Fourth album is a live-album. Since
2005 Swiss, Nik Bärtsch and his band Ronin, has been connected to ECM. As a contemporary
band rooted in time most people can count, Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin is a unique name
at ECM.
It’s a double album with recordings
from Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Great Britain and Japan. It’s also a
goodbye to the original bass player, Björn Meyer. The significant bass with its
constant groove up front in the sound has been a characteristic for the group.
Very appropriate the replacement,
Thomy Jordi, is playing his bass on the very last number of the album. And it
is good to hear: the group won’t run out of amazing bass grooves.
Live is presenting a number of compositions
from earlier albums and it is obvious that the group has always had a vivid
expression.
In the liner notes of the booklet,
Nik Bärtsch writes, that a concert is a meditative and explosive kind of
collaboration. Both for the musicians and in the meeting between musicians and
audience, whom you don’t really hear by the way; the audience. And it’s a
shame, since the music isn’t a fragile-solo-piano-concert by Keith Jarret,
which would fall apart by a single cough.
I could use a little more noise, otherwise it
all gets too insipid.
Review: Niels Overgård. Translation: DSI Swinging Europe.
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