Quiet ECM Recordings

Looking for ECM albums that would fall in the "quiet / spare / minimalist" spectrum. All recommendations will be appreciated.

 

There are too many ECM albums that fall in that category.
This one not one of them. But if I have to suggest an ECM album to anyone, this would be it.

Quiet and great,


Have a go at it Dave

 

Bobo Stenson's trio albums.
CODONA box

 

Minimalist you say, how about a classic of the genre?...



Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians

 

With a little known (at the time) bass player!

 

Eberhard Weber - Fluid Rustle

 

If you enjoy solo cello --and who doesn't? -- I can heartily recommend David Darling's Cello and its follow-up, Dark Wood. Quiet and haunting.

 

While it's certainly minimalist in genre, I'm not sure Music for 18 Musicians cabn adequately be described as spare and quiet. There's a very strong drive to the piece !

 

The Don Cherry / Ed Blackwell albums "El Corazón" and "'Mu' First Part" are lovely minimal duo conversations between two master musicians.

 

My fave Jon Hassell and my fave ECM album.

 

Bill Connors: "Swimming With A Hole In My Body," a lovely solo guitar album.

 

Got it. Love it.

 

Jan Garbarek's Dis...



"The windharp heard on this record was built by Norwegian Sverre Larssen. It is an instrument with strings that are brought to vibrate by the wind, thereby creating tones and overtones, which, in turn, are enhanced in a resonant body ... an instrument reacting directly to the air stream and creating this sound image of the wind.

The wind was recorded by Jan Erik Kongshaug on the coast of Southern Norway, a place particularly suitable because of the unending gusts of wind coming in from the North Sea."

 

There is this album of music by Arvo Pärt. Two pieces, one played three times, the other 2 times. All in slightly different configurations and / or interpretations. The music is as much about the silence in betweeen the notes as the notes themselves:

Arvo Pärt - Alina

 

Maybe FIRST AVENUE

 

Are you able to list what you already have, and indicate which you really like?

Are you only interested in stuff on ECM, or is ECM New Series OK too (some of the above suggestions are already on ECM New Series)?

Do you have a service like TIDAL or Spotify?

 

I listened to this one last night for the first time and Nice acoustic guitar and percussion.