ECM
| Track length: | 0:53 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318201 |
| Track length: | 5:21 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318202 |
| Track length: | 4:57 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318203 |
| Track length: | 4:56 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318204 |
| Track length: | 5:21 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318205 |
| Track length: | 6:18 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318206 |
| Track length: | 4:38 |
| Artist: | Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Performer: | Magnetic North Orchestra |
| Jon Balke | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318207 |
| Track length: | 5:36 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318208 |
| Track length: | 6:41 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318209 |
| Track length: | 5:36 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318210 |
| Track length: | 1:31 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318211 |
| Track length: | 7:52 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318301 |
| Track length: | 4:06 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318302 |
| Track length: | 1:31 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318303 |
| Track length: | 3:44 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318304 |
| Track length: | 3:55 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra, Jon Balke & Cikada String Quartet |
| Performer: | Cikada String Quartet |
| Jon Balke | |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318305 |
| Track length: | 4:12 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318306 |
| Track length: | 2:49 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318307 |
| Track length: | 4:34 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318308 |
| Track length: | 3:06 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318309 |
| Track length: | 4:53 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318310 |
| Track length: | 5:06 |
| Artist: | Magnetic North Orchestra & Jon Balke |
| Performer: | Jon Balke |
| Magnetic North Orchestra | |
| Genre: | Modern |
| Publisher: | Manuscript (NCB/TONO) |
| Composer: | Jon Balke |
| ISRC: | DEB339318311 |
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About Jon Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra:
The first, sprawling edition of Magnetic North combined a large percussion group, a string quartet and a jazz sextet, “to explore the palette of sound and possibilities that this instrumentation could give.” Since then, an eight-piece nucleus has been Balke’s preferred touring model, but the smaller units have retained much of the sound-colour and timbral potential of the original group while operating with increasingly subtlety, as the leader continues to explore “the balance between polyphonic writing and improvisation.”
In July 2001, in Copenhagen, Balke again had an opportunity to direct a very large ensemble: Grand Magnetic, as he called it, augmented Magnetic North with a 14-piece string group. In this context Balke met Bjarte Eike, Peter Spissky and Thomas Pitt who were section leaders within the ensemble: “After that, I started sketching, working out how to integrate the composed playing inside the ongoing improvised playing, and let the two elements feed each oth...