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Stephane Galland - LOBI (2012) {OutNote}
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© 2012 OutNote / Outhere Music | OTN019
Jazz / World Fusion / Ethno Jazz / Drums

Unconventional Belgian drummer Stéphane Galland surrounds himself with a dream team of musicians on this eclectic release! Lobi means both yesterday and tomorrow in Lingala, the language of the Congo, and Stéphane Galland uses this concept to drive this multifaceted repertoire, including original compositions and rearranged traditional pieces. Linking the past, present, and future, Lobi showcases the meeting of musicians from different countries and cultures, each bringing their own traditions to the performances. For this adventure, Galland (a member of the Aka Moon Trio), has surrounded himself with a talented, renowned group of musicians.

Ben Wendel - Frame (2012) {Sunnyside}
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© 2012 Sunnyside | SSC 1308
Jazz / Neo Bop / Modern Jazz

Among other things, recordings are frames of reference, an aural blueprint of a performer. The incredibly eclectic saxophonist/composer Ben Wendel's 2012 CD Frame will give a glimpse of his musical foundation composed of equal parts jazz, rock and ambient music. His unique combination of sounds and influences create compositions that are wholly unique listening experiences. The CD's program features eight new compositions and a duo arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma" featuring piano wunderkind Gerald Clayton. Wendel is joined on the album by an amazing ensemble, including pianists Tigran Hamasyan and Adam Benjamin, guitarist Nir Felder, bassist Ben Street and drummer Nate Wood.

Olivier Boge - The World Begins Today (2013) {Naive}
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© 2013 Naive / OB | NJ 623911
Jazz / Post Bop

This second album Olivier Bog diffuse soft light of life. This is an album of resurrection entered a dark period for the young composer and multi-instrumentalist. Bog talks about his two main instruments that dominates with equal success: the piano and the saxophone. You hear the song too but not the guitar that dominates beautiful way elsewhere. For The World Begins Today, the composer has surrounded himself with a team that he is faithful companions lives, brothers, participating fully in the musical intimacy for years. Tigran Hamasyan pianist, bassist Sam Minaie and drummer Jeff Ballard.

Dino Saluzzi & Anja Lechner - El Encuentro (2012) [DVD] {ECM Records}
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© 2012 ECM Records | ECM 5051
Jazz / World Music / Modern Jazz

“El Encuentro” follows bandoneonist Dino Saluzzi and cellist Anja Lechner to locations in Argentina, Germany, Armenia, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. “Your perception of music and your way of playing music change when you travel,” says Anja Lechner. The camera joins the journey and underlines the point, illuminating the processes of music making in very different contexts.

In the winter of 2012/13, the Haus der Kunst in Munich – one of Europe’s most important museums for contemporary art – hosted the exhibition ECM – A Cultural Archaeology. The goal of curators Okwui Enwezor and Markus Müller was to show the range of the label’s artistic endeavours in music, graphic art, and photography and its creative interchanges with film, theatre and literature. For this exhibition, Manfred Eicher and Steve Lake created this box-set accentuating directions in ECM's rich musical history. Many themes and streams are touched upon here including the range of composition in the New Series, music for and from films, imaginative historical reconstructions, trans-cultural music, ambient minimalism, and jazz and improvisation of many hues, in a collection with a playing time of more than seven hours.