Cat No:
RON014
Release Date: 22 June 2015
Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0610098163008
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
'Echo' is the debut album by the Swiss band Ikarus, formed around composer and drummer Ramón Oliveras. The album is released on ECM Recording artist Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm imprint and was co-produced by Nik and Ramón.
Together with the vocalists Stefanie Suhner and Andreas Lareida, pianist Lucca Fries and bassist Mo Meyer, Oliveras realises his elaborate compositions with skilful consistency.
The band, which considers itself a musical organism, involves the wordless vocals as additional instruments and tone colours. Asked about his musical influences, Oliveras responds: "Bartók meets James Blake, Arvo Pärt meets Eivind Aarset."
The result is music that is settled between silence and storm and gains its momentum and energy from nimble minimal-grooves, psychedelic soundscapes and jazz-related interlocking rhythms. Both rugged riffs and delicately interwoven melodies are part of 'Echo's musical dramaturgies - the songs frequently oscillate between these opposing elements: as organic transformations or sudden rifts.
Personnel: Ramón Oliveras (drums), Stefanie Suhner, Andreas Lareida (vocals), Lucca Fries (piano) and Mo Meyer (bass)
"Evocative! A promising debut." - All About Jazz -
Tracklisting
- 1. Sanctuary
- 2. Ligulin
- 3. Locrya
- 4. Loss Of Fire
- 5. Hotaru
- 6. City Of Glass
- 7. Sub Zero
- 8. Sakura
- 9. Revilio
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