Track length: | 16:38 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230201 |
Track length: | 11:31 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230202 |
Track length: | 8:09 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230203 |
Track length: | 8:58 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230204 |
Track length: | 14:45 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230205 |
Track length: | 13:11 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230301 |
Track length: | 8:37 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230302 |
Track length: | 13:11 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230303 |
Track length: | 10:00 |
Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Performer: | Nik Bärtsch's Ronin |
Genre: | Jazz |
Publisher: | Ronin Rhythm Productions |
Composer: | Nik Bärtsch |
ISRC: | DEB331230304 |
Nik Bärtsch - piano
Sha - alto saxophone, bass clarinet
Björn Meyer - bass
Thomy Jordi - bass (on Modul 55)
Kaspar Rast - drums
Andi Pupato - percussion
Recorded between 2009 and 2011
Ronin around the world: a powerful and atmospheric concert recording with music captured in Germany, Austria, Holland, England, and Japan, a double-album which transmits the live impact of Nik Bärtsch’s band and its enveloping modular groove music of interlocking rhythms. It’s also a set that marks the end of an era and the transition into a new one. These are the last recordings of Ronin with Björn Meyer’s elegantly-leaping bass guitar as one of the lead voices, and Bärtsch views the album as partly a tribute to Meyer’s long tenure with the band. New bassist Thomy Jordi, meanwhile, makes an impressive entrance on “Modul 55”, but it’s most often the whole band, as a unified field of force, that commands the listener’s attention.
Born 1971 in Zurich. Pianist, composer and producer. Instruction in piano and percussion from the age 8. 1997 Graduation from the 'Musikhoch-schule Zürich'. 1989-2001 studies in philosophy, linguistics and musico-logy at the University of Zurich. 2003-04 stay in Japan. Ongoing work on his RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC as pianist and composer. Leader of zen-funk quintet RONIN (since 2001; with Kaspar Rast, Björn Meyer, Andi Pupato & Sha) and MOBILE (since 1997). Teacher for ‘practical aesthetics’ at the 'Musikhochschule Zürich/Winterthur' (2000-03). Numerous awards from 1999, including the jazz priority award of Swiss Arts Council in 2006.