Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Llyria - 180g 2LP

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Nik Bartsch's Ronin - Llyria - 180g 2LP
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ECM - 274 7597 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - Pressed in Germany
 
180g audiophile vinyl release of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin's 2010 album 'Llria'.
 
'Llyria' is their third album for ECM and follows on from 'Stoa' and 'Holon', which helped establish the exciting young Swiss band on the international scene. Leader and pianist Nik Bärtsch's "modular" pieces still define the context of the group's music but the committed input of the individual Ronin members has lifted the work to the next level, blurring the distinctions between composition, improvisation and interpretation.
 
Llyrìa also demonstrates the pianist's increasing compositional skill in narrative form; each Modul possessing its own, but when experienced as a whole, creating a captivating hour-long suite that seems almost to flow by in an instant, as if time itself has been suspended, despite a seemingly infinite number of memorable melodic fragments, rhythmic devices and harmonic movements both vertical and horizontal, all interlocking in a relentlessly shifting landscape.
 
It's hard to think of a group and a concept that just keeps getting better with each successive record, but on Llyrìa, Bärtsch—and the now absolutely synchronous Ronin—continues to find new and consistently intriguing ways to expand the purview of a concept which, clearly mistakenly, seemed destined for a finite shelf life.
 
Personnel:
Nik Bärtsch (piano)
Sha (bass clarinet, alto saxophone)
Björn Meyer (bass)
Kaspar Rast (drums)
Andi Pupato (percussion)
 
Track Listings
1. Modul 48
2. Modul 52
3. Modul 55
4. Modul 47
5. Modul 53
6. Modul 51
7. Modul 49_44
 

 

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