Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday my 57th birthday with Llyrìa an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in France in 2010 and released on the ECM label.
Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM reviews:
"Sometimes philosophies are not written but sounded. Nik Bärtsch and his renegade Ronin quintet demonstrate an assemblage of both. In taking the art of jazz to such internal heights, the Swiss pianist and band mates Sha (reeds), Björn Meyer (bass), Kaspar Rast (drums), and Andi Pupato (percussion) autopsy the body of the score and turn it into a netted form of improvisation: with each element carefully measured and weighed, one cell osmoses into the next. Thus are Bärtsch’s numbered “Moduls” nurtured through understated rhythms and potent denouements. This third album for ECM establishes new precedent in Ronin’s ongoing development, working seedlings into a softer mush..."
https://ecmreviews.com/2013/02/13/llyria/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynf_0Xfo0js&list=OLAK5uy_ldKt1LInL0Fc7qAdZjyD3MNudoCjNYiQk
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