Sinikka Langeland
Wind And Sun [ ECM / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] "Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky," wrote Fiona Talkington in Songlines. "Her presence and her voice are magical, but when she plays her kantele you can almost feel nature itself... |
Sinikka Langeland
Wolf Rune [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Wolf Rune, a solo album, casts a new light on the highly personal idiom of Sinikka Langeland, kantele player and folk singer from Finnskogen, Norway's "Finnish forest". Sinikka integrates her own songs among folk hymns, shamanistic rune songs and... |
Stefano Battaglia
Pelagos [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album programme that includes his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations as well as two versions of the Arabic traditional song... |
Stephan Micus
Inland Sea [ ECM / CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Inland Sea is Stephan Micus' 22nd solo album for ECM, each one taking his audience on musical journeys to far-flung places and unique sound worlds. For decades, he has been travelling, collecting and studying musical instruments from all over the... |
Stephan Micus
Thunder [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Stephan Micus is a unique musician and composer. He collects and studies instruments from all around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. This is his 25th solo album for ECM and its sound is dominated by the four-metre long... |
Stephan Micus
Thunder (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Stephan Micus is a unique musician and composer. He collects and studies instruments from all around the world and creates his own musical journeys with them. This is his 25th solo album for ECM and its sound is dominated by the four-metre long... |
Stephan Micus
To The Evening Child [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Stephan Micus shapes his music by taking the instruments of the world out of their cultural, historical or traditional contexts and blending them in new ways. The colours of To The Evening Child (recorded 1992) are established through instrumental... |
Steve Kuhn
Trance [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Steve Kuhn on piano, with Steve Swallow on electric bass, Jack DeJohnette on drums and Sue Evans on percussion. |
LUTOSLAWSKI
Musique funebre (with works by Bartok) Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Dennis Russell Davies [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] "Russell Davies gives both pieces with the intensity they demand, the sound of the Stuttgart Kammerorchester warm and heard in a generously resonant acoustic." (Sunday Times) |
John Surman / John Warren
The Brass Project [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] The original conceptual idea for the Brass Project was to set John Surman's improvising trio with bassist Chris Laurence and drummer John Marshall at the centre of a radiant brass choir of trumpets and trombones. With John Warren invited to... |
Susanne Abbuehl
Compass [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Compass is a voyage at many levels: through music and text, with images evoking the freshness of sea air and the colours of wildflowers. A voyage through polar extreme of jazz - from Chick Corea to Sun Ra, through folk song in the slipstream of... |
Tallinn Chamber Orchestra / Tonu Kaljuste
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Eller, Heino-LAAriline SAit / Neenia / Five Pieces for String Orchestra, etc [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Jun/2001 ] Heino Eller-the composer many call-'the father of modern Estonian music' |
Terje Rypdal
Blue [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Terje Rypdal, Bjørn Kjellemyr, and Audun Kleive continue where they left off on Chaser with this equally memorable set. Blue is not a companion album, however. It is the yin to the other's yang: on the surface they are solid teardrops of color, but... |
Terje Rypdal
Descendre [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Among the pleasures of this group of Rypdal reissues is the presence throughout of drummer Jon Christensen. Terje and Jon, lifelong friends, played on dozens of albums and in many groups together. Christensen always alluded to the trio with Terje and... |
Terje Rypdal
Terje Rypdal [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1971. |
Terje Rypdal
Waves [ ECM / CD - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Terje Rypdal's Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist's association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje's most enduringly popular pieces, "Per... |
Terje Rypdal
Waves (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Nov/2016 ] Terje Rypdal's Waves (recorded 1977) announced the beginning of the Norwegian guitarist's association with Danish trumpeter Palle Mikkelborg, which continues to this day. The album also introduced one of Terje's most enduringly popular pieces, "Per... |
Terje Rypdal
What Comes After [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in January 1974, CD is re-released in October 2020 in the ECM Touchstone Series. What Comes After introduced a new alliance with American bassist Barre Phillips whose freely creative arco playing is often the second lead voice... |
Terje Rypdal
Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Initially published in November 1974. Whenever I Seem To Be Far Away is, by common consensus, one of Terje's early masterpieces. Rypdal has said that he sometimes felt conflicted in his early years, pulled in different directions by the urges to... |
Thomas Larcher
The Living Mountain [ ECM New Series / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] |