Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Edward Vesala – Triptykon (1973/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:55 minutes | 828 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Triptykon is the fourth album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, his third release on the ECM label, and is performed by Garbarek with Arild Andersen and Edward Vesala.
Jazz historian and Jazzwise journalist, Stuart Nicholson, identified Triptykon to be one of Garbarek’s top five best recordings, noting that it presented a ‘radical twist’ in Garbarek’s musical style. This ‘twist’ was also highlighted in an Allmusic review by Brian Olewnick, who awarded the album 4½ stars and stating, “Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek took several intriguing stylistic turns early in his career, none more extreme than that shown on Triptykon… an expressionist trio drawing on both free improvisation and Scandinavian folk tunes, roaring, stumbling, and reeling, evoking an aural equivalent of Edvard Munch. Garbarek’s work on all his reeds is assured and imaginative, even as the context is often dark and bleak… Highly recommended”.
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Edward Vesala – Nan Madol (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:28 minutes | 936 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Finnish percussionist Edward Vesala’s debut on ECM Records may also be his most fiery outing for the label. On the album, Vesala assembles a particularly lively big band of Finns, who interpret his music with blazing colours. In 1976, when the album was released, Melody Maker suggested that “John Coltrane might have made music like this had he been born a European. ‘Nad Madol’ is an orgy of sound, no other description can suffice and ‘Areous Vlor Ta’ remains one of the most extraordinary and moving big band scorings…. Put it next to ‘Ascension’ in your collection.”
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Tomasz Stańko, Tomasz Szukalski, Dave Holland, Edward Vesala – Balladyna (1976/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:11 minutes | 891 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM
Stanko’s first for ECM, and a splendid introduction to the “predatory lyricism” that is the Polish trumpeter’s stylistic trademark.
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