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Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

Read "Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs" reviewed by John Kelman


For his 21st ECM recording (his first six originally released on the label's sister imprint Japo but subsequently reissued on ECM), multi-instrumentalist and intrepid musical explorer Stephan Micus simplifies...well, relatively speaking...to the sparer instrumental settings of earlier recordings like The Music of Stones (1989), East of the Night (1985) and Till the End of Time (1978). That's not to say that Micus--who's recorded all his music in his own MCM Studio since 1992's To the Evening Child--has deserted his usual ...

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Album Review

Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

Read "Nomad Songs" reviewed by Mark Sullivan


Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has lived in a sound world of his own for many years. World Music usually means borrowing from disparate musical cultures and combining them. But Micus creates World Music for a world of his own creation. He adopts traditional instruments from all over the planet, then combines them in original compositions without referencing their original styles. As he says, “It makes little sense for a German to interpret Asian or African traditional music in public. This is ...

Album Review

Stephan Micus: Panagia

Read "Panagia" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


> La nuova tappa del percorso etnomusicale intrapreso tanti anni fa dal polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus presenta un carattere molto più spirituale del solito, nonostante l'aspetto mistico-religioso sia da sempre una delle componenti imprescindibili della sua arte. Il suo più recente lavoro infatti è concepito come una preghiera alla Vergine Maria (la parola greca Panagia rappresenta appunto uno dei suoi nomi, secondo la tradizione ortodossa), ma non tanto nel senso cristiano, quanto universale, come espressione dell'energia femminile presente da sempre ...

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Stephan Micus: Panagia

Read "Panagia" reviewed by John Kelman


Almost like clockwork since 1983 (though he began his association with the label, on its subsidiary JAPO label, in 1977 with Implosions), multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has been delivering albums to ECM every one-to-three years. His modus operandi is largely the same: continue to scour the world for rarely exposed ethnic instruments and use them in contexts different than those for which, perhaps, they were originally intended and, over the course of decades, create a body of work as profound in ...

Album Review

Stephan Micus: Bold as Light

Read "Bold as Light" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus è sicuramente uno degli artisti più unici e originali di tutto il catalogo ECM, con la sua personalissima musica fatta prevalentemente da suggestioni etniche che accompagnano l'ascoltatore in un viaggio interiore attraverso culture di tutto il mondo filtrate e rielaborate in un'ottica decisamente panfolkloristica. Ogni nuovo lavoro di Micus aggiunge un'ulteriore tappa a questo cammino, nel rispetto di una poetica ormai da tempo consolidata e rivelata negli oltre venti titoli che compongono la sua discografia. ...

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Stephan Micus: Bold as Light

Read "Bold as Light" reviewed by John Kelman


At a time when, at least for First World residents, there seems no respite from the relentless, rapid pace of life, artists like Stephan Micus provide welcome clarity; proof that there are alternatives. Difficult though it may seem, when immersed in all the push-and-pull of day-to-day distractions, there is another way; it's just not necessarily an easy one. For nearly four decades, Micus has traveled the world, a student of culture and society...and the music that naturally evolves from the ...

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Stephan Micus: Snow

Read "Snow" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Snow è il diciottesimo lavoro di Stephan Micus, polistrumentista tedesco di grande sensibilità e indipendenza. Nonostante le mille influenze e la ricerca che passa attraverso strumenti musicali legati alla tradizione di luoghi lontani dalla sua natale Germania, il suo lavoro in tanti anni si è sempre contraddistinto per l’originalità. Artista lontano dal mondo del jazz che negli anni ha saputo costruire veri e propri viaggi immaginari mantenendosi sapientemente assai distante da mode e contaminazioni esotiche assai in voga negli anni. ...


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