ANDERS JORMIN - Xieyi (2001) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Jormin, hailed by Down Beat as 'a treasure ­ everything a bassist should be', has excelled on numerous ECM recordings with Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, Don Cherry, and Tomasz Stanko. Solo pieces and compositions for brass quartet feature on'Xieyi', his first album under his own name for the label. The songs for bass mine the widest possible sources: Scandinavian religious hymns by Sibelius and Söderblom, Ornette Coleman's 'War Orphans','Gracias a la vida' by Chile's Violetta Parra, tone poems by Swedish composers, a children's song, and improvisations by Anders. ecm
Tracklist :
1    Choral 1'45
(Anders Jormin)
2    Giv mig ej glans - Hymn 433 6'03
(Jean Sibelius)
3    I denna ljuva sommartid - Hymn 200 4'51
(Nathan Söderblom)
4    Gracias a la vida 2'57
(Violeta Parra)
5    Idas sommarvisa 6'04
(Georg Riedel)
6    Xieyi 0'52
(Anders Jormin)
7    Decimas 5'34
(Anders Jormin)
8    Och kanske är det natt 4'10
(Stefan Forssén)
9    Sul tasto 1'14
(Anders Jormin)
10    Tenk 8'43
(Anders Jormin)
11    Sonett till Cornelis 5'28
(Stefan Forssén)
12    Romance-distance 1'08
(Anders Jormin)
13    Scents 3'02
(Anders Jormin)
14    Fragancia 4'10
(Evert Taube)
15    Q 2'12
(Anders Jormin)
16    War Orphans 7'51
(Ornette Coleman)
17    Choral 1'47
(Anders Jormin)
Credits :
Anders Jormin   Double-Bass
Robin Rydqvist   Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Krister Petersson   French Horn
Lars-Göran Carlsson   Trombone
Niclas Rydh   Bass Trombone