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Miroslav Vitous
Journey's End [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] This quartet was the primary context for the Czech bassist Miroslav Vitous's creativity in the late 70s and early 80s. "Like Mingus, Vitous is a real leader from the bass, and the music is all the stronger for it" - Gramophone. With three excellent... |
Miroslav Vitous/Jan Garbarek
Atmos [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Jan Garbarek is my favorite sax player," Miroslav Vitous has said. "We have an incredible musical rapport and you can hear it. He understands my Slavic melodies and what I use for atmosphere because he's European and his father was Polish, which is... |
Norma Winstone
Somewhere Called Home [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1986, Norma Winstone's 'Somewhere Called Home' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Oregon
Ecotopia [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded March 1987. Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu replaces the late Collin Walcott and a new chapter in Oregon's music begins. |
Oregon
Oregon [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in February 1983, this is the first ECM album for the Oregon quartet , pioneer band in the trans-cultural zone, in the original line-up with Ralph Towner, Collin Walcott, Paul McCandless and Glen Moore. |
Pat Metheny
Watercolors [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Guitar wonder Metheny has made an astoundingly tasteful and free flowing record here" the Massachusetts Valley Advocate declared. "Metheny's compositions are perfect vehicles for his guitar, which blends smoothly with the breathtaking ensemble... |
Pat Metheny Group
American Garage [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded June 1979, 'American Garage' is a fine album from Metheny and co which features the aptly titled 13-minute track "The Epic". |
Pat Metheny Group
First Circle [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] Metheny's final ECM disc reflected a growing interest in South American rhythms and introduced Argentinean percussionist/singer Pedro Aznar to the group. Includes the popular "Yolanda, You Learn". Recorded in February 1984. |
Paul Bley
Ballads [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] First released in the spring of 1971, these historic recordings from March and July 1967 capture the sound of a genre being born in the free ballads of Annette Peacock, played with extraordinary sensitivity by Paul Bley's trio. Annette Peacock:... |
Paul Bley
Open, to Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in September 1972, Paul Bley's 'Open to Love' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Paul Motian
Conception Vessel [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Recorded in November 1972, Paul Motian's 'Conception Vessel' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Paul Motian
Tribute [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The combination of Paul Motian and Charlie Haden was always a guarantee for magical improvisational interaction, and there is much of it in this attractive line-up with the twinned guitars of Sam Brown and Paul Metzke and Carlos Ward's alto sax.... |
Peter Erskine
Juni [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Recorded in 1997, Juni was the fourth and final ECM album of the Peter Erskine Trio. A piano trio led by a drummer was an unusual proposal and one that initially surprised listeners who had followed Erskine through louder adventures with Weather... |
Ralph Towner
Batik [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of Ralph Towner's 'Batik' album, which was recorded in January 1978. |
Ralph Towner
Diary [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] As the title implies, Diary, the first entirely solo recording from Ralph Towner, is an intimate album. Its quiet reflections get to the heart of some outstanding Towner compositions including "Icarus" and "The Silence of a Candle" which receive... |
Ralph Towner
Solstice [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1974, Ralph Towner's 'Solstice' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Ralph Towner / Gary Burton
Matchbook [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] An album-of-the-year in US magazine High Fidelity and recipient of a 5-star review in Down Beat, Towner and Burton's Matchbook stands up today as a timeless instance of the art of the duo, its vibrant spontaneity still alluring. The wide-ranging... |
Seim Trygve
Different Rivers [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A new name in ECM's pantheon of Nordic talent, Norway's Trygve Seim is an exceptional saxophonist. Influenced by flute traditions of Asia, by free music, by his association with Edward Vesala, and by contemporary composition, he has arrived at a... |
Shankar
Song For Everyone [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded September 1984. Over terrifically propulsive percussion by Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, Shankar, on electric double violin, trades solos and shares thrilling unisons with Jan Garbarek. An immediately appealing East/West collaboration. |
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... |
