Breathe Into The Forest, Into The Bird, Into The Song
*Limited Edition Handmade CDR* "One day i invited my friends home to be the echo of a forest. We sat in a circle, we lighted on some candles and we listened to the wood of a shruti box. Through healing ourselves we healed the forest, the bird and the…
Pale Bloom
CD Edition. Pale Bloom finds Sarah Davachi coming full circle. After abandoning the piano studies of her youth for a series of albums utilizing everything from pipe and reed organs to analog synthesizers, this prolific Los Angeles-based composer retu…
To The Evening Child
Solo album by Stephan Micus, recorded January-February 1992 at MCM Studios, in seven parts for steel drum, voice, dilruba, suling, kortholt, nay and sinding, all played and sung by Micus. First released by ECM in 1992 as ECM 1486.
To The Rising Moon
Stephan Micus' 26th solo album for ECM, centred on the Colombian tiple with dilruba, sattar, bowed sapeh, tableharp, nay, Cambodian flute, chord zither and voice, all played and sung by Micus. Recorded 2021-2023 at MCM Studios.
Thunder
Stephan Micus's 25th solo album for ECM: nine pieces for thunder gods of different cultures, built around the Tibetan dung chen trumpet. Micus plays all instruments and voices, recorded 2020-2022 at MCM Studios.
Winter's End
Stephan Micus's 24th solo album for ECM (2021), recorded alone at MCM Studios between 2018 and 2020, with the Mozambican chikulo, tongue drum, kalimba, sinding, nay, nohkan, suling, sattar, charango, 12-string guitar and voice.
Inland Sea
Solo album by Stephan Micus, his 22nd for ECM: ten original pieces led by the Swedish nyckelharpa, with balanzikom, shakuhachi, genbri, chord and bass zithers, steel-string guitar and voice, all played by Micus and recorded 2014-2016 at MCM Studios.
Nomad Songs
Eleven pieces composed and performed alone by Stephan Micus on nine instruments, including the Moroccan genbri and the San ndingo, both new to his work, plus voice. Recorded 2012-2014 at MCM Studios; his 21st album for ECM.
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.
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…
On the Wing
Ten-part instrumental suite by Stephan Micus, who plays every part through multitracking: sattar, mudbesh, hné, nay, suling, sho, shakuhachi, mandobahar, sitar, guitars, hang and gongs. Recorded 2003-2006 at MCM Studios. ECM 1987, 2006.
Towards The Wind
Stephan Micus's first album with the Armenian duduk, an eight-part suite for duduk, kalimba, shakuhachi, dondon, sattar, guitars and voice, all played by Micus. Recorded 1999-2001 at MCM Studios, released by ECM in 2002.
Desert Poems
Fifteenth solo album by Stephan Micus, who plays every instrument and sings every voice, among them doussn' gouni, kalimba, dondon, sarangi, dilruba, sattar, nay and shakuhachi. Recorded 1997-2000 at MCM Studios, Mallorca; released by ECM in 2001. CD…
Athos
Stephan Micus's cycle of three days and three nights inspired by a stay on Mount Athos, with zither, sattar, shakuhachi, suling, ney, flowerpots and his own multi-tracked voice, recorded at MCM Studios between November 1993 and February 1994.