Friedrich Hölderlin: Turmgedichte
Vienna-based artist Christian Reiner reads from the so-called Turmgedichte, or “Tower Poems,” of Friedrich Hölderlin. The German poet has, of course, long been lodged in ECM’s consciousness (see, for example, Scardanelli), though nowhere nearly as long as he was ...
Composer: Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843)
Genre: Spoken Word
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Minco Eggersman tells us more and more, using fewer words in doing so. After three years during which Minco Eggersman mainly devoted his energies to creating soundtracks for films (Jaap van Heusden’s In Blue for the better part of 2016) and documentaries ...
Composer: Minco Eggersman
Genre: World Music
Subgenre: Worldbeat
Pianist Giovanni Guidi, is one of the most outstanding musicians to have emerged from the ranks of Italian jazz in the last decade and has already made his presence felt on Enrico Rava’s “Tribe” and “On The Dancefloor” albums.
Composer: Giovanni Guidi
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
“Avenging Angel” is Craig Taborn’s distinguished contribution to the great solo piano tradition at ECM, a powerful, purposeful and rigorous album, which rises to the challenges of the format and transcends them.
Composer: Craig Taborn Trio
Genre: Instrumental
Subgenre: Piano
György Kurtág: Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir
Recorded in Amsterdam's Musikgebouw and Haarlem's Philharmonie between March 2013 and July 2016, this triple-album set is a milestone in the documentation of Hungarian composer György Kurtág's work and also a labour of love. It brings together all of Kurtàg's works ...
Composer: György Kurtag (1926)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
The reconfigured Bobo Stenson Trio in a performance of characteristically wide arc. Material this time includes original compositions, group improvising and pieces by Peter Eben, Alban Berg, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and – for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double album recorded at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Mansurian: Songs and Instrumental Music
Tigran Mansurian has gained an enthusiastic following in the West thanks to recordings which have placed him in the context of other mystical composers working in the former republics of the Soviet Union such as Giya Kancheli from Georgia, and Franghiz Ali-Zadeh from Azerbaijan. ...
Composer: Tigran Mansurian (1939)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Als Blank & Jones diesen Begriff 2008 mit der ersten Sammlung prägten, war die Entwicklung und sanfte Wucht, die diese Musik mit sich bringen würde, bei weitem nicht abzusehen. Chilltronica ist eine Musik, die man sonst nirgends hören kann. Sie liegt teilweise nahe am Rande zur Stille ...
Genre: Electronic
Subgenre: Downtempo
Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a programme of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest calibre. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
For his third ECM release as a leader, Chris Potter presents a new acoustic quartet that naturally blends melodic rhapsody with rhythmic muscle. The group includes superlative musicians well known to followers of ECM’s many recordings ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger leads a trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron in this warm and involving recording, produced by Manfred Eicher in Oslo, and intensely melodic improvisation draws the listener gently ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
On his second ECM album – following the solo release Arborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic... like a vision quest” – pianist Aaron Parks leads a trio featuring Ben Street and Billy Hart. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Miller’s ECM debut has an international feel: the Latin influence of his heritage strong in such pieces as “Baden”, an early 20th-century Parisian air on “Le Pont” and the evocation of Celtic tunes on “Valium”. Miller has long been known as ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Modern Jazz
Recorded in 1977 in Oslo, Places was an important album for Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, and - with its stellar line-up including Americans Jack DeJohnette and Bill Connors - one that also drew significant attention in the US. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Contemporary Jazz
Circle was a band on fire with creativity. Chick Corea and Dave Holland had just left Miles Davis’s band, keen to explore all parameters of new music in an improvised context. Anthony Braxton, equally inspired by Stockhausen and Coltrane, ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
Conference of the Birds (Remastered)
It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle’s great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland’s first album as a full-fledged leader. ...
Genre: Jazz
Subgenre: Avantgarde Jazz
