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HEINER GOEBBELS
Goebbels: A House Of Call - My Imaginary Notebook Heiner Goebbels, Ensemble Modern Orchestra, Vimbayi Kaziboni [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 21/Oct/2022 ] A House of Call is a cycle of invocations, prayers, poems and songs for large orchestra. It incorporates recordings of sounds and voices from all over the world collected by Heiner Goebbels during his travels, research, and chance encounters. The... |
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Heinz Holliger, Anton Kernjak
Éventail [ ECM New Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2023 ] In his Éventail de musique française, Swiss oboist and composer Heinz Holliger traverses a broad selection of French works for oboe and piano in a multichromatic programme of early 20th century music. As Holliger states in his liner note, "the... |
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HEINZ HOLLIGER
Heinz Holliger: Lunea Ivan Ludlow, Sarah Maria Sun, Christian Gerhaher, Juliane Banse / Philharmonie Zürich, Basler Madrigalisten, Heinz Holliger [ ECM New Series / 2 CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] "Gerhaher is astonishing in the virtuoso principal role...traversing the gamut of language and expression from song to speech...an excellent Basler Madrigalisten and 34-piece Philharmonia Zürich conducted live by Holliger." BBC Opera Choice July 22 |
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THOMAS TALLIS / CHRISTOPHER TYE / JOHN SHEPPARD
Audivi Vocem Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 19/May/2008 ] Edtor's Choice Gramophone Magazine October 2008 -- "If only all history lessons were delivered as beautifully as this one." |
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PEROTIN
Viderunt omnes / Veni creator spiritus / etc The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Feb/2001 ] Recorded September 1988 |
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Tim Berne's Snakeoil: Tim Berne (alto saxophone) with Oscar Noriega (clarinet/bass clarinet) & Matt Mitchell (piano, Tack and Wurlitzer pianos)
Shadow Man [ ECM / CD - released 22/Oct/2013 ] Acclaim for the first, eponymous album from saxophonist-composer Tim Berne's acoustic quartet Snakeoil came from far and wide: All About Jazz described the music as "unpredictable and fresh," while The Guardian called it "an object lesson in... |
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Jan Garbarek
I Took up the Runes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Jan Garbarek, saxophones, with Nana Vasconcelos & Eberhard Weber, Recorded August 1990. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Officium Jan Garbarek (soprano and tenor saxophones) / The Hilliard Ensemble [ ECM New Series / CD - released 1/Jan/1994 ] A hauntingly beautiful combination of medieval unaccompanied choral music and jazz saxophone. |
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Jean-Louis Matinier, Kevin Seddiki
Rivages [ ECM / CD - released 29/May/2020 ] Accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has long been a creative presence on ECM recordings, heard with the groups of Anouar Brahem (on Le pas du chat noir and Le voyage de Sahar), Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit) and François Couturier (Nostalghia, Tarkovsky... |
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Joe Lovano, Marilyn Crispell, Carmen Castaldi
Garden Of Expression [ ECM / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] The debut album of Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry was one of 2019's most talked-about releases. The trio's musical concept - the Boston Globe spoke of "utterances of hushed assurance, lyricism and suspense" - is taken to the next level on its second... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry [ ECM / CD - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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Joe Lovano / Marilyn Crispell / Carmen Castaldi
Trio Tapestry (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 25/Jan/2019 ] The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a... |
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John Abercrombie, Richie Beirach, George Mraz, Peter Donald
The First Quartet [ ECM / 3 CD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] This 3-CD set with recordings from 1978 to 1980, issued in ECM's acclaimed Old & New Masters series, returns some historically-important material to the catalogue, namely the albums Arcade, Abercrombie Quartet and M. The quartet with Richie Beirach,... |
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ANONYMOUS / CAMPION / BANKS / PICFORTH
Amores Pasados John Potter (voice) Anna maria Friman (voice) Ariel Abramovich (lute) Jacob Heringman (lute) [ ECM New Series / CD - released 26/Jul/2015 ] For this innovative attempt to bridge the gap between art song and pop song, John Paul Jones (of Led Zeppelin fame), Sting and Genesis-keyboardist Tony Banks were commissioned to write new lute songs. "Asking a rock music composer to set existing... |
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John Schofield
Solo [ ECM / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] John Scofield's first guitar-solo-recording ever gives a résumé of all the influences and idioms he has cultivated over his career in performances on guitar, accompanied by his own rhythmic pulse and chordal backing using a loop machine. Besides... |
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John Scofield Trio
Uncle John's Band [ ECM / 2 CD - released 13/Oct/2023 ] Named for the Grateful Dead song that concludes this inspired double album, Uncle John's Band features masterful guitarist John Scofield at his most freewheeling. Wide ranging repertoire finds his trio with Vicente Archer and Bill Stewart tackling... |
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John Surman
Invisible Threads [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jan/2018 ] Saxophonist and clarinettist John Surman is often characterized as a quintessentially English improviser and composer, and hints of folk music and a pastoral ambience are attributes of his music on well-loved albums like "The Road to Saint Ives" or... |
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Jon Balke
Discourses [ ECM / CD - released 10/Jul/2020 ] Jon Balke's unique solo work blurs distinctions between composition, improvisation and sound design as Discourses further develops the methodology introduced with the Norwegian pianist's Warp album. Integrated in the resonant sound of his piano music... |
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Jon Balke
Skrifum [ ECM / CD - released 28/Feb/2025 ] From the very first note, Norway's Jon Balke proposes a new sonic dimension with Skrifum, continuing a line of inquiry begun with Warp (2016) and Discourses (2020), solo piano albums which also processed the acoustic environment in which the music... |
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Julia Hülsmann Octet
While I Was Away [ ECM / CD - released 30/Jan/2026 ] After the highly acclaimed run of quartet recordings from Not Far From Here (2019), The Next Door (2022) to Under The Surface (2025), German pianist Julia Hülsmann has decided to alter the narrative and up the ante with a newly formed octet of... |