Having said that, I hope that each will be a doorway into many others, and that your own knowledge of ECM’s significance will be proven not by what you read but by what you hear.įor worry of elevating one album over another, I will address them in reverse chronological order, bringing us back to the label’s roots to remind us of just how far it has come in its travels. ![]() I therefore offer my list of 10 watershed albums in the history of ECM Records as a personal assessment at best, neither as a prescriptive nor definitive survey of a catalog spanning some 1600 titles. ECM understands us from the inside and treats sound, aesthetic, and production as an unbreakable triangle of integrity.Īs is true of all creative expression, music is a highly subjective endeavor, bound as it is to individual experiences and associations, subject to transformations of time. Its place in recorded media is undeniable, not least of all because it carved out said place from scratch and from that foundation has intensified an asymptotic search for perfection ever since. Not one to be reckoned with, but one that reckons us. ![]() ![]() He continues to review new releases at Between Sound and Space. This guest article is written by Tyran Grillo who, back in May of 2015, achieved the goal of reviewing every album released on ECM Records and the ECM New Series imprints.
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