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    ECM

    But yeah, some genuinely great albums are on ECM, which kind of law-of-averages out when you assemble that many great artists and fund them properly: Dave Holland Quartet (feat. Braxton) ‘Conference of the Birds’… Julian Priester ‘Love, Love’… several albums by Tomasz Stanko (with Tony Oxley on...
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    ECM

    The best thing about ECM is that it’s just records, and they can be discovered completely out of context and any listener can reinvent what they meaning is… Its endless mining of reverb-drenched melancholy can link up aesthetically with Drill, Black Metal… But the label also became a posh...
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    ECM

    Ultimately, if you consider ECM as a single, massive project-object by one artist, Eicher himself, then it can’t but remain an extraordinary achievement. There are lots of true gems, but so much of it seems to be a Keith Jarrett aesthetic rehash on quite a cynical level – the last 15-20 years...
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    ECM

    This was a nice ECM period, and this is a great Frisell album… Back then Garbarek seemed to be forging a kind of post-Ayler thing, but he clearly didn’t have the substance to sustain it or progress. Or just got complacent.
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