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Pianist/Composer Nik Bartsch Interviewed at All About Jazz
Pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch would be the first to recognize that he is no revolutionary, as his aesthetic vision draws inspiration from multiple sources, ranging from 20th century classical music to funk, and from Japanese ritual music to minimalism. The distillation of all these sounds results in a music that invites meditation and at the ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyria
by Dan McClenaghan
On Stoa (ECM Records, 2005), Nik Bärtsch's Ronin offered up music made with a clock-like precision. Zen Funk, Ritual Groove Music--take your pick of descriptive tags--was meted out by a machine-like ensemble, using repetition and reduction and space sparked by the leader's punctuating, crystalline piano notes underlain, a great deal of the time, by a bass/contrabass ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Llyria
by Chris May
Pianist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin has traveled a long way since its formation in 2001, through its early albums on Ronin Rhythm Records, its signing with ECM, and the three discs that label has so far released. Mid-decade, the Swiss band was forging its reputation with a relentlessly beat-centric style which Bärtsch dubbed “Zen funk" and “ritual ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Andrey Henkin
It may seem odd to begin a CD review by expressing gratitude over its length, but there you have it. Pianist Nik Bärtsch's Holon, with his Ronin group, is a shade under 56 minutes and it is to his credit that he understands that with his particular brand of music, less is more. Like a walk ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Dan McClenaghan
For those of us who weren't paying attention earlier, Nik Bartsch's Ronin first burst on the scene with its 2007 ECM Records debut, Stoa. But the Swiss composer-pianist had, in fact, been building a just-beneath-the-radar discography for several years on his own Ronin Rhythm Records.Which brings us to Holon, Bartsch's second ECM set, one ...
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Holon
by AAJ Italy Staff
“I always leave the concert hall when i start tapping my foot”. Partendo da questa frase di Morton Feldman, monito semiserio (e frase iniziale delle brevi note di copertina) sull’opposizione tra il momento dell’ascolto concentrato e quello della danza e della liberazione, il pianista svizzero Bärtsch cerca di superarne l’intima contraddizione. La chiave di volta dice ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Budd Kopman
With the release of Stoa (ECM, 2006), pianist Nik Bärtsch and his band Ronin caused a tsunami of words to be written that attempted to describe what this music was and why it evoked such strong emotions. Certainly, the shock of the new had something to do with it. Upon reflection, however, the key things turned ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by John Kelman
While Nik Bärtsch's 2006 ECM debut, Stoa, was a powerful first shot across the international bow, garnering a place on many journalists' “Best of" lists for the year, the Swiss pianist had, in fact, been honing his self-proclaimed “Zen Funk" since the beginning of the decade, starting with the equally descriptive Ritual Groove Music (Ronin Rhythm ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Holon
by Chris May
Pianist/composer Nik Bartsch's wondrous synthesis of intellect and funk, of lofty cerebral abstraction and urgent physical energy, is so thrilling that it may produce in the listener an urge to scramble on top of the nearest building and start yelling “hallelujah!" and “eureka!" at everyone within earshot. Holon is the second album Bartsch has ...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin: Live
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Live Ronin Rhythm Records 2006 The critical enthusiasm that greeted Stoa (ECM, 2006), by keyboardist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin band, has encouraged some listeners to look into his back catalogue. It turns out that the Zurich-based musician has been developing the musical project that gave rise to Stoa ...
