MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN — Sol Mestizo (1996) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

"Sometimes solemn, sometimes exhilarating variation of Latin jazz" - (FOYER) ACT
Tracklist :
1    Creation    3:58
2    Iluminacion    2:30
3    Lonconao    4:11
4    Reflexion    5:29
5    Canto Indio    1:32
6    Zampoña    6:05
7    Divinidad    2:32
8    Adentro    4:01
9    In Your Mind    3:36
10    Queca    4:55
11    Desolacion    1:26
12    Asfalto    5:13
13    La Conquista    6:26
14    Yemaye    4:30
15    Reconciliacion    2:21
16    Emanacion    2:54
17    Takirari    5:22
Credits :
Markus Stockhausen - Tp, Flhorn
Enrique Diaz - Voc, Bass
Philip Catherine - G
Chano Dominguez - P
Simon Stockhausen - Keyb, Sopransax
Jochen Schmidt - E-Bs
Felipe Mandingo - Perc
Thomas Alkier - Dr

JOACHIM KÜHN — Europeana : Jazzphony No. 1 (Michael Gibbs) (1995) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Europeana won the Annual German Record Critics' Award upon its initial CD release in 1995. ACT
Tracklist :
1    Castle In Heaven 4:16
French Horn [Solo] – Theo Wiemes
2    Black Is The Colour Of My Ture Love´s Hair 4:42
Oboe – Douglas Boyd
Tenor Horn – Django Bates
3    The Shepherd Of Breton 4:34
Accordion – Richard Galliano
Orchestra – Members Of The NDR-Bigband
4    The Ingrian Rune Song    2:19
5    The Groom´s Sister 3:41
Soprano Saxophone – Christof Lauer
6    Norwegian Psalm 4:48
Flugelhorn – Markus Stockhausen
Oboe [Solo] – Martin Stoll
7    Three Angels 4:20
Tenor Saxophone – Christof Lauer
Trombone – Albert Mangelsdorff
8    Heaven Has Created 3:56
Piccolo Trumpet – Markus Stockhausen
9    She Moved Through The Fair 5:55
Soprano Saxophone – Klaus Doldinger
10    Crebe De Chet    4:14
11    Midnight Sun    5:28
12    Londonderry Air 4:41
Violin [Solo] – Volker Worlitzsch
13    Otra Jazzpaña    5:35
Credits :
Bass, Soloist – Jean-François Jenny-Clark
Concertmaster – Volker Worlitzsch
Conductor, Arranged By – Michael Gibbs
Drums, Soloist – Jon Christensen
Orchestra – Radio Philharmoníe Hannover NDR
Painting – Gerhard Richter
Piano, Soloist – Joachim Kühn
Soloist – Albert Mangelsdorff, Christof Lauer, Django Bates, Douglas Boyd, Klaus Doldinger, Markus Stockhausen, Richard Galliano

