ECM Touchstone - Reissues

[Strung Up]

Haven't been able to find some of these for a while. Couple big faves in here, @ a good price. (Wish they'd get to Towner's 'Batik'.)

http://www.jazzloft.com/c-24-touchstone.aspx

[splatt]

Haven't been able to find some of these for a while. Couple big faves in here, @ a good price. (Wish they'd get to Towner's 'Batik'.)

http://www.jazzloft.com/c-24-touchstone.aspx
awesome.
there's even the possibility that
eicher might re-release
the first "everyman band" disc, &
the first "lask" disc, as well.
dt / spltrcl

[mike walker]

Wow. Classics. I have Batik. Beautiful.
Which album is 'Cafe on? Egberto Gismonti.

Mike

[Strung Up]

awesome.
there's even the possibility that
eicher might re-release
the first "everyman band" disc, &
the first "lask" disc, as well.
dt / spltrcl

Don't tease me, bro!

Wore the grooves off the first one.

[Dajbro]

Good stuff. That's some great music right there. Thanks for posting the info.

David

[Rumblefish]

Check out the "Second Sight" line up.Frisell and Scofield and Peter Erskine and Marc Johnson.Can't be too bad.

Solstice by Ralph Towner is some of the most beautiful music ever recorded.

Start a petition to get Everyman Band reissued.That's one badass album.Some of my favorite stuff from Mr. Splatt is splattered all over that bawdy album.

[splatt]

Solstice by Ralph Towner is some of the most beautiful music ever recorded.
indeed.


Start a petition to get Everyman Band reissued.That's one badass album.Some of my favorite stuff from Mr. Splatt is splattered all over that bawdy album.
thanks, man.
i think the record is kinda funny,
from what i remember of it.....
ha!
anyways, i think there's a good chance that disc
will be released somewhat simultaneously
with the release of my next
ECM (solo-) recording.
dt / spltrcl

[Carltone]

Haven't been able to find some of these for a while. Couple big faves in here, @ a good price. (Wish they'd get to Towner's 'Batik'.)

http://www.jazzloft.com/c-24-touchstone.aspx
I picked up the reissued "Batik" by Towner last week... sounds great!

[Rumblefish]

indeed.



thanks, man.
i think the record is kinda funny,
from what i remember of it.....
ha!
anyways, i think there's a good chance that disc
will be released somewhat simultaneously
with the release of my next
ECM (solo-) recording.
dt / spltrcl

Exactly.Love your wacked out blues.And then some other tunes that just have a great sense of humor and sound beautiful at the same time.

[diego]

Cool. But for some reason those three Abercrombie Quartet albums remain buried. Did Beirach insult Manfred Eicher or something? I was lucky enough to find an import of "Batik" on CD... must have been an Euro pressing that found its way over?

[DaveinLondon]

If you're in the US, Amazon.com has a 70 minute ECM Touchstone sampler to download for free: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GPVCSM/ref=s9alfla_c4_at3-rfc_g1-3237_p?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-4&pf_rd_r=06TE8QG5HVVB2NQSY5X9&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=455327001&pf_rd_i=507846

[KRosser]

Cool. But for some reason those three Abercrombie Quartet albums remain buried.

I know! What up wit dat?!?!

ECM also never issued the Abercrombie/Towner record "Five Years Later" on CD, which was a huge influence on me.

I was lucky enough to find an import of "Batik" on CD... must have been an Euro pressing that found its way over?

My copy of "Batik" was a Euro import...I don't think it was ever issued here.

It's funny - many of these 70's/80's ECM records will give me warm fuzzy high school/college nostalgia flashbacks way more than any iconic classic rock album you could name.

[johnzias]

Solstice and Sound and Shadows are two of my favorite releases. Towner, Garbarek, Christensen, and Weber made a truly amazing band!

[KRosser]

Check out the "Second Sight" line up.Frisell and Scofield and Peter Erskine and Marc Johnson.Can't be too bad.

The follow-up to "Bass Desires"...I loved both...


Solstice by Ralph Towner is some of the most beautiful music ever recorded.


I think my fave RT was always probably "Solo Concert", but hey - with a catalog like his why quibble?

Start a petition to get Everyman Band reissued.That's one badass album.Some of my favorite stuff from Mr. Splatt is splattered all over that bawdy album.

For me, too...

[Carltone]

I picked up Abercrombie's "Animato" last weekend... gooood stuff!
Love these re-issues!!!

[LouRossi]

I remember finding EMB's Without Warning at the Jazz Mole shop in London. Never could find a CD of it in the states...

[ecm1117]

Strung Up - Towner's Batik is also available as a Touchstone title. Good thing too, since it was hard to get at a reasonable price, at least in the States.

