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Holon by: Nik Bärtsch's Ronin List Price: $17.98 CD-Charts Price: $13.99 You Save: $3.99 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0602517486720 Label: Ecm Records Manufacturer: Ecm Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Ecm Records Release Date: February 05, 2008 Studio: Ecm Records Sales Rank: 4350 MPN: 001052602 Disc 1: Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
Editorial Review: Album Description: * Eagerly-anticipated second ECM album from Swiss pianist-composer Nik Bärtsch and his committed young `Zen-funk' or `ritual groove" band Ronin, whose label debut Stoa received rave reviews all around the world. * Bärtsch's Ronin is recognized as one of the most exciting discoveries of recent years. * Holon follows up directions set in motion by Stoa and takes them further, thanks both to the band's growing confidence and also to ECM's glowing sound-mix. * Nik Bärtsch's music occupies a niche all its own, equidistant from contemporary composition, funk/soul grooves and scattered world musics. In some ways further removed from jazz than the other idioms it has nonetheless been warmly embraced by the jazz community, its grooves and interlocking rhythms now frequently heard also at the jazz festivals - as well as in new music spaces and rock clubs. * CD booklet includes artist photos and a liner note by Nik Bärtsch in German and English Customer Reviews
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 Rating: - FULL OF ENERGY QUALITY AND WARMTHMinimalistic modern jazz approach blended with funk, avan-garde and fusion elements in a very completed versatile and harmonic way.Great interplay,excellent bass lines ,wonderful and spacious piano playing from Nick Bartch and his quintet with energy rythm and warmth.EXCELLENT. Rating: - The shape of jazz to come?*THE CONTEXT...* In the world of jazz 'avant-garde' there are two main currents: on one hand, you have the musicians who are simply content with re-enacting the canon (Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, sometimes to amazing results it must be said) while on the other there are those who prefer to push the envelope by going, if ever slightly, beyond the boundaries of the genre. Mostly this is done by combining jazz with 'other things', i.e., influences coming from different musical fields. Hence, a lot of experimentation mixing jazz with electronics, hip-hop, minimalism, indie rock, etc. While this 'mixing' concept is in no way new (didn't bossa nova stem from the jazz+latin music formula?), it can often produce ... Read More: Rating: - Zen Funk Indeed!This musical project in my opinion would be Europe's answer to Medeski, Martin, Wood. This review is based purely on first impressions. It's hard to describe this music, and doing such never quite does justice to it. Suffice it to say that I heard this record for the first time, following Mingus' "The Black Saint and Sinner Lady" and it held its own. I don't know if I can exalt this album's glory much further than that. Till this day, I was completely unfamiliar with Nik Bartsch music. I'm putting this record right up there in between Keith Jarrett's "Changeless" and MMW's "Electric Tonic" - it bridges the gap perfectly. Rating: - Thoroughly engagingNot having listened to Stoa, I really had little idea what to expect here. I looked at the somewhat strange titles & thought maybe I was in for a John Cage-esque experience & although certainly there are elements of Cage, there's much more of Steve Reich, Christian Wallumrod & even Esbjorn Svensson here, meaning that whilst every piece is structured such that you can often predict when an established, largely minimalist pattern is going to change, you're often surprised as to exactly how this happens & where the change leads. In virtually all cases, the changes are exciting, engaging & never one-off (ie. each piece changes instrumentation, mood & dynamic several times &, apart from three brief blazing saxophone interludes ... Read More: Rating: - More Swiss TimingIf you know and love Nik Bartsch's Stoa, you're sure to feel the same about Holon, which is, in effect, Stoa 2. Outside of the fact that Bartsch plays only acoustic piano on Holon; the reedman known as Sha has added alto sax to his clarinets; and there's a more pronounced Middle Easternish feel to some of the writing, Holon picks up exactly where Stoa's jazz/minimalism left off. Bartsch has called this style Zen funk, but there's a lot more Zen than funk in the mixture. This isn't funk in the chicken 'n' grits manner--it's more like wiener schnitzel und sauerkraut. The Ronin band might be likened to a weird blend of Kraftwerk and Steve Reich (I'd say the James Brown comparison that's sometimes made is way too far a stretch), running like humanized ... Read More: |
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