Alex Harding, Lucian Ban – Blutopia (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 54:27 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The relationship between Alex Harding and Lucian Ban has been long and fruitful. Their combination of elements of improvisational music have helped the pair develop a unique musical language that transcends the expectations of the jazz genre. Their new recording, Blutopia, highlights their attuned rapport while allowing their music to unfold with their own singular ensemble, propelled by the tuba stylings of the great Bob Stewart.
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Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri – Oedipe Redux (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Nearly ninety years after its opening in Paris at Opera Garnier, Transylvanian expat pianist Lucian Ban and American violist Mat Maneri present a radical re-imagination of George Enescu’s famous Oedipe opera. For decades, the opera was seen as too difficult to perform, the score and four long acts demanded much from the musicians, but Enescu’s Oedipe has finally begun to receive the attention that it rightly deserves and to be recognized as one of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire.
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Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri – Oedipe Redux (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:33 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sunnyside
Nearly ninety years after its opening in Paris at Opera Garnier, Transylvanian expat pianist Lucian Ban and American violist Mat Maneri present a radical re-imagination of George Enescu’s famous Oedipe opera. For decades, the opera was seen as too difficult to perform, the score and four long acts demanded much from the musicians, but Enescu’s Oedipe has finally begun to receive the attention that it rightly deserves and to be recognized as one of the greatest works in the operatic repertoire.
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Lucian Ban, John Surman and Mat Maneri – Transylvanian Folk Songs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:04:05 minutes | 625 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Artists’ greatest inspiration often comes from sources that once surrounded them in their native communities. Pianist Lucian Ban, violist Mat Maneri and woodwind master John Surman come from different backgrounds but are connected by their focus on improvised music along with their appreciation of folkloric and classical styles.
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Lucian Ban & Mat Maneri – Transylvanian Concert (2013/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 55:44 minutes | 461 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously organised performance in Targu Mures, in the region where Lucian Ban grew up. A large, highly-attentive audience follows Ban and Maneri through a programme of their self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, plus Mat’s chilling solo performance of the spiritual “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”, the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. Rain, drumming upon the stained-glass windows of the Culture Palace, offers occasional melancholy commentary. In all, a unique and compelling set.
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Alex Harding & Lucian Ban – Dark Blue (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:30 minutes | 808 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Even though musicians may come from divergent places, it is amazing to find that many have the same proclivities when it comes to musical tendencies and taste. The relationship between Detroit born baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist Alex Harding and Romanian pianist Lucian Ban is one example, in this case two musician from such different places, coalesce around the power of the blues. Their new recording, Dark Blue, is a testament to their musical and brotherly bond.
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Lucian Ban, Mat Maneri – Transylvanian Concert (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time – 00:55:41 minutes | 466 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Recorded: June 5, 2011 by Tibor Kacso at Culture Palace, Targu Mures, Transylvania
“Transylvanian Concert” marks an ECM debut for Romanian pianist-composer Lucian Ban and a welcome return for US violist Mat Maneri, in his 9th appearance for the label. The album documents a spontaneously organised performance in Targu Mures, in the region where Lucian Ban grew up. A large, highly-attentive audience follows Ban and Maneri through a programme of their self-penned ballads, blues, hymns and abstract improvisations, plus Mat’s chilling solo performance of the spiritual “Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen”, the whole informed by the twin traditions of jazz and European chamber music. Rain, drumming upon the stained-glass windows of the Culture Palace, offers occasional melancholy commentary. In all, a unique and compelling set.
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