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Plasma

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tritium; Isblink; Sessapinae; Cocoro; Altaelva

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Article: Album Review

Ikarus: Plasma

Read "Plasma" reviewed by Geno Thackara


While they have an ambition worthy of their mythological namesake, this Ikarus is in no danger of melting and crashing after flying too high. Their exuberance is a little less wild yet, in its own way, no less adventurous. This quintet melds the sum of its minimalist parts into something transcendent yet always understated. Without needing ...

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Song of the Day

Tritium

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Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:48

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News: Recording

Contemporary / Groove / Jazz Quintet Ikarus's Mosaismic Available On Ronin Rhythm Records

Contemporary / Groove / Jazz Quintet Ikarus's Mosaismic Available On Ronin Rhythm Records

A curious thing happens to a band as its sound matures. As the voices of its players continue to fuse ever more seamlessly, their individual styles also come into focus with increasing clarity. In its most literal reading, this is the key idea behind Mosaismic, the title of the third full-length record from Swiss contemporary / ...

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Article: Album Review

Ikarus: Mosaismic

Read "Mosaismic" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Like morse code lapping against the rampant stream of everything binary, the minimal groove of Germany's Ikarus—which is drummer Ramon Oliveras, pianist Lucca Fries double bassist Moritz Meyer and the wordless, gravity-free scat singing of Andreas Lareida and Anna Hirsch—makes for an edgy, compelling atmosphere. Economic to the point of sparseness, Ikarus, like its ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Voices Without Words

Read "Voices Without Words" reviewed by Geno Thackara


It's all too easy to forget the voice as an instrument in itself--arguably the most expressive one we have, especially if these examples are any indication. Here we have two offerings to remind us what mind-bending possibilities it can offer. Ikarus Mosaismic Ronin Rhythm Records 2019 A good ...

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Article: Year in Review

Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016

Read "Budd Kopman's Best Releases of 2016" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Of the seventy or so albums I was fortunate to review this year (with many still waiting in the wings), the releases below (in chronological order) are those that moved me the most and hence that I remember the clearest, even after a year. The quality of the music is uniformly high, and leaving something off ...

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Article: Album Review

Ikarus: Chronosome

Read "Chronosome" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Drummer Ramón Oliveras is the composer and leader of Ikarus and Chronosome is this band's second release, after the powerful and stunning Echo . There is no sophomore jinx here, as this recording starts off where the earlier one begins only to fly higher and delve deeper while still creating immense physical soundspaces. The ...

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Article: Album Review

Ikarus: Echo

Read "Echo" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Music has the extraordinary power to alter time and space for its duration, as well as being used to arouse emotions. The terms “abstract" and “concrete" are often used to describe particular music in a way that is widely understood, and yet the actual definitions remain elusive. Echo, from the band Ikarus, contains music ...


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