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Ketil Bjornstad: Early Piano Music
by John Kelman
For a label that's been instrumental in reinventing the concept of solo piano performance, it's surprising that ECM has never released a recital from Ketil Bjørnstad. Instead, they've provided a forum for the Norwegian neo-classicist to experiment in contexts ranging from the duos of Life in Leipzig Night Song to the trio of Remembrance, and the ...
Ketil Bjornstad / Svante Henryson: Night Song
by John Kelman
The relative merits of technical aptitude, when it comes to music, are often hotly debated. Surely possessing more comprehensive and masterful control over the vocabulary of music would be a plus; how, then, can a raw, unschooled bluesman like Robert Johnson resonate in ways that more schooled artists sometimes cannot? Proficiency, then, is really only an ...
ECM March 29th Releases!
Don't miss these two new March 29th releases! Julia Hülsmann Trio Imprint Julia Hülsmann: piano Marc Muellbauer: bass Heinrich Köbberling: drums On the second ECM disc from the popular Berlin-based Julia Hülsmann Trio, the leader's themes stand out in stark relief, as if stamped or printed into the surrounding improvisation. ...
Remembrance
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Remembrance I; Remembrance II; Remembrance III; Remembrance IV; Remembrance V; Remembrance VI; Remembrance VII; Remembrance VIII; Remembrance IX; Remembrance X; Remembrance XI.
Ketil Bjornstad: Remembrance
by Dan McClenaghan
The disc is called Remembrance, but it could just as well have been tagged “Prayers" or “Hymns," or “The Search for Peace and Tranquility," words that seems a fit with the music of Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad.Bjørnstad began his sojourn at ECM Records with Water Stories in 1993. In his eight recordings for the ...
Ketil Bjornstad: Remembrance
by John Kelman
In a career spanning four decades that only began reaching a wider international audience with the release of his first album for ECM, Water Stories (1993), Norwegian pianist Ketil Bjørnstad has collaborated with many fellow Scandinavians, including guitarists Terje Rypdal and Eivind Aarset, bassist Arild Andersen, drummer Jon Christensen and live sampler Jan Bang. Surprisingly, he ...
Life in Leipzig
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: The Sea V; The Pleasure is Mine, I'm Sure; The Sea II; Flotation and Surroundings; Easy Now;
Notturno (fragment); Alai's Room; By the Fjord; The Sea IX; Le Manfred/Foran Peisen; The
Return of Per Ulv.
Ketil Bjorstad / Terje Rypdal: Life in Leipzig
by Budd Kopman
What a sound--a feast for the ears! Life in Leipzig presents pianist Ketil Bjørnstad and guitarist Terje Rypdal in concert at Leipzig's Opera House, during that city's jazz festival in 2005, with music that will astound those unfamiliar with these players or the manner in which they interact. This performance is a snapshot ...
Ketil Bjornstad / Terje Rypdal: Life in Leipzig
by John Kelman
The reward is great when a new and unusual teaming of musicians turns out to be not only artistically and critically successful, but the genesis of long term musical relationships. When ECM's Manfred Eicher proposed bringing neoclassical pianist Ketil Bjørnstad, generally rock- inflected, but stylistically broad guitarist Terje Rypdal, cellist David Darling and drummer Jon Christensen ...
Before the Light
Label: November Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Before the Light No.1 2.Alai