There's some really amazing albums in this collection! Gnu High, Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette, Solstice, New Chautauqua etc. Glad to see ECM is doing this as it might get some new listeners into this music.

I'm still unsure as to why Abercrombie's Animato got selected while his album Characters didn't, but that's ok.

As far as the Towner/Abercrombie duo Five Years Later, Steve Lake (who's closely involved with the label) says it's been on the shortlist of albums to be issued on CD for a while. I hope it gets released soon. I do like their first effort Sargasso Sea, but not nearly as much as Five Years Later.

[johnzias]

Gnu High is an all timer! Heyoke!

[stratotonedude]

I have Everyman Band on vinyl.

[kingsleyd]

I know! What up wit dat?!?!

I'm very impatiently waiting for a reissue of those Abercrombie Quartet records on CD.

ECM also never issued the Abercrombie/Towner record "Five Years Later" on CD, which was a huge influence on me.

Me too; I totally borrowed their "thing" for the second piece on my CD. Hey Ken, did you see them when they played at the Paradise in 1980 or so?

My copy of "Batik" was a Euro import...I don't think it was ever issued here.

I still have most of these on vinyl, so at least when I'm at my NH house I can listen to 'em. But would love to have all of this in the iPod...

It's funny - many of these 70's/80's ECM records will give me warm fuzzy high school/college nostalgia flashbacks way more than any iconic classic rock album you could name.

Me too! Eric in the Evening, baby... :BEER

[KRosser]

Me too; I totally borrowed their "thing" for the second piece on my CD. Hey Ken, did you see them when they played at the Paradise in 1980 or so?


No, I saw them out here in 1980. I remember seeing them three times and I think that was the 'middle one'.

I do remember that 1980 show was one of those 'satori' concerts for me...

[KRosser]

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[Strung Up]

Thx much to the folks who corrected my shortsightedness re: 'Batik' (I was jazzed at finding some of this at Amoeba, and bummed at no-show in Townerville for this, AND confused my memory of the cover of 'Solstice - Sound & Shadows' w/ that of 'Batik'.

Gateway and Solstice were such ear-openers for me 3 decades ago, that they're as indelibly etched in my memory as any Clapton, Hendrix, ABB, etc. stuff that hit me upside my head even earlier.

Now, quit dawdling, and get to 'Everyman Band' and 'Of Mist and Melting' already.

Lastly . . . question that I'm not sure I really want answered . . . WTF DID Manfred use for 'verb(s) on all that stuff?

[splatt]

WTF DID Manfred use for 'verb(s) on all that stuff?
first, the lexicon 224.
then, the lexicon 480L.
dt / spltrcl

ps, y'all:
john abercrombie is in the studio w/his band,
this week, recording a new disc for ECM.

and, so --- separately -- is steve kuhn.

[johnzias]

Haden's Bass solo in The Survivor's Suite is a tear jerker!
Conference of the Birds is an all time favorite. Also Circle-Paris Concert.
Triptykon - Garbarek-Andersen-Vesala.
Tomasz Stanko - Balladyna are fine examples of free playing.

[ecm1117]

ps, y'all:
john abercrombie is in the studio w/his band,
this week, recording a new disc for ECM.

:AOK That's good news! Do you know if this is a quartet (w/ Baron, Feldman, and Johnson) recording?

Strung Up - Sound And Shadows is also available (found it at amazon). Distant Hills off that album is worth the price alone, IMO. Balance Beam and Along The Way are also standouts.

[johnzias]

Balance Beam. The interaction kills me on that track.

[dkaplowitz]

...Sound And Shadows is also available (found it at amazon). Distant Hills off that album is worth the price alone, IMO.
I am inclined to agree. Beautiful piece! I have a cassette of it somewhere. I keep waiting for the price of the CD to drop a little. But it's been years and it's still higher than my cheap ass wants to pay for it.

[KRosser]

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[Dave Klausner]

first, the lexicon 224.
then, the lexicon 480L.
dt / spltrcl


Ahh, yes. The "Fjords"!

[Strung Up]

[quote=splatt;5166113]first, the lexicon 224.
then, the lexicon 480L.
dt / spltrcl
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Thanks, Dave. I'm somewhat relieved that it wasn't some post-EMT plate made out of unobtainium, re-amped through, ohhh, I dunno, an NAT Smegmatronics audiophile tube amp.

Funny, but I went to a destined-for-PBS Christmas/'Holiday' show at Lincoln Center about ten years back that still airs occassionally. As I always do at shows, I walked the room as much as allowed, to check the sound in different places; strolled past the mixing board, and despite the show taking place in that huge space with some cleverly placed DISTANT stereo pairs, they still were going through a 480L.

Separately; thanks, Ken for both reminders of past favorites, and some unexplored stuff.