JOACHIM KÜHN BIRTHDAY EDITION — Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark + Europeana (2014) 2CD | FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Joachim Kühn - Germany's jazz pianist of world renown. Reason enough to bring this back to life with previously unreleased concert recordings of the exceptional trio Kühn, Humair, Jenny-Clark from JazzFest Berlin. With the jazz symphony "Europeana" Kühn returned in a key role on one of the most important ACT recordings in 1994. Alongside Kühn, the crème de la crème of contemporary European improvised music came together here, including Albert Mangelsdorff, Django Bates, Klaus Doldinger and Richard Galliano.... ACT
Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark    
1    Pastor    8:52
2    Easy To Read    6:45
3    Heavy Birthday    10:21
4    Heavy Hanging    5:56
5    Guylene    10:30
6    More Tune    5:28
Europeana    
1    Castle In Heaven (Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg) 4:16
French Horn, Soloist – Theo Wiemes
2    Black Is The Colour Of My True Love's Hair 4:42
Oboe – Douglas Boyd
Tenor Horn – Django Bates
3    The Shepherd Of Breton (Dis Moi Donc Bergere) 4:34
Accordion – Richard Galliano
Orchestra – Members Of The NDR-Bigband
4    The Ingrian Rune Song (Seelinaikoi)    2:19
2-5        The Groom's Sister (Kylä Voutti Utta Kutta)
Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax] – Christof Lauer
6    Norwegian Psalm (Stevtone) 4:48
Flugelhorn – Markus Stockhausen
Oboe, Soloist – Martin Stoll
7    Three Angels (Es Sungen Drei Engel) 4:20
Tenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax] – Christof Lauer
Trombone – Albert Mangelsdorff
8    Heaven Has Created (Lo Ceu N'a Creat) 3:56
Piccolo Trumpet – Markus Stockhausen
9    She Moved Through The Fair 5:55
Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax] – Klaus Doldinger
10    Crebe De Chet    4:14
11    Midnight Sun (Ack, Värmeland, Du Sköna)    5:28
12    Londonderry Air 4:41
Violin, Soloist – Volker Worlitzsch
13    Otra Jazzpaña    5:35
Credits :
CD1 : Trio Kühn Humair Jenny-Clark live at JazzFest Berlin ‘87 & ‘95
Joachim Kühn - Piano
Daniel Humair - Drums
Jean-François Jenny-Clark - Bass
CD2 : Europeana
Joachim Kühn - Piano
Jean-François Jenny-Clark - Bass
Jon Christensen - Drums
Soloists: Django Bates, Douglas Boyd, Klaus Doldinger, Richard Galliano,
Christof Lauer, Albert Mangelsdorff & Markus Stockhausen
Radio Philharmonie Hannover NDR conducted by Michael Gibbs
Konzertmeister: Volker Worlitzsch

MARKUS STOCKHAUSEN | ARILD ANDERSEN | PATRICE HÉRAL | TERJE RYPDAL — Kartā (2000) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

This end-of-the-millennium quartet session probably best defines all the inherent contradictions in who ECM attracts to the label -- what kind of musician records for them -- and what concerns these artists and ECM's chief producer (and creator) Manfred Eicher hold in common. This set, although clearly fronted by Markus Stockhausen and Arild Andersen on brass and bass, respectively, allows space for the entire quartet to inform its direction. Héral and Rypdal are not musicians who can play with just anybody; their distinctive styles and strengths often go against the grain of contemporary European jazz and improvised music. Of the 11 compositions here, four are collectively written, with two each by Andersen and Stockhausen. "Flower of the Now" uses space and texture to create a harmonic architecture, skeletal though it may be. Stockhausen states a theme that acts as the syntax for the painterly drumming of Héral and Rypdal's interlocution between all the drifting parties. "Sway" begins with Héral's trans-African drumming, followed by the fury of Rypdal's own brand of guitar improvisation. He edges through musical frameworks of the past in rock, blues, and jazz, cutting them down in the process of playing knotty arpeggios and deconstructed riffs that rely on harmonic rather than lyrical language. When Stockhausen moves into the fray, it's sparingly in stark contrast to Rypdal's splatter and roll methodology and brings things to a near halt, with only Andersen to slip a groove through the band's abstractions. This is a record of "sonics," an area not unlike the forbidden "Zone" filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's hero, who guides people through in the film Stalker -- forbidden, wasted, and beautifully desolate. When listeners reach the place in "Auma" where Andersen's bass employs electronic devices to give it an "orchestra" or chamber section quality, they can hear how attentive this crew really is to one another. They move about slowly and purposefully in the musical spheres where sound, language, and harmonic monoliths all give way into something less definite, less shapely or contoured in favor of the unspeakable, the unmentionable, the inarticulate speech of the heart as it enters, through sound's language: one of tension, dynamic, nuance, and texture, the various places where spoken language fails so miserably. In all, Karta is an effort that showcases the very best of its collective: It contains aesthetic grace and elegance as well as great violence and chaos. For all the recordings in "popular" music made at the end of the century, this is the one that sums up best where Western music has traveled these last hundred years, and points to just how far it yet needs to journey in the next thousand. Karta is soulful, tender, and frightening.
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Tracklist :
1    Sezopen 4:50
Composed By – Andersen
2    Flower Of Now 9:15
Composed By – Stockhausen
3    Wood And Naphta 2:55
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
4    Sway 4:24
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
5    Auma 8:02
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
6    Legacy 5:18
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
7    Invocation 4:44
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
8    Wild Cat 7:57
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
9    Emanation
Composed By – Andersen, Stockhausen, Héral, Rypdal
10    Choral 3:57
Composed By – Stockhausen
11    Lighthouse 8:40
Composed By – Andersen
Credits :
Double Bass – Arild Andersen
Drums, Percussion, Electronics [Live Electronics] – Patrice Héral
Electric Guitar – Terje Rypdal
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Piccolo Trumpet – Markus Stockhausen

