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Nik Bartsch: The Road To Stoa
by Budd Kopman
Pianist/composer Nik Bartsch calls what he does “ritual groove music," in an attempt to get across the mix of aesthetics and philosophy involved. This mix includes the mastery of technique, the total immersion in and lack of separation between thought and action, pure funkiness, emotionalism vs. minimalism, repetition vs. development, and trance vs. the dramatic--with the ...
Stoa
By Nik Bärtsch
Label: ECM Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Modul 36; Modul 35; Modul 32; Modul 33; Modul 38_17.
Nik Bartsch: Commitment, Movement, and the Batman Spirit
by Paul Olson
Swiss composer/keyboardist Nik Bärtsch doesn't play jazz, pop, or classical music. Rather, he and his groups Mobile and Ronin play a remarkable synthesis of the above genres, and the result is something Bärtsch calls “ritual groove music." Although Bärtsch has been developing this music--and the elaborate aesthetic and philosophical aesthetic that support and surrounds ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by John Kelman
One of ECM's strengths is its ability to find young players with new conceptions that not only keep its catalogue fresh and innovative, but also often create insidious paradigm shifts which extend beyond the label's purview. In recent years artists like saxophonist Trygve Seim and pianist Tord Gustavsen have--often in the subtlest of ways--helped reshape contemporary ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by Budd Kopman
What is this music? What genre does it inhabit? What label best suits it? Nik Bärtsch himself calls it Zen-funk, and it easily could fit the trance label, but only at times. Reichian or Glassian minimalism springs to mind, but again only at times. Calling it progressive rock would be a gigantic stretch. Is it jazz, ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Stoa
by Chris May
From out of nowhere, Switzerland--best known in the jazz community for hosting the increasingly irrelevant Montreux Jazz Festival, whose headliners for 2006 include Simply Red, Solomon Burke, Deep Purple, Sting and Bryan Adams--seems suddenly to be turning out some seriously intrepid and innovative young players. In the space of a few weeks, we've been introduced, first, ...
