聶．巴奇浪人樂隊 Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Holon (CD) 【ECM】

The second ECM album by Swiss composer-pianist Nik Bärtsch and his band Ronin reaps the benefits of the two years of roadwork undertaken since the recording of “Stoa”“We’ve simply played a lot more,” Bärtsch emphasises: “The development of the band as an organism is a very important force for the music. It is through playing that the pieces I write grow and bloom.” The distinguishing characteristics of the music are consistent: the modular constructions, the polymetric pulses, the complex interlocking patterns and repetitive motifs. Bärtsch speaks of the band’s way of working as a “spiral continuum” rather than the newness-at-all-costs priorities of the Western avant-garde. Yet it is clear enough that a conceptual leap has been made in Ronin’s music, for the band’s sound is simultaneously looser and indissoluble, without any relinquishing of the grip upon the groove.

〈Recorded July 2007〉

Nik Bärtsch - piano
Sha - bass clarinets, alto saxophon
Björn Meyer - bass
Kaspar Rast - drums
Andi Pupato - percussion

【曲目】
01. Modul 42
02. Modul 41_17
03. Modul 39_8
04. Modul 46
05. Modul 45
06. Modul 44

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編號：ECM2049
條碼：0602517486720