Muzica CD

CD ECM Records Jon Hassell: Power Spot

1984

Jon Hassell - trompeta
J. A. Deane - percutie electronica, flaut
Jean-Philippe Rykiel - claviaturi
Michael Brook - chitara electrica
Richard Horowitz - claviaturi
Brian Eno - bas
Richard Armin, Paul Armin - claviaturi, sintetizatoare
Miguel Frasconi - flaut

American trumpeter Jon Hassell’s “Fourth World” music drew on Minimalism, Asian and African traditions, and electronics to create new, and very influential, dreamscapes.

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• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Bill Frisell Band: Lookout For Hope

Martie 1987
Bill Frisell - chitara electrica si acustica, banjo
Hank Roberts - violoncel, voce
Kermit Driscoll - bas
Joey Baron - tobe

"On this, another seminal effort on ECM’s Touchstones, Frisell continued to chart his inimitable sound. The wordless vocals of Hank Roberts in the album’s title opener waver like something from the dream diary of Pat Metheny, with whom Frisell shares much insofar as it is almost impossible to listen to either guitarist without seeing epic films of vivid imagery.

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• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Dino Saluzzi: Kultrum

1982

Dino Saluzzi - bandoneon

Dino Saluzzi as a solo performer is one of the more remarkable musicians in contemporary music, in that he plays several instruments, including his beloved bandoneon with such precision, balance and subtle power. Kultrum is indeed a multi-cultural project that taps into the folkloric, ancestral, and traditional sounds of Native American Indians and his South American roots, enhanced by producer Manfred Eicher's Eurocentric notions.

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• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: World

CD ECM Records Chick Corea: Children's Songs

1983

Chick Corea - pian
Ida Kavafian - vioara
Fred Sherry - violoncel

AllMusic:
"Chick Corea began writing his Children's Songs in 1971 and recorded the complete set of 20 in 1984. There's nothing inherent in the piano miniatures to indicate that they are especially for children. They aren't written for children to perform, because while they are musically straightforward, they are technically and interpretively far from easy. Most of them last between one and two minutes.

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• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Shankar: Song For Everyone

1984

Shankar - vioara dubla cu 10 corzi, drum machine
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
Zakir Hussain - tabla, conga
Trilok Gurtu - tobe si percutie

Shankar and Jan Garbarek’s previous collaboration, Vision, opened many people’s ears to the more fruitful possibilities of idiomatic blends. And while that initial project yielded a fascinating album in its own right, I always felt it lacked something I couldn’t quite articulate.

With Song For Everyone, that lack becomes clear once Trilok Gurtu and Zakir Hussain level the playing field with their earthy rhythms. In their presence, electric violin and saxophone can soar even higher, knowing there will always be a ground to return to. As if to underscore this point, Shankar also employs a drum machine, as in the delightful “Paper Nut” that inaugurates us into the album’s universe.

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• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Terje Rypdal & The Chasers: Blue

1987

Terje Rypdal - chitara electrica, claviaturi
Bjorn Kjellemyr - bas electric, contrabas
Audun Kleive - tobe, percutie

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“His sound is one of the most original and immediately recognizable on the planet,” Guitar Player magazine has noted, identified by “a majestic, echoed, singing tone with precisely articulated vibrato and nearly endless sustain, and a string-like attack via volume-pedal swells.” There is plenty of Rypdal’s signature sound on Blue in the stripped-down context of the Chasers, a band capable of being both a post-Hendrix power trio and an improvising chamber group, exploring Terje’s evocative themes.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records John Abercrombie: Night

1984

John Abercrombie - chitara
Jan Hammer - claviaturi
Jack DeJohnette - tobe
Mike Brecker - saxofon tenor


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Night reconvenes the guitar/keyboards/drums trio that made Abercrombie’s classic Timeless, and adds Mike Brecker on tenor sax for extra emphasis at strategic moments on an album described by the Penguin Guide to Jazz as “surprisingly funky”. All compositions are by Abercrombie apart from “Ethereggae”, the esoteric half-time shuffle tune by Jan Hammer, which opens the proceedings.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records David Torn: Cloud About Mercury

