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Manfred Eicher: ECM - Selected Signs III - VIII
by John Kelman
When München's Haus der Kunst sponsored a nearly three-month exhibition about the ECM Records label, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, which ran from November, 2012 to February, 2013, there was far more to it than just bringing together collections of album covers, rarely seen video, archival tapes, imagery and concert performances. As much as ECM has carved ...
Jazz Quanta June
by C. Michael Bailey
Francy Boland Playing With the Trio Schema 2013 Duke Ellington's rare trio recordings are always a treat. Money Jungle (United Artist, 1963) a trio session Ellington made with bassist Charles Mingus and drummer Max Roach is readily memorable. The big band leader Ellington was clearly able to hold ...
Maria Faust: Sacrum Facere
by Eyal Hareuveni
Estonian, Denmark-based composer and reeds player Maria Faust's latest project, Sacrum Facere, is a song cycle inspired by Estonian folklore and the runo singing from the Setu region, close to the Russian border. Faust composed and arranged the music for brass ensemble, three woodwinds, prepared piano, and Estonian folk harp, the kannel, in a manner that ...
Jazz in Church 2014, Bucharest, Romania
by Adriana Carcu
Jazz in Church Lutheran Church Bucharest April 3-6, 2014 The second edition of the Bucharest Jazz in Church Festival found the best way to establish a valuable musical tradition, not only in Romania, but also the wider, European jazz arena. Featuring musicians from France, Italy, UK, ...
Baltic Mood! Nuovi suoni dall’Estonia
by Enrico Bettinello
Nazione piccola--nemmeno un milione e mezzo di abitanti--ma ricca di talento musicale, l'Estonia. I nomi più famosi sono certamente quelli di Arvo Pärt o del direttore d'orchestra Neeme Järvi, ma anche altri compositori percorrono con originalità le strade della scrittura contemporanea. ECM abbina ad esempio due dischi interessanti nelle sue uscite ...
Ikarus: Through birds, through fire, but not through glass
by Eyal Hareuveni
The evocative title of the debut EP of the Swiss quintet Ikarus is inspired by a painting of French surrealist painter Yves Tanguy. This trio, as the painter, attempts to create a surreal, cinematic tapestry of dreamy images and reality with its music, its presentation on stage--with the light design and the musicians tailor- made clothes--and ...
Adam's Lament
By Arvo Part
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing:
01. Adam’s Lament - 24:09; 02. Beatus Petronius - 5:16; 03. Salve Regina - 12:15; 04. Statuit ei Dominus - 4:57; 05. Alleluia-Tropus - 2:39; 06. L'Abbé Agathon - 14:04; 07. Estonian Lullaby - 2:08; 08. Christmas Lullaby - 2:27.
Live From Old York: Delta Saxophone Quartet, Ballaké Sissoko, Larry Miller & Blackbeard's Tea Party
by Martin Longley
Delta Saxophone Quartet The Chapel November 22, 2013 The Delta Saxophone Quartet's best-known album is Dedicated To You, But You Weren't Listening (MoonJune, 2007) which tackled the music of Soft Machine, particularly concentrating on the the output of bassist/composer Hugh Hopper. Delta is a group which ostensibly exists within ...
Iva Bittova: Knowing, Feeling...
by Ian Patterson
[Note: This article was first published in Music & Literature, a North American magazine dedicated to promoting artists worthy of wider attention] Iva Bittová is a rare talent. She has developed a personal idiom and vocabulary that is almost entirely her own. Her sound, her very personal language, forged from the union of ...
No End
by John Kelman
When Keith Jarrett released Spirits in 1986 on his longstanding/exclusive label, Germany's ECM Records, this two-disc home recording- -featuring the pianist on a multitude of instruments in addition to his main axe, including a bevy or recorders and flutes, guitar, saz and percussion--came out of the blue to his legion of fans while, at the same ...
