ECM New Releases

[mjazzg]

Another big Another Timbre fan here too, music and design aesthetic 

[T.D.]

38 minutes ago, mjzee said:

This school of record album design (typography plus some random graphic) has been around a long time.  I was reminded of that this morning when this album popped up on my shuffle playlist:

 

That image (from cover of album released in 1961) is of interest to geeks! It looks somewhat fractal, and the term "fractal" was not coined until 1975. 🤔

[mjzee]

1 hour ago, T.D. said:

That image (from cover of album released in 1961) is of interest to geeks! It looks somewhat fractal, and the term "fractal" was not coined until 1975. 🤔

Agreed!  Mandelbrot would be proud.

[Niko]

it's an interesting credit "photo: Tom Jungman". first, I never would have thought that this is a photo (of what?  not the British coastline) and second, this is Tom Jungman's only trace in the album cover scene... 

[clifford_thornton]

Some of those Jazzland covers with abstract designs remind me of 'stock' covers that various labels used throughout the '60s and '70s. They are very cheap but some have their charm.

[mjzee]

Release date May 16:

Savina Yannatou's fifth ECM album revolves around the theme of water in its many manifestations. Water as a blessing and a curse. A life-sustaining source and a mortal threat in the elemental power of the storm. Multicultural in their musical passions, and daring in their stylistic juxtapositions, Savina and friends also illuminate the connections between the traditions. Featuring Primavera en Salonico and Lamia Bedioui.

 

 

 

 

[mjzee]

Release date June 13:

The Scandinavian project Arcanum brings together four artists all well-known to followers of directions in music at ECM: Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Anders Jormin and Markku Ounaskari. They've played together in many permutations over the years, but this is their first album as a quartet. Compositions by Anders Jormin and Trygve Seim, a Finnish traditional and Jormin's arrangement of "What Reason Could I Give" are slotted into a program of graceful collective improvisations distinguished by lyrical imagination, reflective soloing and sensitive group interaction.

[mjazzg]

That's going to be Nordic whispiness @Rabshakeh™ of the highest order, and I can't wait. I've wanted to hear Henriksen with another horn player for a while because it's been a while

[Rabshakeh]

Henriksen is actually one of the names I've been enjoying the most on my icy Nordic deep dives.