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Album

White Night

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: The Eastern Gate; The Bridge; The River; Fireflies; The Moon; The Poet; All the Way; Black Hill; The Forest; The Western Gate.

Article: Album Review

Giunto al ventitreesimo album per la ECM, il musicista tedesco Stephan Micus non cambia la formula a cui si è attenuto per la maggior parte delle sue realizzazioni discografiche. Anche questo lavoro consiste in una raccolta di brani costruiti attorno a una selezione di strumenti etnici da lui personalmente raccolti nel corso dei suoi numerosi viaggi ...

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Stephan Micus: Inland Sea

Read "Inland Sea" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
May 11, 2018

Giunto al suo ventiduesimo titolo per la ECM (che ha pubblicato la quasi totalità della sua discografia), a due anni di distanza dal precedente Nomad Songs, il polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus prosegue a tappe regolari il suo viaggio attraverso una geografia musicale immaginaria ma concreta, espressione di una world music senza indicazione di tempo e di ...

Album

Inland Sea

By Stephan Micus

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Haze; Sowing Wind; Dawn; Flor del Sur; Reaping Storm; Dancing Clouds; Virgen de la Mar; For Shirin and Koshru; Dusk; Nuria.

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Stephan Micus: Inland Sea

Read "Inland Sea" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 16, 2017

Like an actual inland sea, the Stephan Micus catalogue stands as a unique entity distinct from all its surroundings. Always too restless to rely on familiar sounds, he travels to find little-known instruments in far corners of the world and take time getting to know each one's voice. His 22nd ECM recording is centered mostly around ...

Album

Nomad Songs

By Stephan Micus

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Everywhere, Nowhere; Leila; The Promise; The Stars; The Spring; The Blessing; The Feast; Laughing At Thunder; Sea Of Grass; The Dance; Under The Chinar Trees.

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Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

Read "Nomad Songs" reviewed by Mario Calvitti

by Mario Calvitti
November 3, 2015

Il viaggio del polistrumentista tedesco Stephan Micus attraverso una geografia musicale immaginaria aggiunge un'altra tappa al suo già notevole cammino, testimoniato da una discografia che in 40 anni ha raggiunto i 23 titoli, quasi tutti pubblicati da ECM. I canti nomadi del titolo descrivono il complesso della sua opera, risultato di tanti anni di vagabondaggio attraverso ...

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Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

by John Kelman
August 13, 2015

For his 21st ECM recording (his first six originally released on the label's sister imprint Japo but subsequently reissued on ECM), multi-instrumentalist and intrepid musical explorer Stephan Micus simplifies...well, relatively speaking...to the sparer instrumental settings of earlier recordings like The Music of Stones (1989), East of the Night (1985) and Till the End of Time (1978). ...

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Stephan Micus: Nomad Songs

Read "Nomad Songs" reviewed by Mark Sullivan

by Mark Sullivan
August 1, 2015

Multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus has lived in a sound world of his own for many years. World Music usually means borrowing from disparate musical cultures and combining them. But Micus creates World Music for a world of his own creation. He adopts traditional instruments from all over the planet, then combines them in original compositions without referencing ...

Album

Panagia

By Stephan Micus

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: I Praise You, Unfading Rose; You are the Treasure of Life; I Praise You, Lady of Passion; You are the Life-Giving Rain; I Praise You, Sacred Mother; You are Like Fragrant Incense; I Praise You, Sweet-Smelling Cypress; You are Full of Grace; I Praise You, Shelter of the World; You are a Shining Spring; I Praise You, Cloud of Light.