Norse to the Future: ECM’s Nordic Tinge
By Kevin Whitehead, eMusic Contributor
Almost since its inception in 1969, Germany's ECM Records has featured Scandinavian musicians. A symbiotic relationship quickly developed, as the label and its artists grew into a new Nordic style. To be sure, the label has sponsored lots of dashing music that doesn't fit that mold, from the splintery atonality of the UK's Music Improvisation Company through Lester Bowie's puckish The Great Pretender up to Tim Berne's or Michael Formanek's latest. We could go on… more »