1986

David Torn - chitara acustica si electrics
Mark Isham - trompeta, flugelhorn, sintetizatoare
Tony Levin - Chapman stick, synth bass
Bill Bruford - tobe, sintetizatoare, percutie


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“Everything is in a state of transition,” David Torn explained. “Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change.” The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose sonorities are closely related to progressive rock (the rhythm section is half of one incarnation of King Crimson) and to the experimental end of ambient music. Drummer Bill Bruford’s affection for this album is undying: “To this day, Torn’s guitar on ‘Three Minutes of Pure Entertainment’ from Cloud About Mercury makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck.”

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD ECM Records Egberto Gismonti: Zig Zag

1996
Egberto Gismonti - chitara, pian
Nando Carneiro - chitara, sintetizator
Zeca Assumpcao - contrabas


'ZigZag' is the 14th Gismonti recording to be issued by ECM and features his touring band of Nando Carneiro, who doubles on guitar and synthesizer, and bassist Zeca Assumpacao.

The trio members have been friends since the 1970's and collaborated on many projects and tours both in South America and Europe. More than 20 years after his ECM debut, 'Dança das Cabeças', Gismonti remains a category unto himself. Born in the small Brazilian town of Carmo to a Lebanese father and a Sicilian mother, he grew up in an 'international' environment .

Beginning classical piano at the age of 5, his earliest yearnings were to play and compose music in the European tradition. At the age of 20 he went to Paris to study initially with composer Jean Barraqué and later with Nadia Boulanger. Whereas Barraqué passed on his enthusiasm for Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky to the young Egberto, Boulanger sent the aspiring composer home to reacquaint himself with his Brazilian roots.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: World

CD Naim Stuart McCallum: City

2015

“Liberally coated in chill-out and even folky atmospheres City is a record that also has a strong vocals input. But there’s also organic acoustic guitar currents flowing in like a hidden river under some concreted-over flyover” - Marlbank

"deserves to be widely heard and appreciated" - All About Jazz

"The stuff of trippy dreams" - London Evening Standard

“Some music is at its best after dark; after all, night is the time for introspection, and this, guitarist Stuart McCallum’s second album for Naim Jazz, is a case in point: we’re truly talking about 3.00am levels of introspection.” - London Jazz

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Electronica

CD Naim Get The Blessing: Astronautilus

2015

“Get The Blessing’s set moves back and forth between mellow to intense, but it’s never indulgent. What makes Get The Blessing such a formidable live act is that their music, no matter how obscure, never fails to entertain. The audience remain enthralled throughout, the accessibility of their music being the key.” - Drunken Werewolf

"Seriously creative but also wonderfully irreverent" - MOJO

"One of the best of the powerful post-millennial generation of British jazz bands" - The Independent

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Naim Antonio Forcione: Ghetto Paradise

1998

Following the success of his other albums on Naim Label, Antonio Forcione has teamed up with the world famous rhythm section of Trilok Gurtu on percussion, and Kai Eckhardt on bass to produce an album that will certainly elevate his international standing further still. Trilok and Kai have previously worked with a host of celebrated musicians including Neneh Cherry, Martin Taylor, Pat Metheny, and John McLaughlin.

All tracks on this recording were written and arranged by Antonio, providing a glowing testimonial to his abilities as a composer, and demonstrating that his considerable musical talent continues to develop.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Naim Antonio Forcione: Touch Wood

2003
Antonio Forcione - chitara :

Antonio has been hailed as "the Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar" and his live performances have established him as one of the most charismatic and talented musicians working in the UK today, a sentiment that would be echoed by his many fans the world over.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Naim Daudi Matsiko: An Introduction To Failure

2017

The confessional, folky sound of guitarist Daudi Matsiko is much in demand, after his collaborations with electronic acts Booka Shade and Kyodai, an appearance at Red Bull Music Academy, and tours with Keaton Henson, GoGo Penguin and Portico Quartet.

