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Sha: Monbijou

Read "Monbijou" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


Aside from an existing appreciation of the saxophonist's creativity, it would be a mistake to approach Sha's Monbijou with any preconceptions. While this is a notion that has applied to his main group, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the tack Sha takes on this album is well removed from even that. Considering the integrated groupthink which characterizes nearly all of his work in (and outside of) Ronin, part of that remove is to be expected-- after all, this is a ...

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Sha's Feckel: Greatest Hits

Read "Greatest Hits" reviewed by John Kelman


With Stoa (ECM, 2006), the world at large was introduced to Nik Bärtsch and his hypnotic, booty-shaking Zen Funk. But the Swiss pianist's rapid ascendance, thanks to the international reach and reputation of ECM Records, was only the tip of the iceberg. Not only had Bärtsch released six previous albums since 2001, on his own Ronin Rhythms Records--four with his now-longstanding Ronin, plus a solo piano record and the album that started it all, Ritual Groove Music (2001), with his ...

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Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyrìa

Read "Llyrìa" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Prosegue l'opera del pianista svizzero Nik Bärtsch attraverso i suoi “perfetti" moduli compositivi, dopo i precedenti Holon (2008) e Stoa, sempre per la ECM. Forte di un suono orchestrale denso e preciso, i Ronin di Nik Bärtsch sono una band che suona uno spartito accuratamente preparato. La pre-scrittura dei moduli non lascia nulla al caso, lo studio del loop come modello quasi lecorbusiano su cui si appoggiano variazioni, dai toni incerti e talvolta melodrammatici. Tutti i moduli sono sorretti dalle ...

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Sha's Banryu: Chessboxing Volume One

Read "Chessboxing Volume One" reviewed by John Kelman


With a group possessing as strong and unique an identity as Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch's Ronin--heard most recently on the remarkable Holon (ECM, 2008) and in performance in Kristiansand, Norway at Punkt 08--It's not surprising that the debut album by its reedman Sha possesses many of the same characteristics. Ronin, after all, is more than just a group; it's a musical philosophy combining minimalist tendencies with deep grooves and improvisation so subtle that it's at a near subconscious level. Chessboxing ...

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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Holon

Read "Holon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


“I always leave the concert hall when i start tapping my foot”. Partendo da questa frase di Morton Feldman, monito semiserio (e frase iniziale delle brevi note di copertina) sull’opposizione tra il momento dell’ascolto concentrato e quello della danza e della liberazione, il pianista svizzero Bärtsch cerca di superarne l’intima contraddizione. La chiave di volta dice di averla trovata nelle arti marziali e nella profonda unione tra impegno di cuore, cervello e fisico che queste richiedono. In questo suo secondo ...


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