Thomas Strønen Time Is A Blind Guide

Thomas Strønen - Time Is A Blind Guide (2015)  Music

Posted by gribovar at Sept. 8, 2023
Thomas Strønen - Time Is A Blind Guide (2015)

Thomas Stronen - Time Is A Blind Guide (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 241 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 124 MB | Covers - 17 MB
Genre: Contemporary Jazz | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: ECM Records (ECM 2467)

Time Is A Blind Guide is both the title of Thomas Strønen’s album and the name of his new Norwegian-British ensemble. In contrast to Food and its electronic soundscapes, TIABG is an all-acoustic group which plays what its drummer-leader-composer calls “melodic music with a twist.” Its melodies unfurl sinuously over shifting rhythmic patterns. The band was built to include a number of overlapping musical sub-groups. “There is a kind of enhanced piano trio at the centre of Time Is A Blind Guide,” says Strønen. “And there is a string group with violin and cello and bass - over the years I’ve written lots of music for strings - as well as a drum ensemble with me and Siv Øyunn Kjenstad and Steinar Mossige…” The two percussionists often assert strong and solid grooves, allowing Strønen to play freely on top of the rhythms and to interact dynamically with the outstanding young English pianist Kit Downes, who makes his ECM debut here…
Thomas Stronen - Time Is A Blind Guide (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Thomas Strønen - Time Is A Blind Guide (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 52:55 minutes | 1013 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

"Time Is A Blind Guide" is both the title of this debut album and the name of Thomas Strønen’s Norwegian-British ensemble. In contrast to Strønen’s previous electronic work, TIABG is an all-acoustic group playing what its drummer-leader-composer calls "melodic music with a twist". Its melodies unfurl sinuously over shifting rhythmic patterns, incorporating a number of overlapping musical subgroups. On several songs Strønen is joined by two guest percussionists, who assert strong and solid grooves, allowing Strønen to play freely on top of the rhythms and to interact dynamically with outstanding young English pianist Kit Downes.

Thomas Stronen & Time Is a Blind Guide - Lucus (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 18, 2018
Thomas Stronen & Time Is a Blind Guide - Lucus (2018)

Thomas Stronen & Time Is a Blind Guide - Lucus (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) | 00:52:23 | Artwork included | 229 Mb
Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ECM Records, Deutsche Grammophon

Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative connections between Japan and Norway in her improvising, a tendency Strønen seems to be encouraging with his space-conscious writing for the ensemble, letting in more light. As on the group’s eponymously-titled and critically-lauded debut album there are excellent contributions from the string players – the quintet effectively contains both a string trio and a piano trio – and Manfred Eicher’s production brings out all the fine detail in the grain of the collective sound and the halo of its overtones, captured in the famously-responsive acoustic of Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in March 2017.
Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide - Lucus (2018) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide - Lucus (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 52:18 minutes | 958 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka.
Thomas Stronen & Time Is A Blind Guide - Lucus (2018) {ECM 2576 Official Digital Download}

Thomas Strønen & Time Is A Blind Guide - Lucus (2018) {ECM 2576 Official Digital Download}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44kHz - Official Digital Download -> 256 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 123 Mb
Full Artwork (jpg+pdf) -> 6 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2018 ECM Records | ECM 2576
Jazz / Modern Creative / Post Bop / Drums

Norwegian drummer/composer Thomas Strønen presents a revised edition of his acoustic collective Time Is A Blind Guide, now trimmed to quintet size, and with a new pianist in Wakayama-born Ayumi Tanaka. Tanaka has spoken of seeking associative connections between Japan and Norway in her improvising, a tendency Strønen seems to be encouraging with his space-conscious writing for the ensemble, letting in more light. As on the group’s eponymously-titled and critically-lauded debut album there are excellent contributions from the string players – the quintet effectively contains both a string trio and a piano trio – and Manfred Eicher’s production brings out all the fine detail in the grain of the collective sound and the halo of its overtones, captured in the famously-responsive acoustic of Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in March 2017.

Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea - Bayou (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at April 8, 2021
Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea - Bayou (2021)

Thomas Strønen, Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea - Bayou (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 139 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 97 Mb | 00:42:01
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: ECM Records

A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea. The group first came together at Oslo’s Royal Academy of Music, where for two years the players would meet each week for exploratory music making. Strønen: “We always played freely- drifting between elements of contemporary classical music, folk music, jazz, whatever we were inspired by. Sometimes the music was very quiet and minimalistic: playing together generated some special experiences.” The spontaneous spirit of the music is reflected in the trio’s debut recording, which was made at the Lugano radio studio and produced by Manfred Eicher. With the exception of the title piece, based on a traditional Norwegian tune, the music on Bayou was collectively created in the moment.
Humcrush - Enter Humcrush (feat. Thomas Strønen & Ståle Storløkken) (2017)

Humcrush - Enter Humcrush (feat. Thomas Strønen & Ståle Storløkken) (2017)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 225 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 Mb | 00:39:58
Contemporary Jazz, Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Shhpuma

So, there’s five now. The latest one is Humcrush with Sidsel Endresen – a partnership with one of Norway’s most legendary singers and improvisers, showing specific coordinates because of that circumstance. And if “Ha!” was different from the previous albums, here is the new “Humcrush” introducing some profound changes in relation to “Humcrush”, “Hornswoggle” and “Rest at World’s End”. Between the last refered one and the record now in distribution are six years of interval: that’s too much time, time enough for a transformation of the musical concepts applied by Stale Storløkken and Thomas Strønen to their common project, thanks to the experiences they had with all the other bands with which they’re involved: Supersilent with or without John Paul Jones, Food, Elephant9, Time is a blind guide, Meadow or Motorpsycho.
Thomas Strønen & Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea - Bayou (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Thomas Strønen & Ayumi Tanaka & Marthe Lea - Bayou (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 41:57 minutes | 715 MB
Jazz | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

A fresh and open music, delicate and space-conscious, is shaped as drummer Thomas Strønen and Ayumi Tanaka, previously heard in the ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide on Lucus, resurface in a new trio with clarinettist/singer/percussionist Marthe Lea.

Maciej Obara Quartet - Unloved (2017)  Music

Posted by Pisulik at Nov. 13, 2017
Maciej Obara Quartet - Unloved (2017)

Maciej Obara Quartet - Unloved (2017)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) - 232 MB | Cover | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 110 MB | 00:48:08
Jazz | Label: ECM

Polish alto saxophone player Maciej Obara makes a striking ECM debut with Unloved, an album whose expressive range embraces tender lyricism and impassioned, fiery, powerful playing. With the exception of the title track - written by Krzysztof Komeda (spiritus rector of modern jazz in Poland) for Janusz Nasfeter's film of the same name - themes are by the highly inventive alto saxophonist. Obara emphasizes however that his themes "serve as outlines, from which our sound is set free. My friends are amazing improvisers. I love their ability to move around freely in open spaces, and the way they shape and give colour to what I have in mind.

Kit Downes - Obsidian (2018)  Music

Posted by pyatak at Jan. 18, 2018
Kit Downes - Obsidian (2018)

Kit Downes - Obsidian (2018)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 189 MB | Cover | 45:38 minutes | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 108 MB
Jazz | Label: ECM

Kit Downes's previous ECM appearance was as pianist on the debut recording of Thomas Strønen's Time Is A Blind Guide in 2015 and he's critically-regarded as one of the UK's outstanding young jazz talents.