The mellow fingerpicking guitar of Daudi Matsiko really gets to you.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Naim Yazz Ahmed: La Saboteuse

2017

‘Jazz Album of the year’ - The Wire
'The Best Albums of 2017 (All Genres - #18)' - Bandcamp
’The Best Jazz Albums of 2017’ - Bandcamp
‘Editors Favourite Albums of 2017’ - Bandcamp (Marcus J Moore)
‘Top 50 albums of 2017 (all genres) #15 ’ - The Vinyl Factory

“Even if you’re not familiar or terribly interested in jazz, Ahmed’s music deserves your attention, and she’ll most likely make you second guess your thoughts on jazz.” - Headphone Nation

Bahraini-British performer, Yazz Ahmed, is transforming what jazz means in 2017. This trumpet and flugelhorn-playing artist has worked with Radiohead and These New Puritans, experiments with electronic effects, and combines sounds from her shared heritage to author a new narrative for the genre. Part of the new wave of artists credited with stirring up the sound, including Kamasi Washington, Yussef Kamaal, Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Yazz Ahmed is thrilled by the possibilities of making something new. “I feel like I’m a part of modernising jazz and connecting it with audiences today,” Yazz says. “It’s exciting.”

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Naim Havard Gimse, Henning Kraggerud: Schubert, Schumann

2006

Havard Gimse - pian
Henning Kraggerud - viola

Franz Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata D 821
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata In A Minor D 784
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op. 15

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Clasica

CD ECM Records Jan Garbarek: Witchi Tai To

1975

Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
Bobo Stenson - pian
Palle Danielsson - bas
Jon Christensen - tobe

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In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted ‘Record of the Year 1974/75’ in Jazz Forum’s poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: “Those who think that contemporary music from Europe lacks soul-fire are hereby advised to listen to Witchi-Tai-To.” Bobo Stenson: “The quartet had a chemistry that I’ve very rarely known, and I look back at the whole period as a happy and creative time.” The wide-open programme includes tunes by Carla Bley and Don Cherry as well as the title track composed by Jim Pepper.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz

CD Decca Puccini - Tosca ( Karajan - Price, Di Stefano ) CD + BluRay Audio

The first chords lift you right out of your seat. This is Tosca for the Imax screen, no holds barred. Karajan, and the resplendent Vienna Philharmonic, hurl those chords out of the loudspeakers, and from that moment his hold never falters. Has anyone ever lavished such care, sensuality and physical power on this score? And has any orchestra ever played it as wonderfully as the Vienna Philharmonic? Every detail of Puccini’s Technicolor orchestration is there to marvel at. And theatricality too. Listen to the way Karajan builds the Te Deum at the end of Act I, abetted by John Culshaw’s vivid production: you can smell the incense. Price is a refulgent Tosca, glorious of voice, Di Stefano a wonderfully open-voiced and surprisingly subtle Cavaradossi, and Taddei a compellingly evil Scarpia. For sheer white-hot drama, the mono Callas/De Sabata set remains a classic. But in its different way, and in still-spectacular sound, this is just as overwhelming. A ‘legend’ indeed. Adam Gatehouse

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.

Remastered in ultra-high quality 96kHz/24-bit audio at Abbey Road Studios in 2014 under the supervision of long-term Decca balance engineer Philip Siney.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Opera

CD Decca Strauss - Elektra ( Solti - Nilsson, Resnik ) CD + BluRay Audio

1967 - ( Birgit Nilsson, Gerhard Stolze, Regina Resnik, Marie Collier, Tom Krause, Wiener Philharmoniker, dirijeaza Georg Solti ) -

Salome and Elektra, of course, were two of the greatest vehicles for Birgit Nilsson, and her Elektra remains unsurpassed–never mind the mind-boggling playing of the Vienna Philharmonic.

– ClassicsToday

Presented on 2CDs + High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc containing the complete opera in 24-Bit audio.

• Numar discuri: 3
• Gen muzica: Opera

CD ACT Tonbruket - Masters Of Fog

• Numar discuri: 1
• Gen muzica: Jazz