Watch the official video for “The Source”, a track from the new album Windflower by the trio of Ayumi Tanka, Thomas Morgan and Thomas Strønen below. Get the album on CD […]
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Sparse, subtle and determined as much by silence as by sound, hers is a music created using deft, fleeting strokes” wrote the BBC Music Magazine of Ayumi Tanaka’s Subaqueous Silence. And Windflower reconfirms the potency of a musical approach in which intensity is conveyed through restraint and focus. This time, however, the music is for the most part collectively created, with all three players shaping the pieces in the moment.
Windflower
For Winter Songs, Steve Swallow’s first true leader date in over a decade (Into The Woodworks, 2013) and his first recorded appearance on the label after John Scofield’s Swallow Tales and Carla Bley’s Life Goes On in 2020, the master-bassist has gathered together a group of close confidants to accompany him through some of the most intrinsic and melodically immediate music he has ever written. Swallow explains, “before Winter Songs I had given music whatever I could, but as I made this album the tables turned: it gave me what I needed. Music is elemental, like the air we breathe…”
Feebles, Fables and Ferns
The independent record label ECM – Edition of Contemporary Music – was founded by producer Manfred Eicher in 1969, and to date has issued more than 1800 albums spanning many idioms.
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