RALPH TOWNER - City of Eyes (1989) FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

Ralph Towner breaks out in more ways than one on City of Eyes. Despite his band Oregon's lagging creative slump and his own obsession with a synthesizer he is only beginning to learn how to "play," Towner cuts some new grooves on this set with an all-star cast. New to Towner's musical universe is drummer/percussionist Jerry Granelli and brass auteur Markus Stockhausen. Even Paul McCandless -- who has spent the better part of the '80s making new age albums -- doesn't muck things up this time out. The opener, "Jamaica Stopover," is Towner's freshest solo guitar piece in ages. It's slippery, has a groove, and is actually rooted in both the blues and gypsy swing. The first ensemble piece, "Cascades," sounds a little florid at the outset, but Granelli's percussive ambience is a cure for the rococo melody (it again reeks of Offramp-period Pat Metheny-ism). Towner kicks it into classical gear on "Les Douzilles," before moving into a hot improv duet with Gary Peacock, who -- believe it -- plays his bass like a guitarist. The fretwork by Towner and the pizzicato by Peacock are among the most intricate, complex, and purely "musical" duets in recent history between the two instruments. This is where Towner shines, when challenged by a musician equal to, or greater than, his own abilities. The entire ensemble plays together on only three selections, the aforementioned "Cascades," the title track, and "Tundra." On the title track the music shifts modally from one series of chamber jazz timbres to another; mood and tempo relentless move throughout the piece's first five minutes, giving a feeling as if it is a free improv piece one moment and something strictly composed for rhythm and meter the next. Harmonically, Towner pianistically creates intervals that offer shades and colors of ambient-like texture. He extends the musical reach of Peacock's bass role by making it of primary importance to the work's lyrical line and its role in the "free" sections. On "Tundra," the focus is on Towner as musical interloper, connecting each player's lines with his riveting 12-string work. The melody comes from minor, augmented chords. Granelli stays in the pocket, painting over the guitar with bells and chimes, but the others engage Towner separately. Stockhausen's contribution is especially noteworthy, as he punctuates each short guitar line with a long, beautiful phrase that is an extended tonality from that of the guitar. In essence, City of Eyes shows Ralph Towner as a musical explorer again, a composer and instrumentalist who can persuasively create aural travelogues through time, space, and terrain.
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Tracklist:
1     Jamaica Stopover 4:15
Ralph Towner
2     Cascades 6:15
Ralph Towner
3     Les Douzilles 6:14
Ralph Towner
4     City of Eyes 4:13
Ralph Towner
5     Sipping the Past 2:36
Ralph Towner
6     Far Cry 4:26
Ralph Towner
7     Janet 3:24
Ralph Towner
8     Sustained Release 5:06
Ralph Towner
9     Tundra 4:43
Ralph Towner
10     Blue Gown 5:36
Ralph Towner
Credits:
Bass – Gary Peacock (faixas: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9)
Classical Guitar – Ralph Towner (faixas: 1, 3, 7, 8, 10)
Design [Cover Design] – Barbara Wojirsch
Drums – Jerry Granelli (faixas: 2, 4, 6, 8, 9)
Electronic Drums – Jerry Granelli (faixas: 2, 4, 9)
English Horn – Paul McCandless (faixas: 4, 9)
Flugelhorn [Fluegelhorn] – Markus Stockhausen (faixas: 4)
Oboe – Paul McCandless (faixas: 2)
Piano, Synthesizer – Ralph Towner (faixas: 2, 6)
Piccolo Trumpet – Markus Stockhausen (faixas: 2)
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Trumpet – Markus Stockhausen (faixas: 9)
Twelve-String Guitar [12-String Guitar] – Ralph Towner (faixas: 4 to 6, 9