Synthesizer
All records with synthesizer · Solo synthesizer only
American Garage
Second album by the Pat Metheny Group, with Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Mark Egan and Dan Gottlieb, recorded in June 1979 at Long View Farm, North Brookfield, Massachusetts, and first released by ECM in 1979.
Terje Rypdal / Miroslav Vitous / Jack DeJohnette
Cooperative trio of Terje Rypdal (guitar, guitar synthesizer, organ), Miroslav Vitous (double bass, electric piano) and Jack DeJohnette (drums), recorded in June 1978 at Talent Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. First released 1979.
Mountainscapes
Barre Phillips (double bass) with John Surman (saxophones, bass clarinet, synthesizer), Stu Martin (drums, synthesizer) and Dieter Feichtner (synthesizer), plus John Abercrombie (guitar) on the last track. Recorded March 1976 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg.
Face à Face
Duo improvisations by Barre Phillips (double bass) and György Kurtág jr. (synthesizers, digital percussion, live electronics). Recorded in 2020 at Studios La Buissonne, Pernes-les-Fontaines, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Siwan - Hafla
Third album by Jon Balke's Siwan, setting poems from 11th-century Al-Andalus, with singer Mona Boutchebak, Derya Türkan (kemençe), Pedram Khavar Zamini (tombak), Helge Norbakken and Barokksolistene. Recorded May-June 2021 at The Village Recording, Copenhagen.
The News
Andrew Cyrille (drums) with Bill Frisell (guitar), David Virelles (piano, synthesizer) and Ben Street (double bass), in tunes by Frisell, Virelles, Cyrille and Adegoke Steve Colson. Recorded August 2019 at Sound on Sound, produced by Sun Chung.
Big Vicious
Debut album of Avishai Cohen's Israeli quintet Big Vicious: Cohen (trumpet, effects, synthesizer), Uzi Ramirez and Yonatan Albalak (guitars, bass), Aviv Cohen and Ziv Ravitz (drums, live sampling). Recorded August 2019 at Studios La Buissonne, produced by Manfred Eicher.
Encore
Eberhard Weber's companion album to Résumé: bass solos recorded live with the Jan Garbarek Group in thirteen European cities between 1990 and 2007, reworked with his keyboards and Ack van Rooyen's flugelhorn. Mixed November 2014 at La Buissonne; produced by Manfred Eicher.
The Declaration Of Musical Independence
ECM leader debut of drummer Andrew Cyrille, with Bill Frisell (guitar), Richard Teitelbaum (synthesizer, piano) and Ben Street (double bass). Recorded July 2014 at Brooklyn Recording, New York; produced by Sun Chung.
Amorphae
Ben Monder's first ECM album as leader: solo electric guitar, duos with Paul Motian (October 2010, Sear Sound) and with Andrew Cyrille, plus trios with Cyrille and Pete Rende on synthesizer (December 2013, Brooklyn Recording). Produced by Sun Chung.
Music Of Weather Report
Miroslav Vitous revisits Weather Report repertoire with a sextet of two saxophonists (Gary Campbell, Roberto Bonisolo), two drummers (Gerald Cleaver, Nasheet Waits) and keyboards. Recorded 2010-2011 at Universal Syncopations Studios, Clavesana.
Vossabrygg
Vossabrygg (ECM 1984, 2006) is Terje Rypdal's Bitches Brew tribute commissioned by Vossa Jazz, recorded live at the festival in Voss on 12 April 2003 with Palle Mikkelborg, Marius Rypdal, Jon Christensen, Paolo Vinaccia and others.
Songs And One Symphony
Michael Mantler's Ernst Meister settings, sung by Mona Larsen with the Chamber Music and Songs Ensemble (Copenhagen, 1993), and his One Symphony, played by the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt under Peter Rundel (Frankfurt, 1998). CD, 2000.
Visible World
Jan Garbarek album of 15 original pieces, many first written for film and ballet, with Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Marilyn Mazur, Manu Katché, Trilok Gurtu and Mari Boine. Recorded June 1995, Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1585, 1996.
Música de Sobrevivência
Album by the Egberto Gismonti Group: Gismonti (piano, guitar, flute), Nando Carneiro (synthesizers, guitar, caxixi), Zeca Assumpção (bass) and Jaques Morelenbaum (cello), recorded April 1993 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1509, released 1993.
Twelve Moons
Jan Garbarek Group album with Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Manu Katché, Marilyn Mazur and singers Agnes Buen Garnås and Mari Boine, recorded September 1992 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo, produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM 1500, released 1993.
Despite the fire-fighters' efforts ...
Second and last album by Aparis: Markus Stockhausen (trumpets, flugelhorn), Simon Stockhausen (keyboards, soprano saxophone) and Jo Thönes (acoustic and electronic drums), recorded July 1992 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo. ECM 1496, released 1993.
Rosensfole
Medieval Norwegian ballads sung by Agnes Buen Garnås, arranged by Jan Garbarek for saxophones, synthesizers and percussion. Recorded September-December 1988 at Bel Studio, Oslo, produced by Garbarek and Manfred Eicher. CD, ECM 1402, 1989.
Der Mann im Fahrstuhl
Heiner Goebbels' setting of a monologue from Heiner Müller's play Der Auftrag, with Arto Lindsay, Don Cherry, Fred Frith, George Lewis and actor Ernst Stötzner, recorded in March 1988 in New York and Berlin and released by ECM in 1988.
Offramp
Third studio album by the Pat Metheny Group (Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Danny Gottlieb, with Naná Vasconcelos), recorded in October 1981 at the Power Station, New York, produced by Manfred Eicher and released by ECM in 1982. CD edition.