Muzica ECM

Luminessence, ECM’s new audiophile vinyl-reissue - cut from the original analog master tapes

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

2017

Danish String Quartet
Rune Tonsgaard Sorensen - vioara, Harmonium, pian, Glockenspiel
Frederik Oland - vioara
Asbjorn Norgaard - viola
Fredrik Schoyen Sjolin - violoncel, contrabas

They are widely recognised as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the world of Nordic folk music.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Contemporana
• Tip Album: VINIL

1981

Ralph Towner - chitara clasica, double-six
John Abercrombie - chitara acustica, , electrica, mandolina electrica

John Abercrombie is unique among guitarists in that whenever he becomes enraptured his sound becomes neither louder nor more pronounced but becomes somehow mysterious, liberated. Ralph Towner, on the other hand, revels in the crackling ruptures that so characterize his playing. Yet these roles seem reversed in this follow-up to the duo’s Sargasso Sea. A far more fragile carnation than its predecessor, it seems to forego the usual bag of tricks in favor of something more, as the album’s title would imply, reflective. This is especially apparent in the three improvisations with which the set list is dotted, and nowhere more so than in “Late Night Passenger,” where Abercrombie’s laddered filaments provide stunning berth for the other’s muted, jangling starlight. [ ecmreviews ]

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

1989
Shankar - vioara dubla
Zakir Hussain - tabla
Vikku Vinayakram - ghatam
Jon Christensen - tobe

Multi-instrumentalist L. Shankar’s fascinating evolution as a musician and composer took yet another intimate turn with M.R.C.S. Dedicated to Shankar’s father, V. Lakshminarayana, it also boasts master percussionists Zakir Hussain (tabla), Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam), and drummer Jon Christensen. The depths of the album’s experiences are forever aquatic, as in the opening “Adagio,” which floats Shankar’s double violin insights on a dark and winding current. Filmic and vivid, its gauche stretches a fine canvas for the pigments that follow.

“All I Care” marries the rhythmic edge of “March” (an interlude from Christensen) with Shankar’s cosmic pizzicato and gossamer comet trails, the latter reaching glorious improvisational heights that can only end in fadeout, lest their perpetuity be harmed. The music travels away from us, ever tuneful, into the tabla-infused “Reasons.” Here, Hussain trail-marks a scurrying snare, backing more winged artistry from the leader.

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• Gen muzica: World
• Tip Album: VINIL

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• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

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• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

• Numar discuri: 2
• Greutate Vinil: Normal

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

LP 180g

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• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

LP 180g

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

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• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

2018

Wolfgang Muthspiel - chitara
Ambrose Akinmusire - trompeta
Brad Mehldau - pian
Larry Grenadier - contrabas
Eric Harland - tobe

Where The River Goes carries the story forward from Rising Grace, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel’s widely acclaimed 2016 recording, returning his cast of musicians to the same studio in southern France, for more of the intuitive magic and deep listening that characterised the earlier album. “The disc’s ambience,” said Downbeat of Rising Grace, “is meditative yet optimistic and joyful. Percolating grooves propel the flow; elemental melodies and classical harmonies provide signposts.”

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

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• Greutate Vinil: Normal

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

2016
Carla Bley - pian
Andy Sheppard - saxofoane
Steve Swallow - bas

Andando el Tiempo features new music of wide emotional compass by Carla Bley, and underlines her originality and resourcefulness as a jazz composer. “Saints Alive!” sets up animated conversations between the participants with striking statements from Steve Swallow’s bass guitar and Andy Sheppard’s soprano sax.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

1972

Chick Corea - pian
Anthony Braxton - instrumente de suflat cu ancie, percutie
Barry Altschul - percutie
David Holland - contrabas, violoncel

Supergrup Free-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, brought in new directions from the AACM. Barry Altschul’s resumé included extensive work with Paul Bley. Together they were, for a while, matchless. Corea called the Paris Concert (recorded 1971) the realization of a dream. Melody Maker: “Paris Concert is evidence that here was one of the most excitingly talented bands of recent years, for these 94 minutes of music simply burst with vigorous invention.”

• Numar discuri: 2
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

1977
Keith Jarrett - pian, saxofon, percutie
Dewey Redman - saxofon tenor, percutie
Charlie Haden - contrabas
Paul Motian - tobe, percutie

The Survivors’ Suite, recorded in 1976, is the crowning achievement of Keith Jarrett’s “American Quartet” with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian, and one of the all-time enduring masterpieces in the ECM catalogue. Melody Maker: “The Survivors’ Suite is a brilliantly organized and full-blooded work which provides the perfect setting for all four talents.

Initially published in January 1977, vinyl is reissued in April 2017 as audiophile pressing taken from the original analog tapes.

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

1993
Jan Garbarek - saxofon tenor si sopran
The Hilliard Ensemble:
David James - contratenor
Rogers Covey-Crump - tenor
John Potter - tenor
Gordon Jones - bariton

Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano sax soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly.

Those with nervous metabolisms may become impatient with this undefinable music, but if you give it a chance, it will seduce you, too. [ AllMusic ]

"Officium is what Coltrane hears in heaven."

• Numar discuri: 2
• Greutate Vinil: 180g

• Gen muzica: Contemporana
• Tip Album: VINIL

• Numar discuri: 1
• Greutate Vinil: Normal

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL

• Numar discuri: 2
• Greutate Vinil: Normal

• Gen muzica: Jazz
• Tip Album: VINIL