After more than forty years of groundbreaking productions, ECM release “Provenance” – their first, in a distinguished tradition of solo bass albums, devoted to the electric bass guitar. Certainly a unique sonic experience!

Nine musicians from three continents, united in a creative dialog that goes far beyond music.

“Music that will make you want to acoustically rediscover the world.”

New Release - CURIOUS OBJECTS - 5.5.23

... the details of their music join, develop a life of their own and lift off to collective flights of ideas. This music is an invitation to listen without prejudice, offering a way to get lost in dreams while, at the same time, remaining solidly grounded and completely awake.

Three master musicians from Sweden who have spent the last twenty years refining their sound and defining a space of their own in the world music scene.
Bazar Blå creates new music that manages to be just as Swedish as it is globally irresistible.

While electric bass and trumpet might not appear the most obvious of combinations, Björn Meyer and Tom Arthurs fuse the seemingly impossible into a beautiful and fleeting improvised duo – drawing from folk musics, baroque music, improvised music and jazz to defy genres and create a music as unique as they are, and as the moment in which it is created.

NEN is NEN and does not strive to fit into any drawer. Whoever hears and sees a NEN concert gets caught in the typical NEN-state, which does not wear off so easily.
A challenge - with happy consequences!

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...is it all just zeros and ones ?

In times when we delegate the management of our lives to algorithms broken down into zeros and ones, two well-traveled sound shamans reflect on the retreat into a primal-intuitive space. Far away from the buzz of the digital highway, where the flow of music transcends the measurable and explainable, they continue to weave the mythical carpet that already warmed your feet generations ago in your soul temple.

Andreas Schaerer: Voice

Björn Meyer: Bass

"The Marcel Lüscher Quartet manages to balancing act between intellectual and sensual, between head and belly, between complex and captivating"

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Tenor saxophone, concert harp and bass - a common language where even the most contrasting moods have a natural home. Through the many years of collaboration, the trio has distilled their repertoire into an unmistakable essence, taking the audience on a journey through delicate chamber music miniatures, cascading melodies, sensual soundscapes and pulsating grooves.

A dance of dark, warm sounds, urged onward by the darbouka and frame drum. The album is dedicated to the memory of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.

With ever more refinement in its melodic lines and at once contemplative and subtly narrative in its developments, the music contained in Souvenance possesses those qualities of self-evidence, naturalness and simplicity which are the hallmarks of works of genuine inspiration.

Starting with Drones - exploring the Far Side of sound!

Anja Lechner : vc
Björn Meyer : eb
Michele Rabbia: percussion

With her new quartet, Simin Tander moves into an unheard musical landscape of lyrical and refreshing contemporary songs and textures. All poems appearing in her new songs have been written by female poets and writers, offering a rare glimpse into female Pashto/Afghan poetry as well as featuring a poem by Sylvia Plath and some of Simin´s own lyrics.

Simin Tander: Voice

Jasser Haj Youssef: Viola d´amore

Björn Meyer: Electric bass

Samuel Rohrer: Drums