surman & DeJohnette's Adventures of Simon Simon would fit
― doug watson, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
Another Brüninghaus from an earlier record released in '80, this has an almost John Carpenter-y looping synth/electric piano line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg2214arX04
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
Ecotopia is pretty bland for Oregon, not sure if there is nothing to keep but they have done much better.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
yeah i really like Surman's use of synth vs sax overdubs, really unique - withholding pattern and upon reflection are my favourites in this vein
big fan of that isham album too
i had somehow missed that Tomasz Stanko died - seeing him play with his Polish quartet is a top 10 show for me
― umsworth (emsworth), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:02 (five years ago) link
That Brüninghaus album is so great, thanks for the rec.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 23 August 2018 11:40 (five years ago) link
The new album "Helsinki Songs" by Norwegian sax player Trygve Seim and his quartet is grand cru. Kristjan Randalu's subtle piano play is wonderful.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
oh hell yeah
so much good scandi jazz
― niels, Thursday, 6 September 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
i was going to say - i never really associated ecm with third stream! that might be down to my lack of familiarity with ecm and third stream in general, though
still, i always thought third stream was stuff like george russell?
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 January 2023 20:03 (one year ago) link
i think of ECM as like, "chill fusion" or maybe something like quiet storm, but with new age influences instead of disco-era r&b influences
A rare treat today. My local record store had a pile of freebies from which I was able to pilfer seven(!) ECM/Japo titles. Most of them are from the early '80s, so a bit off my radar. Really looking forward to listening with a clean slate.
The ones I picked up are:Dino Saluzzi - Kultrum (1982)Egberto Gismonti - Solo (1979)Jan Garbarek Group - Wayfarer (1983)Herbert Joos - The Philosophy of the Fluegelhorn (1974)David Holland - Life Cycle (1983)Eberhard Weber - Later that Evening (1982)Katrina Krimsky and Trevor Watts - Stella Malu (1981)
― cooldix, Sunday, 22 January 2023 08:44 (one year ago) link
Amazing haul! I like Stella Malu a lot. Have seen that Dave Holland in the wild a few times but it has always been priced a little too high for a speculative buy - free is the perfect price!
― meat and two vdgg (emsworth), Sunday, 22 January 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
Svante Henryson has to be the only ECM recording artist that was a former member of Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force.
This is one of the more odd musical connections I recently found out about.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 12 April 2023 19:23 (eleven months ago) link
One of the great pleasures of record shopping these days is regularly finding forgotten ECM gems for super cheap. A few days ago I picked up a nice vinyl copy of Ralph Towner's second Solstice album, Sound and Shadows for $2. It's darker and more subdued than the first one but just as good to my ears. Lovely flute work from Garbarek on the last track, and Weber's bass is sublimely liquid as usual.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:27 (nine months ago) link
i just picked up Garbarek's Dis the other day for $4, well worth iit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 19:27 (nine months ago) link
surprised i hadn't heard it before (since I'm a big codona fan), but I picked up Collin Walcott's Grazing Dreams recently — extremely sweet stuff w/ don cherry, abercrombie, palle danielsson, etc.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 20:09 (nine months ago) link
Really enjoying Kenny Wheeler’s "Around 6" from 1980. The opening track is somewhat stereotypical ECM (i.e. very melodic), and that goes on for several minutes. But then comes an Evan Parker freakout that veers into free jazz. I’m sure this horrified some listeners, but I love it.
― Melomane, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 23:14 (nine months ago) link
Came across this stunning record, Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano's tribute to Paul Motian. Two drummers (Joey Baron and Jorge Rossy) and THREE bassists, but it still manages to be delicate and spacious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8lvPNG-vsQ
https://ecmrecords.com/product/once-around-the-room-a-tribute-to-paul-motian-jakob-bro-joe-lovano/#tab_description
― 50 Favorite Jordans (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 August 2023 14:23 (six months ago) link
Been going through some of my ECM LPs and Rainer Bruninghaus’ Freigeweht feels like a peak of some sort of ECM feeling that I love - beautiful recording, lots of tastefully deployed synths, smooth playing and a production sheen over everything but also real sort of uneasy… like I feel it is reductive to describe this stuff through the prism of Soundtrack-ness, but it could be the soundtrack to some inscrutable UK sci fi film from 1983… like if they had filmed A Dream of Wessex maybe
Anyway it is so good
― Kraal Disorientation Chamber (emsworth), Saturday, 23 March 2024 00:16 (five days ago) link