Mathias Eick
Midwest [ ECM / CD - released 27/Mar/2015 ] Mathias Eick reflects on distances travelled in this intensely melodic set of original compositions, which makes an imaginative journey from Hem, the tiny Norwegian village where the trumpeter grew up, to the vast plains of Dakota |
Mats Eilertsen, Haarmen Fraanje, Thomas Strønen
And Then Comes The Night [ ECM / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Norwegian bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a distinctive presence on ECM recordings by, amongst others, Tord Gustavsen, Trygve Seim, Mathias Eick, Nils Økland, Wolfert Brederode and Jakob Young and has long maintained several projects of his own,... |
Maya Homburger, baroque violin, Barry Guy, double-bass
Biber - Annunciation / Barry Guy - Celebration, Immeasurable Sky, Ceremanoy, etc [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] "Ceremony" explores the field of tension between old and new music, and between composition and improvisation |
BARRY GUY
Folio Maya Homburger (baroque violin) / Muriel Cantoreggi (violin) / Barry Guy (double-bass) / Manchener Kammerorchester / Christoph Poppen (conductor) [ ECM Records / CD - released 12/Mar/2006 ] Folio” is a major statement from Barry Guy. Over the last three decades the British bassist/composer/improviser, weaving between the genres with characteristic unflagging energy, has uniquely made an impact on jazz, free improvisation and... |
HOSOKAWA
Landscapes: Music for Sho and Strings Mayumi Miyata (sho) / Münchener Kammerorchester / Alexander Liebreich [ ECM Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] ECM's ongoing series of recordings with the Munich Chamber Orchestra continues with an intriguing album of new and recent pieces by Japan's leading composer Toshio Hosokawa. Amongst the compositions are Sakura für Otto Tomek and Cloud and Light, both... |
GIYA KANCHELI
Little Imber / Amao Omi Nederlands Kamerkoor / Rascher Saxophone Quartet / Rustavi Choir / Mamuka Gaganidze (voice) [ ECM / CD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] Two choral works by the great Georgian composer Giya Kancheli. "Little Imber" is a "site-specific" work, profoundly melancholic yet with a hint or irony, directly inspired by the English village of the same name, a ghost-town since it was evacuated... |
Meredith Monk
Book Of Days [ ECM New Series / CD - released 11/Jun/1990 ] |
Meredith Monk
Dolmen Music [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jul/1988 ] |
Meredith Monk
Songs Of Ascension [ ECM New Series / CD - released 16/May/2011 ] |
Meredith Monk : voice / Katie Geissinger : voice / Allison Easter : voice / Dina Emerson : voice / Harry Huff : piano / Nurit Tilles : piano
Monk, Merideth - Volcano Songs [ ECM Records / CD ] "a magnificent welling up of emotion from textless songs meant to sustain hearts made heavy by AIDS" Los Angeles Times |
Mette Henriette
Mette Henriette [ ECM / 2 CD - released 11/Dec/2015 ] The untitled ECM double-album debut of young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg is an arrestingly original musical statement. 'Jazz' players and 'classical' players are drawn together in her ensembles,... |
Mette Henriette
Mette Henriette (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 11/Dec/2015 ] The untitled ECM double-album debut of young Norwegian saxophonist, composer and improviser Mette Henriette Martedatter Rølvåg is an arrestingly original musical statement. 'Jazz' players and 'classical' players are drawn together in her ensembles,... |
Michael Benita Quartet
Looking At Sounds [ ECM / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Algeria-born bassist Michel Benita, long a mainstay of the French jazz scene, introduces his revised quartet. Swiss flugelhornist Matthieu Michel and French drummer Philippe Garcia are retained from Benita's Ethics band, and the quartet is completed... |
Michael Formanek
The Rub & Spare Change [ ECM / CD - released 23/Aug/2010 ] |
Michael Mantler
Alien [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Michael Mantler & Don Preston
Alien (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] Michael Mantler, trumpet. Don Preston, synthesizers. |
Michael Mantler
Comment C'est [ ECM / CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] Declaring that he is "no longer able to ignore overwhelming and outrageous recent world events", trumpeter and composer Michael Mantler leaves the world of abstract music behind to tackle a host of contemporary evils head-on. His texts for Comment... |
Michael Mantler
For Two [ ECM / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] The concise and relatively short pieces featured on this new recording continue Michael Mantler's basic concept of creating music that is in part completely notated, but also involves improvisation. |
Michael Mantler
Movies And More Movies [ ECM / CD - released 20/Mar/2000 ] For light relief from his darker, more existential works, Michael Mantler assembled two fine ensembles at the end of the 1970s to play music that might be described as the Thinking Man's Answer to Fusion. 'Like a more mature and musicianly Mahavishnu... |
Michel Benita / Ethics
River Silver [ ECM / CD - released 20/Jan/2016 ] After two exemplary ECM discs in the company of Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita has an album with his own group. The Ethics band is international, and the Algiers-born bassist leads a line-up comprised of a flugelhornist from Fribourg, Switzerland, a... |