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Small Places

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Small Places; Pong; Parting Ways; Rising Tensions and Awesome Light; Slightly Off Axis; Seeds and Birdman; Wobble and Spill; Soft Reality.

Album

Label: JazzMa Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 01. Small Places; 02. Pong; 03. Parting Ways; 04. Rising Tensions and Awesome Light; 05 Slightly Off Axis; 06. Seeds and Birdman; 07. Wobble and Spill; 08. Soft Reality.

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Michael Formanek: Small Places

Read "Small Places" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
October 26, 2012

Bassist Michael Formanek's second release on ECM, Small Places, is an impassioned and gratifying album. Working with the same quartet as his first, The Rub and Spare Change (ECM, 2010), the music here has crystallized and matured further as the familiarity and camaraderie among the artists has grown. Although The Rub was freer ...

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Michael Formanek: Small Places

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 22, 2012

A due anni da The Rub and Spare Change , sempre su ECM, ecco la nuova fatica di quell'autentica all stars che è il quartetto di Michael Formanek. Le attese, anche stavolta, non vanno certo deluse. I due brani iniziali, molto geometrici, per così dire appuntiti, sembrano in verità risentire qua e là di un minimo ...

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Michael Formanek: Small Places

Read "Small Places" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins
October 20, 2012

Small Places is bassist Michael Formanek's follow-up to 2009's The Rub and Spare Change, his critically acclaimed ECM debut as a leader. While Formanek's sophomore effort for the label features the same high profile sidemen, it differs in that the lineup rehearsed the material live before heading into the studio with producer Manfred Eicher, where every ...

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Michael Formanek: Small Places

Read "Small Places" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
October 5, 2012

It's no secret that pathological fans view every artist discovered as a new branch on an endlessly growing musical tree. It should come as no surprise, then, that labels--at least, those run by folks as pathological as the fans they hope to attract--operate with the same eye to discovery and expansion. ECM has, in its forty-plus ...