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Gianluigi Trovesi & Gianni Coscia: Round About Weill
by Chris May
In his liner notes to this album, philosopher/novelist Umberto Eco talks about Gianluigi Trovesi and Gianni Coscia revisiting Kurt Weill “in a musical drowse dominated by an almost oneiric principle of contamination." As you do. In plain English, Eco is suggesting that Trovesi and Coscia have approached the music as if in an eclectic, stream of ...
Frances-Marie Uitti/Paul Griffiths: There Is Still Time
by John Kelman
Like its more jazz-centric regular issues, ECM's New Series--which has focused almost exclusively on classical composition, with a strong predilection for contemporary writers like Arvo Pärt and Giya Kancheli--has provided safe haven for projects that blur the boundaries of strict definition. Cellist Anja Lechner and pianist Vassilis Tsaboropoulos' Chants, Hymns and Dances interpreted the music of ...
Michael Galasso: High Lines
by Jerry D'Souza
Making records is a secondary occupation for Michael Galasso. There is a gap of twenty years between his two albums for ECM, but that's not to say that he was languishing in vacuity. Far from it. Galasso was making his imprint in movies through composing, including the score for the acclaimed In The Mood For Love, ...
Michael Galasso: High Lines
by John Kelman
Violinist Michael Galasso has to be one of the most enigmatic figures on the ECM roster. After releasing but a single album for the label, '83's solo Scenes, he then seemed to fall off the face of the earth--at least the more conventional music scene. That doesn't imply, however, that he's been inactive. In fact, while ...
Christian Wallumrod Ensemble: A Year from Easter
by John Kelman
Like fellow Norwegian and occasional collaborator Trygve Seim, pianist Christian Wallumrød occupies a musical space where improvisation takes place within rigidly structured contexts. But while that is nothing particularly revolutionary in and of itself, the degree to which Wallumrød (and Seim) mesh the two potentially divergent philosophies is what distinguishes A Year from Easter, his third ...
Michael Galasso: High Lines
by Eyal Hareuveni
Violin virtuoso player and composer Michael Galasso has released only one album (Scenes, ECM) and that was 22 years ago, but he is still one of the busiest behind-the-scenes musicians around the globe. He composes music to the plays of dramatist Robert Wilson (The Cabinet of Doktor Caligary, the CIVIL warS, Peer Gynt) to films (Korean ...
Charles Lloyd Quartet: Jumping the Creek
by Eric J. Iannelli
On the cover of Charles Lloyd's latest album, a solitary figure walks with some deliberation toward a vast expanse of sea. A series of lines converge at his right, appearing to box him in like one of Francis Bacon's popes. And so before even getting so far as inserting the disc in the player, the listener ...
Dino Saluzzi: Senderos
by Dennis Hollingsworth
The bandoneon, long associated with the tango music of Argentina, is a relative of the German koncertina. Both are bellows and button instruments which produce their sounds via metal reeds. The great Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla had the largest impact in lifting the bandoneon from the dance hall to the concert stage. Dino Saluzzi began his ...
Tord Gustavsen Trio: The Ground
by Eric J. Iannelli
ECM considers pianist Tord Gustavsen to be the least “Nordic" of the several Norwegian artists on its roster. This is because his compositions, while typically pensive and austere, have also endeavored to incorporate the deepest roots of jazz in Afro-American blues and gospel. Musical and philosophical sophistication commingles with raw emotion and lyrical melodies, creating a ...
Keith Jarrett: Radiance
by James Taylor
Albums like Radiance always amaze me. The intimacy of listening to an incredible and accomplished musician like Keith Jarrett shed soul for all, engaging in self-conversation, meditation, and improvisation, is undeniably where it's at. Radiance, ECM's recent two-disc release of solo material, ranks right up there with The Koln Concert, Jarrett's lauded 1975 classic.
