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Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour [ ECM Touchstones / CD ] Part of the 'Touchstones' series of specially-priced and newly packaged albums from ECM's back catalogue. All featuring the original artwork and brand new packaging - double cardboard sleeves reminiscent of the original LPs. Tunisian oud master... |
Anouar Brahem
Khomsa [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 8/Jul/2022 ] Khomsa is an old Tunisian female name meaning "the five fingers of the hand", symbolic of good luck in the Tunisian bedouin tradition. It is also the name of the heroine in Nouri Bouzid's film Bezness - the music for which was composed by Anouar... |
Arild Andersen
The Triangle [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Arild Andersen's trio emphasises the writing and playing of Greek pianist Vassilis Tsabropoulos, whose melodic improvising and sense of form are influenced by his background as a classical musician. Tsabropoulos's tunes, and his arrangement of Ravel... |
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Full Force [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 13/Nov/2008 ] This is a specially priced re-issue edition of Art Ensemble of Chicago's 'Full Force' album, which was recorded in January, 1980. |
Bennie Maupin & Herbie Hancock
The Jewel In The Lotus [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] Bennie Maupin has been a musicians' musician for decades, and a highly inventive contributor, on bass clarinet and saxes, to some important records - including Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew", Herbie Hancock's "Mwandishi" and Marion Brown's "Afternoon... |
Bobo Stenson Trio
War Orphans [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Characteristically broad in its stylistic range, this 1997 recording begins with a tune by Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez and ends with Duke Ellington's "Melancholia". In between are original contributions by Anders Jormin and Bobo Stenson... |
Charles Lloyd
The Call [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in July 1993, Charles Lloyd's 'Call' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Chick Corea
Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Chick Corea's first unaccompanied album initiated the solo piano idiom at ECM, and proved to be extremely influential. Alongside music created in the moment, some powerful melodies are explored here, not least that of "Sometime Ago", soon to be a... |
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Collin Walcott
Cloud Dance [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in March 1975, Collin Walcott's 'Cloud Dance' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Dave Holland Quintet
Seeds Of Time [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] As well as being a mighty bassist, Dave Holland has long been a wise band leader, filling his groups with players of differing background and experience and drawing on their collected knowledge and energies. Holland recognised the individuality of... |
Dave Holland Trio
Triplicate [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] "The phenomenal strength of Dave Holland's bass pushes Steve Coleman and Jack DeJohnette into their most powerful work to date," opined the Sydney Morning Herald. "The subtlety of Coleman's inflections, the poise and complexity of his lines, are at... |
David Torn
Cloud About Mercury [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] "Everything is in a state of transition," David Torn explained. "Mercury is an element that captures the essence of change." The changing soundscape of improvisation in the mid-1980s informs the textures and colours of Cloud About Mercury, whose... |
Dino Saluzzi
Andina [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Dino Saluzzi's solo bandoneon breathes songs of Andean mountain villages, family histories, the changing seasons and more, and draws you into the player's world of memory, where chorales and tangos and waltzes resound. Saluzzi epitomises the... |
Dino Saluzzi
Kultrum [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded November 1982. Argentinean bandoneon master's ECM debut album is a spellbinding solo tour de force, tracing an 'imaginary return' to the villages of Dino's childhood, as elements of folk tunes and other root sounds are integrated into the... |
Egberto Gismonti / Nana Vasconcelos
Duas Vozes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Dec/2008 ] Recorded June 1984. The partnership of Egberto Gismonti and Nana Vasconçelos brought new colours to improvised music on ECM. Sounds of the rainforest are conveyed in Nana's percussion, and Egberto's guitar, for all its sophistication, always retained... |
Enrico Rava
The Pilgrim and the Stars [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] The Italian trumpeter's ECM debut with a band featuring John Abercrombie, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen. Rava's evocative compositions, including the meanwhile classic ballad "Blancasnow", inspire strong solos and spirited interaction.orded... |
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The Gary Burton Quintet
Dreams So Real [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in December 1975, Gary Burton's 'Dreams So Real' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Gateway (John Abercrombie / Dave Holland / Jack DeJohnette)
Gateway [ ECM Touchstones / CD ] The 1975 coming-together of the mighty trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Down Beat spoke of "daring and visionary spirit" in a five star review. |
Jack DeJohnette
Special Edition [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] The first version of Jack DeJohnette's Special Edition, which helped to alert the wider world to the talents of saxophonists David Murray and Arthur Blythe, won the Down Beat Readers' Poll Album of the Year award. Lively programme includes two John... |
Jan Garbarek / Bobo Stenson Quartet
Witchi-Tai-To [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] In the mid-1970s there was no European jazz group more popular than the Garbarek-Stenson Quartet, and Witchi-Tai-To was voted 'Record of the Year 1974/75' in Jazz Forum's poll. Down Beat gave the album a five-star review: "Those who think that... |
