Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM
| Poetry by | Robert Wilson |
| Editor | Steve Lake (2), Paul Griffiths |
| Introduction by | Steve Lake (2) |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Contributing Writer | Jan Garbarek, Enrico Rava, Gianluigi Trovesi, Louis Sclavis, John Surman, Jon Balke, Iro Haarla, Tomasz Stanko, Arild Andersen, Nils Petter Molvær, Gordon Jones, Manu Katché, Trygve Seim, Eberhard Weber, Gavin Bryars, Anna Maria Friman, Stephen Stubbs, Barry Guy, John Holloway, Rolf Lislevand, Kim Kashkashian, András Schiff, Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Larcher, Christoph Poppen, Paul Giger, Michelle Makarski, Thomas Demenga, Till Fellner, Sandra Nettelbeck, Theo Angelopoulos, Eleni Karaindrou, Christian Frei, Heiner Goebbels, Anouar Brahem, David Darling (2), Jon Christensen, Marcin Wasilewski, Charles Lloyd (2), Paul Motian, Bill Frisell, Peter Erskine, Gary Burton, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Roberto Masotti, Jan Jedlička, Gérald Minkoff, Muriel Olesen, Jim Bengston, Mayo Bucher, Christoph Egger, Caroline Forbes, Werner Hannappel, Jean-Pierre Larcher, Thomas Wunsch, Dieter Rehm, Alan Teder, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Pierre Favre, Alexei Lubimov, Tigran Mansurian, Valentin Silvestrov, Giya Kancheli, Alexander Knaifel, Veljo Tormis, Anja Lechner, Dennis Russell Davies, Annette Peacock, Jack DeJohnette, Roscoe Mitchell, Joe Maneri, Mat Maneri, Barre Phillips, Evan Parker, Paul Bley, Marilyn Crispell, Christian Wallumrød, Carla Bley, Steve Kuhn, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Bobo Stensòn, Steve Tibbetts, Lena Willemark, Ale Möller, Anders Jormin, Zakir Hussain, Stephan Micus, Kayhan Kalhor, Miki N'Doye, Elliott Carter, György Kurtág, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann, Frances-Marie Uitti, Herbert Henck, Bent Sørensen, Meredith Monk, Gideon Lewensohn, Peter Laenger, Jan Erik Kongshaug, James Farber, Stefano Amerio, Gérard de Haro, Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie, Marc Johnson, Terje Rypdal, Ketil Bjørnstad, Dino Saluzzi, Tord Gustavsen, Savina Yannatou, Jacob Young, Nik Bärtsch, Michael Galasso, Gidon Kremer, Arvo Pärt, Susanne Abbuehl, Michael Mantler, Robin Williamson, Steve Swallow |
| Typeset by | M Rules |
| Printed by | C&C Offset Printing Co., Ltd. |
| Designed by | keenandesign |
| Essay by | Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Manfred Eicher, John Fordham, Michael Tucker, Ivan Moody, John Potter, Helen Wallace, Peter Rüedi, Josef Woodard, Lars Müller, Herbert Glossner, David Fanning, Keith Jarrett, Wolfgang Sandner, Karl Lippegaus, Paul Griffiths, Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, John Cratchley, John Kelman, Geoff Dyer, Thomas Steinfeld |
| Interview with/Interviewee | Manfred Eicher |
| About/Subject | ECM Records |
| Interview by/Interviewer | Steve Lake (2), Paul Griffiths |
| Format | Hardback |
| Language | English |
| Location | Great Britain |
| Copyright | 2007 |
| Pages / Font | 439 pages |
| ISBN | 978-1-86207-880-2 |
| Chapters | Introduction (Steve Lake) Our Music: Synopsis for a Film (Jean-Luc Godard/Anne-Marie Miéville) The Periphery and the Centre (Manfred Eicher) ECM and European Jazz (John Fordham) Northbound: ECM and 'The Idea of North' (Michael Tucker) On Parallel Lines: A Conversation with Jan Garbarek (Ivan Moody) Early Music Discoveries and Experiments (John Potter) Musicians of the New Series (Helen Wallace) Sound and Vision: ECM and Film Continuity in Change: the Metamorphoses of Keith Jarrett (Peter Rüedi) ECM and US Jazz (Josef Woodard) The ECM Cover (Lars Müller) On Arvo Pärt: Lamentate in the Context of his Oeuvre (Herbert Glossner) Late-Soviet and Post-Soviet Music: The World Within (David Fanning) The Free Matrix: An Interview with Manfred Eicher (Steve Lake) Inside Out: Thoughts on Free Playing (Keith Jarrett) Jazz, the Piano, and Jarrett's Galaxy (Wolfgang Sandner) Colours, Densities, Forms: how ECM Changed Folk Music (Karl Lippegaus) Against the Grain, Modernist Voices (Paul Griffiths) All Roads Lead to Bach (Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich) The Engineers ECM and the Guitar (John Cratchley) Present and Future Songs (John Kelman) Editions of Contemporary Me (Geoff Dyer) Every Color Imaginable (Robert Wilson) 'We Work in the Dark': An Interview with Manfred Eicher (Steve Lake/Paul Griffiths) Words and Music (Thomas Steinfeld) A Glass Raised to ME (Paul Griffiths) Contributors Discography Index |
| Notes | Book housed in a slipcase. Flap text: In 1969, producer Manfred Eicher founded a new record label, Edition of Contemporary Music, in Munich. Its first release: Free At Last, by American piano player Mal Waldon. More than a thousand albums later, amongst them the million-selling Köln Concert and Officium, ECM stands as a model of musical independence unique in the history of the record industry. Setting new standards with meticulously realized productions of improvised and notated music, ECM has changed the way music is played, recorded and perceived. In the first book devoted to the music of ECM, Steve Lake and Paul Griffiths present a multiple-perspective survey of the work of an extraordinary record company. This beautifully illustrated book includes extensive interviews with Manfred Eicher, more than twenty specially commissioned essays on every aspect of ECM's achievement, and over a hundred contributions from the artists, composers, designers and engineers who have worked with the label, and whose voices form an oral history in counterpoint. |
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