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Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Stoa
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·- · Release Info:
█ Artist: Nik BΣrtsch's Ronin
░ Title: Stoa
█ Release Date: Sep-23-2006
▓ Source: CDDA
▒ Encoder: LAME MP3
▓ Quality: VBR // 44.1kHz
░ Number of tracks: 05
▒ Size: 80,2 MB
▒ Label: ECM
▓ Genre: Jazz
█ Playtime: 57:15 min
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Release Notes/Reviews:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/7039011/a/Stoa.htm
From out of nowhere, Switzerlandùbest known in the
jazz community for hosting the increasingly
irrelevant Montreux Jazz Festival, whose headliners
for 2006 include Simply Red, Solomon Burke, Deep
Purple, Sting and Bryan Adamsùseems suddenly to be
turning out some seriously intrepid and innovative
young players.
In the space of a few weeks, we've been introduced,
first, to twin brothers Andreas and Matthias Pichler,
the drum and bass wunderteam featured on Austrian
guitar genius Wolfgang Muthspiel's heartachingly
beautiful Bright Side. And, now, several Alpine
ranges, if not an entire planet away, to pianist and
composer Nik BΣrtsch and his Zurich-based band,
Ronin.s
Stoa, Ronin's debut, is the album James Brown might
have made if he'd appointed Steve Reich musical
director of the Famous Flames, though without the
satin cape and the extremes of primal emotion. It's
minimalism, Jim, but not as we know it:
simultaneously cerebral and on the good foot.
BΣrtsch calls the music ôZen-funk,ö but a more useful
description is perhaps övisceral minimalism.ö BΣrtsch
subscribes to minimalism's launch mission to explore
the Einsteinian deep space of music-as-math,
shuffling and stacking a deck of pre-composed melodic
modules and intricately interlocking rhythms, but
humanises the astro science with earthy funk-inspired
bass ostinatos and kick-ass drums.
Remarkably, pretty well every sound we hear has been
scored, right down to the smallest detail, even
including Kaspar Rast's drums, which sound giddily
spontaneous (Rast and BΣrtsch have been playing
together since they were twelve, which explains some
of it). All the music is created in real time
(BΣrtsch created the band primarily to play live),
with no loops and no overdubs. It's digital-age music
performed with analog sensibility.
Sometimes Ronin sound like a through-composed Famous
Flames or Family Stone, sometimes like Terry Riley at
his mindfucking cross-rhythmic best, and at others
like the Dave Brubeck Quartet locked in tight on a
percussive Time Further Out groove, with Rast the
emphatic punctuating counterpoint to BΣrtsch's
primitif riffs.
Throw in some Satie, an introductory two-minute nod
to the Necks, some Japanese taiko ritual music and a
little syncopated Chopin, and you have... well, not
jazz, maybe, but something very special.
By Chris May, All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21286
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-··-·-·-·- · Track Listing:
01. modul 36 [15:18]
02. modul 35 [09:12]
03. modul 32 [09:33]
04. modul 33 [10:42]
05. modul 38_17 [12:30]
· ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· · Group Notes:
While keeping loyal to our broad music taste, roaming from
jazz and blues to quality world or top rock music, we've also
lately began covering some live events; not regularly, but with
artist-per-release approach, not releasing records that were
already introduced from other stage performances of the band's
same tour, and also only doing this year's, and always quality,
bootlegs. As you might have also noticed, there has been more
satellite versions of certain shows, or even cd press releases
of them.
But we would like that seen as extra work, because our main
concern was - and always will be - retail cd music. Last but
not least, it's imporant to announce that we finally cut down
on our little smoked-out tagging with first capitals, dots on
dates and all that. We tried to be original, but it turned out
that it only bothered people. So, from now on, we stick to
strict tagging rules, and please note that we've also cancalled
the RARE_JAZZ label and that all of our Jazz releases now come
out under the main group's tagging.
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. // 2006 //