Pat Metheny Group
Offramp [ ECM Records / CD ] Recorded in October 1981, 'Offramp' is one of Pat Metheny's best and most popular recordings. |
Pat Metheny Group
Travels (Reissue) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Recorded in July, October and November 1982, 'Travels' is a superb double disc, live recording from the celebrated Pat Metheny Group. |
Paul Bley
Ballads [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] First released in the spring of 1971, these historic recordings from March and July 1967 capture the sound of a genre being born in the free ballads of Annette Peacock, played with extraordinary sensitivity by Paul Bley's trio. Annette Peacock:... |
Paul Bley
Open to Love [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 22/Sep/2008 ] Recorded in September 1972, Paul Bley's 'Open to Love' album is now re-issued on CD at a special price, in a stylish digi-pack cover - to coincide with ECM's 40th Anniversary. |
Paul Bley / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian
When Will The Blues Leave [ ECM / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] In 1999, a year after recording the splendid reunion album Not Two, Not One, Paul Bley's highly innovative trio with Gary Peacock and Paul Motian took to the road with concerts on both sides of the Atlantic. When Will The Blues Leave documents a... |
Paul Giger
ars moriendi [ ECM / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] On ars moriendi Paul Giger looks at life's flowing patterns, at death and renewal, as he brings together compositions by Bach and new music drawing inspiration from the work of painter Giovanni Segantini and Swiss folk traditions. The album was... |
Paul Motian
Tribute [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 17/May/2019 ] The combination of Paul Motian and Charlie Haden was always a guarantee for magical improvisational interaction, and there is much of it in this attractive line-up with the twinned guitars of Sam Brown and Paul Metzke and Carlos Ward's alto sax.... |
GAVIN BRYARS
Bryars: The Fifth Century PRISM Quartet [ ECM New Series / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "Is this a must-have? If you have any interest in contemporary music, it's certainly worth investigating. I, for one, am going to spend more time with the music of Gavin Bryars." Green Man Review |
Quercus
Nightfall [ ECM / CD - released 16/Jun/2017 ] Quercus's self-titled ECM debut won the album-of-the-year award of the German Record Critics in 2013, was widely praised by the international press, and especially celebrated in Britain where June Tabor has long reigned as "the dark voiced queen of... |
Ralph Alessi Quartet
It's Always Now (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 2/Jun/2023 ] Ralph Alessi's fourth appearance as a leader for the label follows a singular album run that's been met with nothing but praise from The New York Times to The Guardian. The latter lauded Ralph's previous recording Imaginary Friends (2019) for its... |
Ralph Towner
Solstice (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 30/Jun/2017 ] Solstice, recorded 1974, belongs to the great early production projects of ECM, with a new band formed in the studio. It's the first of Towner's recorded encounters with the European players, and this US-Norwegian-German quartet has a character all... |
Ralph Towner / Gary Burton
Matchbook [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 18/Jan/2019 ] An album-of-the-year in US magazine High Fidelity and recipient of a 5-star review in Down Beat, Towner and Burton's Matchbook stands up today as a timeless instance of the art of the duo, its vibrant spontaneity still alluring. The wide-ranging... |
VALENTIN SILVESTROV
leggiero, pesante: String Quartet No. 1 and other chamber works Rosamunde Quartett / Anja Lechner (cello) / Silke Avenhaus (piano) [ ECM / CD - released 1/Jan/2002 ] "Silvestrov's own rendition of Hymn 2001 offers a fascinating glimpse into the performing style he has in mind - everything delivered in a shadowy undertone and heavily pedalled. It makes a fitting conclusion to a beautiful, yet far from... |
Rypdal/Vitous/Dejohn
To Be Continued [ ECM / CD - released 19/Dec/2008 ] |
Shai Maestro
Human (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 29/Jan/2021 ] In its review of pianist Shai Maestro's ECM leader debut The Dream Thief, All About Jazz spoke of "a searching lyrical atmosphere, emotional eloquence and communal virtuosity that serves the music." All of which also applies to Human, where Maestro's... |
Shankar
Song For Everyone [ ECM Touchstones / CD - released 24/Oct/2008 ] Recorded September 1984. Over terrifically propulsive percussion by Zakir Hussain and Trilok Gurtu, Shankar, on electric double violin, trades solos and shares thrilling unisons with Jan Garbarek. An immediately appealing East/West collaboration. |
Shankar / Caroline
The Epidemics (LP) [ ECM / LP - released 15/Dec/2008 ] |
Sinikka Langeland
Wind And Sun [ ECM / CD - released 15/Sep/2023 ] "Being in a room with Sinikka Langeland is like being charmed into a northern forest under a night sky," wrote Fiona Talkington in Songlines. "Her presence and her voice are magical, but when she plays her kantele you can almost feel nature itself... |
Sinikka Langeland
Wolf Rune [ ECM / CD - released 9/Apr/2021 ] Wolf Rune, a solo album, casts a new light on the highly personal idiom of Sinikka Langeland, kantele player and folk singer from Finnskogen, Norway's "Finnish forest". Sinikka integrates her own songs among folk hymns, shamanistic rune songs and... |
Stefano Battaglia
Pelagos [ ECM / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2017 ] Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album programme that includes his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations as well as two versions of the Arabic traditional song... |