NIK BÄRTSCH'S RONIN - Live (2012) 2CD | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Ronin around the world: a powerful and atmospheric concert recording with music captured in Germany, Austria, Holland, England, and Japan, a double-album which transmits the live impact of Nik Bärtsch’s band and its enveloping modular groove music of interlocking rhythms. It’s also a set that marks the end of an era and the transition into a new one. These are the last recordings of Ronin with Björn Meyer’s elegantly-leaping bass guitar as one of the lead voices, and Bärtsch views the album as partly a tribute to Meyer’s long tenure with the band. New bassist Thomy Jordi, meanwhile, makes an impressive entrance on “Modul 55”, but it’s most often the whole band, as a unified field of force, that commands the listener’s attention. ecm
Tracklist 1 :
1    Modul 41_17 - Lörrach 16'38
(Nik Bärtsch)
2    Modul 35 - Leipzig 11'31
(Nik Bärtsch)
3    Modul 42 - Wien 8'09
(Nik Bärtsch)
4    Modul 17 - Tokyo 5'58
(Nik Bärtsch)
5    Modul 22 - Amsterdam 14'45
(Nik Bärtsch)
Tracklist 2 :
1    Modul 45 - Mannheim 13'11
(Nik Bärtsch)
2    Modul 48 - Gateshead 8'37
(Nik Bärtsch)
3    Modul 47 - Mannheim 13'11
(Nik Bärtsch)
4    Modul 55 - Salzau 10'00
(Nik Bärtsch)
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin   
Nik Bärtsch   Piano, Fender Rhodes
Sha   Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Björn Meyer   Bass
Kaspar Rast   Drums
Andi Pupato   Percussion