Voice
Fragments
Solo album by Iva Bittová (voice, violin, kalimba): twelve pieces titled Fragments I-XII, mostly her own. Recorded February 2012 at Auditorio Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Mercurial Balm
Second ECM album by Food, Thomas Strønen (drums, electronics) and Iain Ballamy (saxophones), with Christian Fennesz, Eivind Aarset, Nils Petter Molvær and Prakash Sontakke. Recorded 2010-2011 at Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Victoria National Jazz Scene …
Say And Play
Second ECM album by Batagraf, led by Jon Balke and Helge Andreas Norbakken, with Erland Dahlen, singer Emilie Stoesen Christensen and poet Torgeir Rebolledo Pedersen, recorded in various locations in 2009 and mixed by Olav Torget in 2010/11.
Ad Lucem
Anders Jormin's Latin song cycle for singers Mariam Wallentin and Erika Angell, Fredrik Ljungkvist (clarinets, tenor saxophone) and Jon Fält (drums), with one poem by Pia Tafdrup. Recorded January 2011 at Studio Epidemin, Göteborg.
Celestial Circle
Debut recording of Marilyn Mazur's quartet Celestial Circle, with singer Josefine Cronholm, pianist John Taylor and bassist Anders Jormin: songs by Mazur and group improvisations. Recorded December 2010 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Ei…
Arco Iris
Amina Alaoui (vocals, daf) with Saïfallah Ben Abderrazak (violin), Sofiane Negra (oud), José Luis Montón (flamenco guitar), Eduardo Miranda (mandolin) and Idriss Agnel (percussion). Recorded April 2010 at Auditorio RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfred Ei…
Bold As Light
Solo album by Stephan Micus in ten parts, layering raj nplaim (Laotian free-reed pipe), nohkan, sho, zithers, kalimba, shakuhachi, sinding and up to nineteen of his own voices. Recorded 2007-2010 at MCM Studios; released 2010.
Saburi
Second ECM album by the Berlin quartet Cyminology: Cymin Samawatie (voice, Farsi lyrics of her own), Benedikt Jahnel (piano), Ralf Schwarz (double bass), Ketan Bhatti (drums, percussion). Recorded January 2010, Rainbow Studio, Oslo; released 2011.
Oylam
Solo ECM debut of New York singer, keyboardist and cantor Judith Berkson: her own songs, jazz standards, Schubert, cantorial music and Yiddish song, with voice, piano, Wurlitzer, Rhodes and Hammond. Recorded April 2009 at Artesuono, Udine, produced b…
Kuára - Psalms and Folk Songs
Trio of Finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari, pianist Samuli Mikkonen and Norwegian trumpeter and singer Per Jørgensen improvising on Russian psalms and Karelian, Vepsian and Udmurt folk songs. Recorded May 2009 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.
Restored, Returned
Tord Gustavsen's first ensemble album after his trio trilogy, with Tore Brunborg (saxophones), Kristin Asbjørnsen (vocals, W.H. Auden settings), Mats Eilertsen (double bass) and Jarle Vespestad (drums). Recorded January 2009, Rainbow Studio, Oslo; EC…
As Ney
ECM debut of Cyminology: Cymin Samawatie (vocals), Benedikt Jahnel (piano), Ralf Schwarz (double bass) and Ketan Bhatti (drums, percussion), singing Farsi texts by Samawatie, Rumi, Hafez and Forough Farrokhzaad. Recorded in 2008 at Rainbow Studio, Os…
Fasil
Song cycle on the life of Aisha by Marc Sinan (guitar) and Julia Hülsmann (piano, compositions) to texts by Marc Schiffer, with Yelena Kuljić (voice), Lena Thies (viola), Marc Muellbauer and Heinrich Köbberling. Recorded March 2008, Rainbow Studio, O…
Snow
Eight-part suite by Stephan Micus, who plays every instrument and sings every voice: duduk, bass duduk, Bavarian zither, sinding and doussn' gouni harps, charangos, hammered dulcimers, nay, gongs. Recorded 2005-2007 at MCM Studios; his 18th ECM album…
Songs Of An Other
Third ECM album by Greek singer Savina Yannatou with the Thessaloniki ensemble Primavera en Salonico: traditional songs from Armenia, the Balkans, Kazakhstan, Italy and Greece, arranged mostly by Kostas Vomvolos. Recorded October 2007, Sierra Studios…
Siwan
Jon Balke (keyboards, conductor) and Amina Alaoui (voice) set Andalusian, Sufi and Christian mystical poetry with Kheir Eddine M'Kachiche (violin), Jon Hassell (trumpet, electronics) and Bjarte Eike's Barokksolistene. Recorded 2007-2008 at Rainbow St…
Universal Syncopations II
Miroslav Vitous (double bass, compositions, arrangements, production) with a shifting ensemble including Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Gary Campbell and Gerald Cleaver, plus orchestral and choral samples. Recorded 2004-2005 in Clavesana, Italy. CD, ECM…
Terje Rypdal, The Hilliard Ensemble, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Dennis Russell Davies, Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra, Sebastian Perłowski
Melodic WarriorTwo live orchestral works by Terje Rypdal (electric guitar): Melodic Warrior with The Hilliard Ensemble and Bruckner Orchester Linz under Dennis Russell Davies (Linz, 2003), and op. 97 with the Wrocław Philharmonic (2009). CD, ECM 2006.
Starflowers
Sinikka Langeland (vocals, kantele) sets poems by Hans Børli with Arve Henriksen (trumpet), Trygve Seim (saxophones), Anders Jormin (double bass) and Markku Ounaskari (percussion). Recorded May 2006 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1996, 2007.
Tuki
Tuki (ECM 1971, 2006) is the first ECM album as leader by Gambian percussionist Miki N'Doye (kalimba, drums, vocals), with Jon Balke, Per Jørgensen and Helge Norbakken, recorded 2003-2005 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.