Nils Økland Ensemble
Kjølvatn [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jun/2015 ] |
Nils Økland, Sigbjørn Apeland
Glimmer [ ECM / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Violinist Nils Økland and keyboardist Sigbjørn Apeland, musical partners for thirty years, have long explored the interface of Norwegian traditional music and improvisation. Glimmer, an exceptionally beautiful and touching album, takes as its... |
KONSTANTIA GOURZI
Anájikon Nils Mönkemeyer, William Youn, Minguett Quartett, Luzern Academy Orchestra [ ECM New Series / CD - released 30/Apr/2021 ] Anájikon, the second ECM album after Music for piano and string quartet (ECM New Series 2309) by Athens-born and Munich-based Konstantia Gourzi, incorporates her chamber and orchestral music of the past decade. The composer also conducts the Lucerne... |
Nils Okland
Monograph [ ECM Records / CD - released 2/Mar/2009 ] On 'Monograph' - a powerful and moving solo performance - violinist, Okland plays his own music, and underlines his connection to the rich Norwegian folk tradition. |
Nils Petter Molvaer
Khmer (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 6/Jun/2019 ] Massive beats and throbbing grooves underpin the Norwegian trumpeter's fiery solos in a project that forms a bridge between ECM's improvised soundscapes and the brave new world of trip-hop, drum'n'bass, ambient/illbient, techno, industrial,... |
Nils Petter Molvaer
Solid Ether [ ECM Records / CD ] The Norwegian trumpeter's liquid sound floats weightlessly in ambient electronic aether, or vaults over thunderous beats, rock-derived guitar and the noises of DJ Strangefruit's spun turntables. |
Nis Økland (fiddles) Ørjan Haaland (guitars) Per Steinar Lie (drums)
Lumen Drones [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2014 ] Lumen Drones is a fascinating and powerful collaboration between Hardanger fiddle master Nils Økland and Per Stainar Lie and Ørjan Haaland, respectively guitarist and drummer with Norwegian 'post-rock' group The Low Frequency In Stereo. The... |
Norma Winstone
Descansado: Songs For Films [ ECM / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] A creative journey into the world of cinema with new arrangements - by Klaus Gesing and Glauco Venier - of music by Nino Rota, Michel Legrand, William Walton, Bernard Herrmann, and Ennio Morricone for the movies of Scorsese, Godard, Wenders, Jewison,... |
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. |
Norma Winstone
Stories Yet to Tell [ ECM / CD - released 16/Aug/2010 ] |
Oded Tzur
Here Be Dragons [ ECM / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] Here Be Dragons is the ECM debut of New York based, Tel Aviv born saxophonist Oded Tzur, a strikingly original player and musical storyeller. Tzur's graceful and fluid tenor sax sound has been influenced by studies with bansuri master Hariprasad... |
Oded Tzur
Isabela [ ECM / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and... |
Oded Tzur
Isabela (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 18/Nov/2022 ] On his second release for ECM New York-based saxophonist Oded Tzur introduces a heightened sense of urgency and a conceptually augmented approach to his distinctive voice, weaving one underlying musical idea through a series of elaborate and... |
Nils Økland (violin, hardanger fiddle) & Sigbjørn Apeland (piano, harmonium)
Lysøen - Hommage à Ole Bull [ ECM / CD - released 18/Apr/2011 ] Nils Økland and Sigbjørn Apeland are the first musicians to record an album at Lysøen, the Norwegian island home of iconic violinist-composer Ole Bull (1810-1880). For years they have explored Ole Bull's musical landscapes with open minds, and found... |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
In Air Clear and Unseen for piano and string quartet Oleg Malov (piano) / Keller Quartet with Tatiana Melentieva (soprano) [ ECM / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] ECM's documentation of outstanding music from the former Soviet Union continues with Svete Tikhiy, the first of several albums from the Uzbekistan-born and St Petersburg-based composer, Alexander Knaifel. |
ALEXANDER KNAIFEL
Knaifel: Lukomoriye Oleg Malov (Piano), Tatiana Melentieva (Soprano), Piotr Migunov (Bass), Lege Artis Choir, Boris Abalian (Conductor) [ ECM / CD - released 20/Apr/2018 ] The fourth New Series album from the St Petersburg-based composer Alexander Knaifel may be his most wide-ranging to date, voyaging from the sacred to the secular and back again via several inspired detours. It includes two Prayers to the Holy Spirit,... |
Carla Bley
Orchestra Jazz Siciliana (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
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. |
ELENI KARAINDOU
Ulysses' Gaze Original Soundtrack with Kim Kashkashian (viola), Andreas Tsekouras (accordian) and others [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/1995 ] Featuring viola soloist Kim Kashkashian. Sparse, haunting pieces, expansive and perfectly filmic in their execution |
Palle Mikkelborg, Jakob Bro, Marilyn Mazur
Strands: Live At The Danish Radio Concert Hall [ ECM / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] "When we walked out on stage it felt like a homecoming," says Jakob Bro of this texturally spacious and emotionally charged live recording from Copenhagen, on which three of the defining protagonists of improvisation in Denmark, leading musicians... |