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Anouar Brahem
Barzakh (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 13/Jan/2018 ] Recorded in 1990, Barzakh was the ECM debut of Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem, and an album that immediately captured the attention of press and public with its gracefulness and authority. "Phenomenal…this is pure Arab music, without 'world music'... |
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Anouar Brahem
Blue Maqams (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Recorded in New York's Avatar Studios in May 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher, Blue Maqams brings Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem together with three brilliant improvisers. For Anouar Brahem and Dave Holland the album marks a reunion: they first... |
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Anouar Brahem
Conte de l'incroyable amour [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] 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... |
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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... |
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Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir [ ECM Records / CD - released 27/Aug/2002 ] |
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Anouar Brahem
Le Pas Du Chat Noir (LP) [ ECM Records / 2 LP - released 7/Jun/2019 ] The Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem has chosen to work in a trio setting this time out, accompanied by Francois Couturier on piano and Jean-Louis Matinier on accordion. Brahem states in the liner notes that these pieces were actually composed on... |
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Anouar Brahem
Le Voyage De Sahar [ ECM Records / CD - released 17/May/2006 ] Featuring persuasive, emotionally powerful new compositions by Brahem, and also incorporating new approaches to a selection of his most frequently performed works. |
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Anouar Brahem
Souvenance - Music for oud, quartet and string orchestra [ ECM / 2 CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] The music of Souvenance, by turns graceful, hypnotic, and taut and starkly dramatic, was recorded in 2014 - six years after oud-master Anouar Brahem's last ECM album, The Astounding Eyes of Rita. "It took a long time to write this music," he... |
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Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner, Django Bates, Dave Holland
After The Last Sky (LP) [ ECM / 2 LP - released 28/Mar/2025 ] Eight years after Blue Maqams, Anouar Brahem returns with a poignant project, titled after a line of verse by poet Mahmoud Darwish, which asks "Where should the birds fly, after the last sky?" Graceful chamber pieces for oud, cello, piano and bass... |
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Anouar Brahem / John Surman / Dave Holland
Thimar [ ECM Records / CD - released 18/May/1998 ] Recorded March 1997. |
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Anthony de Mare (piano)
Liasons - Reimagining Sondheim [ ECM / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] "A starry who s who of the contemporary music world... Each composer was asked to do a free treatment of a Sondheim song, and the results - on this irresistible new CD set are little short of breathtaking... the whole undertaking is a triumph" SF Chr |
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Aparis
Despite The Fire-Fighters [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
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GAVIN BRYARS
Three Viennese Dances Arditti String Quartet / Pascal Pongy : French horn / Charles Fullbrook : percus [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded February 1986 |
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HELENA TULVE
Arboles lloran por lluvia Ariana Savall / Charles Barbier / Taniel Kirikal / NYYD Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD ] Recorded in churches in Tallinn as well as the Estonian Concert Hall, the five compositions heard on "Arboles lloran por lluvia" (Trees cry for rain) give deeper insight into the unique sound-world of Helena Tulve, into music which is nourished by... |
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Arianna Savall (voice, gothic harp, Italian triple harp) Petter Udland Johansen (voice, hardingfele, mandolin)
Hirundo Maris: chants du Sud et du Nord [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] Savall and Petter Udland Johansen describe their project as a journey linking the Mediterranean and the North Sea. |
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Arild Andersen
Celebration [ ECM Records / CD - released 29/Jun/2012 ] |
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Arild Andersen
Green In Blue - Early Quartets [ ECM / 3 CD - released 29/Mar/2010 ] |
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Arild Andersen
In-House Science [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] Norwegian master bassist Arild Andersen's trio with big-toned tenorist Tommy Smith and powerhouse drummer Paolo Vinaccia is one of the most viscerally exciting jazz small groups of the present moment. Its energies are arguably best captured in a... |
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Arild Andersen
Selected Recordings [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] FEATURED ARTISTS Arild Andersen Double- Bass Nils Petter Molvaer Trumpet Tore Brunborg Tenor & Soprano Saxophones Jon Balke Piano, Electric Piano Jon Christensen Drums Ralph Towner Guitar Nana Vasconcelos Percussion, Voice Bendik Hofseth... |
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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... |