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Anouar Brahem: Le Pas du Chat Noir
by Sergio Masferrer
Anouar Brahem knows perfectly the formula to condense in the air the fragrance of incense, the visual impression of an orange-colored sky over the adobe terraces in Tunis, and a sea of reminiscences shaken up by his melodies. His music seems to be languid, but its lassitude takes you in, absorbs you, and softly converts any ...
Stephan Micus: Life
by AAJ Staff
German composer Stephan Micus has spent decades traveling the world in search of new music, as much figuratively as literally, and the results of his very serious globe-trotting experiences have been documented on sixteen ECM albums, the latest being Life. He brings together a large collection of instruments from Africa, Asia, and Europe for this particular ...
Stephan Micus: Life
by John Kelman
Over a thirty-year career, multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has created his own world, one based on a life of constant study of diverse culture, religion, musical instruments and form. Each of the sixteen albums he has recorded to date has incorporated newly acquired instruments from places as far abroad as Armenia, Bali and Tibet. Micus records his ...
Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams
by Mark F. Turner
The late night radio escapades of the '80s introduced the instrumental music style dubbed New Age, which demonstrated a different path from the over-commercialized contemporary scene, yet also appealed to audiences who desired more creative, meditative, and structured music. Groups such as Tangerine Dream and pianist George Winston filled the airwaves with an assorted mix of ...
Anja Lechner/Vassilis Tsaboropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
by John Kelman
While it is a lesser-known fact that many great classical compositions stemmed from improvisation, performance of most classical work is much more literal, with interpretation being relegated to more subtle inflection, nuance and manner of phrasing. Rarely does such work not only expect a more active degree of improvisation from the performer, but actually demand it. ...
Maneri/Maneri/Phillips: Angles of Repose
by Ty Cumbie
Angles of Repose is the brand new release of a 2-year-old recording made at Chapelle Sainte Philomène, an old chapel in the south of France. Mat and dad Joe Maneri brought the veteran bassist Barre Phillips into the fold for these very personal music-making sessions, and ECM saw fit to share the results with us. The ...
John Abercrombie: Class Trip
by A. Henkin
When guitarist John Abercrombie connected with violinist Mark Feldman for Open Land (ECM, '99), he continued a tradition, albeit in an updated fashion, that stretched back to Reinhardt and Grappelli. Introducing drummer Joey Baron in to the fold for the followup, Cat n' Mouse (ECM, '02), continued the lineage down to the triumvirate of John McLaughlin, ...
Jan Garbarek: In Praise of Dreams
by John Kelman
Following a six-year break from recording, with only a guest appearance on bassist Miroslav Vitous' Universal Syncopations ('03) and a :Rarum compilation ('02), Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek returns with his first album of new material since Rites ('98). In Praise of Dreams continues along the path established by such recordings as Legend of the Seven Dreams ...
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: Memory/Vision
by Jerry D'Souza
Man and machine manipulate music. Man thinks and machine obeys. That's the way it has been with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since the group banded together in 1992. Sound and signal processors, as well as computers, are fed by the imagination of the players. Technology swallows the impulse and pours it out. What happens at ...
