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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. |
Barre Phillips
Mountainscapes [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] Barre Phillips's Mountainscapes brings together strongly contrasting elements, the furious high-energy playing of the Surman/Phillips/Martin trio juxtaposed with spacious impressionistic pieces originally created for Carolyn Carlson's ballet dancers.... |
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... |
Bill Connors
Of Mist and Melting [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] A guitarist's guitarist, Bill Connors has always had the admiration of his peers. Steve Tibbetts recently praised Connors's "left-hand vibrato, his sense of space, his liquid phrasing, the way he lingers on a note" - all qualities in evidence on... |
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
Children's Songs [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded July 1983. These solo piano pieces, simple-yet-profound (comparisons have been made with Bartók's Makrokosmos), have lost none of their charm. |
Gary Burton / Chick Corea
Crystal Silence [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The Corea/Burton duo was brought together by producer Manfred Eicher, and Crystal Silence (recorded in 1972) brought a new chamber music sensibility into jazz improvisation, distinguished by an effervescence of melody and countermelody, with... |
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 Quartet
Conference Of The Birds [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] It had been preceded by ECM duo albums with Barre Phillips and with Derek Bailey as well as the cooperative band Circle's great Paris Concert, but Conference of the Birds, recorded in 1972, was Dave Holland's first album as a full-fledged leader. An... |
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 Darling
Cello [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The modestly titled Cello has a cover image by Jean-Luc Godard and much of the music featured here gradually made its way into the great director's films. This music paints images in the mind. Blogger Tyran Grillo wrote that "David Darling's Cello is... |
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... |
