Claude Debussy Préludes Alexei Lubimov piano Alexei Zuev piano Recorded April 2011, Sint-Pieterskerk, Leut, Belgium Engineer: Peter Laenger Production coordination: Guido Gorna Executive producer: Manfred Eicher An ECM Production My shadow glides in silence over the watercourse […] A glow arises in my breast, the one mirrored in the water. –Federico García Lorca, “Debussy” Though […]
Tre Voci Marina Piccinini flute Kim Kashkashian viola Sivan Magen harp Recorded April 2013, Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano Engineer: Markus Heiland Produced by Manfred Eicher When is it really over? What is the true end? All borders are as if with a stick of wood or with the heel of a shoe driven into the earth. Until then…here […]
Thomas StrønenAyumi TanakaMarthe LeaBayou Marthe Lea clarinet, voice, percussionAyumi Tanaka pianoThomas Strønen drums, percussionRecorded August 2018, Stelio Molo RSI, LuganoEngineer: Lara PersiaCover photo: Caterina Di PerriProduced by Manfred EicherRelease date: April 9, 2021 From Thomas Strønen’s Time Is A Blind Guide emerges the drummer/bandleader alongside pianist Ayumi Tanaka, delineating a fresh triangle with clarinetist/vocalist/percussionist Marthe Lea. Though metaphysically […]
Below is a list of ECM releases by catalogue number. Dates in parentheses indicate the month(s) and/or year(s) in which albums were recorded. ECM RECORDINGSECM 1001 Mal Waldron Trio Free at Last (Nov 1969) ECM 1002 Just Music s/t (Dec 1969) ECM 1003 Paul Bley Trio Paul Bley with Gary Peacock (1964/68) ECM 1004 Marion Brown […]
Konstantia Gourzi Music for piano and string quartet Lorenda Ramou piano Ensemble Coriolis Heather Cottrell violin Susanne Pietsch violin Klaus-Peter Werani viola Hanno Simons violoncello Recorded July 2012, Himmelfahrtskirche, Munich Engineer: Stephan Schellmann Produced by Manfred Eicher Release date: October 10, 2014 Greek composer Konstantia Gourzi’s approach to time plus ECM’s approach to space equals […]
Momo Kodama Point and Line Momo Kodamapiano Recorded January 2016, Historischer Reitstadel, Neumarkt Engineer: Stephan Schellmann Produced by Manfred Eicher Release date: January 27, 2017 Four years after making her ECM New Series debut with La vallée des cloches, pianist Momo Kodama returns with a program that is equally adventurous in expectation and inevitable in […]
While feeding your eyes, why not feed your ears: Guitarist Matt Borghi and saxophonist Michael Teager turn gasses into solids. Their process, however, goes beyond chemistry and physics, drawing as they do from a less definable well that some might call inspiration, others spirit, and still others ether. Separately, they have broadened their cartographies across […]
Aaron Parks Arborescence Aaron Parks piano Recorded November 2011 at Mechanics Hall, Worcester, MA Engineer: Rick Kwan Mixed at Avatar Studios, New York Produced by Sun Chung Into the forest again whence all roads depend this way and that to lead him back. –Robert Creeley Aaron Parks’s solo ECM debut might just as well be […]
Gidon Kremer Edition Lockenhaus The Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival is the brainchild of violinist Gidon Kremer. Once called an “anti-festival,” it is more a gathering of friends bound by a love of all things chamber and a certain haphazard brilliance: its constant cancellations, rescheduling, and daunting thematic choices somehow coalesce into a coherent yearly event. […]
Alexei Lubimov Der Bote – Elegies for Piano Alexei Lubimov piano Recorded December 2000, Radio DRS, Zürich Engineer: Peter Laenger Produced by Manfred Eicher The title of Alexei Lubimov’s second recital for ECM translates as “The Messenger,” and perhaps no more fitting sobriquet could apply to the Russian pianist in this collection of ten […]
Between Sound and Space: ECM Records and Beyond 