Jazz & Improvisation / Electronically Augmented Jazz

Duo album by guitarist Marc Sinan and clarinettist Oğuz Büyükberber (both also on electronics), built around 1916 field recordings of Armenian prisoners of war. Recorded October 2016 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo; produced by Manfred Eicher.

Third ECM album by pianist Craig Taborn, his first with a quartet: Chris Speed (tenor sax, clarinet), Chris Lightcap (double bass, bass guitar), Dave King (drums, electronic percussion). Recorded May 2016 at Avatar Studios, New York, produced by Manf…

Michel Benita's ECM leader debut with his group Ethics: Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto), Eivind Aarset (guitar, electronics) and Philippe Garcia (drums). Recorded April 2015 at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, produced by Manfre…

Eberhard Weber's companion album to Résumé: bass solos recorded live with the Jan Garbarek Group in thirteen European cities between 1990 and 2007, reworked with his keyboards and Ack van Rooyen's flugelhorn. Mixed November 2014 at La Buissonne; prod…

Fifth album by the Norwegian trio Jøkleba (Per Jørgensen, trumpet, voice; Jon Balke, piano, electronics; Audun Kleive, drums, electronics) and its first for ECM: free collective pieces recorded in May 2014 at Madstun and Rainbow Studio, Oslo.

Vijay Iyer's first ECM album as leader: the suite Mutations I-X for string quartet (Miranda Cuckson, Michi Wiancko, Kyle Armbrust, Kivie Cahn-Lipman), piano and electronics, framed by solo pieces. Recorded September 2013 at Avatar Studios, New York.

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 …

Live album by Arild Andersen (double bass, live electronics) with Tommy Smith (tenor saxophone) and Paolo Vinaccia (drums), recorded in September 2007 at Belleville, Oslo, and the Drammen Theatre. Produced by Manfred Eicher, released by ECM in 2008.

Eberhard Weber reworks twelve solo bass sequences recorded live with the Jan Garbarek Group between 1990 and 2007, adding keyboards, saxophone and selje flute by Garbarek and percussion by Michael DiPasqua. Mixed in 2011 at Studios La Buissonne.

Vossabrygg (ECM 1984, 2006) is Terje Rypdal's Bitches Brew tribute commissioned by Vossa Jazz, recorded live at the festival in Voss on 12 April 2003 with Palle Mikkelborg, Marius Rypdal, Jon Christensen, Paolo Vinaccia and others.

Second ECM album by Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, with Eivind Aarset (guitar, electronics), Audun Erlien (bass), DJ Strangefruit and Sidsel Endresen (voice). Recorded in Oslo studios in 1999, released May 2000. CD edition.

Solo album by Eberhard Weber on five-string electric upright bass, with overdubs and loops, nine of his own compositions. Recorded April-June 1993 in Munich, produced by Weber, released by ECM in October 1993 (ECM 1518).

Second and last album by Aparis: Markus Stockhausen (trumpets, flugelhorn), Simon Stockhausen (keyboards, soprano saxophone) and Jo Thönes (acoustic and electronic drums), recorded July 1992 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1496, released 1993.