October Luminessence Releases

ECM Releases Annette Peacock’s An Acrobat’s Heart and Marilyn Crispell’s Amaryllis on Vinyl as Part of its Audiophile Luminessence Series

Available October 25, 2024

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ECM’s audiophile vinyl-reissue series Luminessence greets fall with two remarkable recordings from the catalogue: Annette Peacock’s An Acrobat’s Heart and Marilyn Crispell’s Amaryllis, both available on October 25.

The Luminessence series is a kaleidoscope, shedding light on the jewels of the label’s deep catalogue in elegant, high-quality editions. The hallmarks of the series: original and evocative music, imaginatively played and sensitively produced. The recordings underline the scope and variety of ECM’s world of sound and the LPs are presented in different formats.

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“Marilyn Crispell has made two of the most beautiful piano trio records in recent memory…Nothing Ever Was, Anyway gave the first intimation of a different Ms Crispell: elegiac, meditative, more inclined to let the spaces between the notes breathe. The Annette Peacock tribute which marked the beginning of her association with ECM, seems to have liberated her. Ms Crispell’s new sensibility has grown even more pronounced on the new album. A richly melancholic collection of improvisations and compositions by each member of her the trio, Amaryllis is suffused with a romanticism that Nothing Ever Was hinted at but held in check. It’s also a record by a mature woman who knows something of solitude: sorrowful, yet finally affirmative, in the way that Joni Mitchell can be.”

— Adam Shatz, New York Times

Return of the great American jazz trio that delivered the poll-topping Nothing Ever Was, Anyway in 1997. Material heard on Amaryllis is by turns thoughtful, touching, joyous and viscerally exciting. Some of the songs are well known – almost classics of new jazz – including Crispell’s “Rounds”, Peacock’s “Requiem” and “December Wings, Motian’s “Conception Vessel”. There are also a number of startlingly effective free improvised ballads. As leader Marilyn Crispell says, “There’s a great depth of communication, a rare delicacy. ” Interaction between the musicians is exceptional.

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“The unique vocalist-pianist, too long off the scene, has concocted a hypnotically tender and ethereal song cycle, musing on the battlefield/playground of love and life. Her wispy voice floats across a spare landscape, while the Cikada String Quartet and Peacock’s own minimalist piano lines vie with poetic silences. Hinting at jazz and chamber music, her private musical language is a bittersweet waking dream of a project, and a welcome return.”

— Josef Woodward, Entertainment Weekly

A ravishingly beautiful album by one of the most mysterious, elusive and beguiling figures on the fringes of jazz. An Acrobat’s Heart features the unique vocals and piano playing of singer-songwriter Annette Peacock, performing her own compositions with the acclaimed Cikada String Quartet. If you like An Acrobat’s Heat, then you’d probably like: Marilyn Crispell’s Nothing Ever Was, Anyway, Paul Bley’s Paul Bley with Gary Peacock, Arild Andersen’s Hyperborean, Bent Sørensen’s Birds and Bells Norma Winstone’s Somewhere Called Home.

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Further titles to be released as part of the Luminessence series are Madar, the one-time coming together of three improvisational forces from multiple musical heritages with Jan Garbarek, oud-master Anouar Brahem and tabla-legend Ustad Shaukat Hussain as well as Rainer Brüninghaus with Freigeweht, Zakir Hussain’s Making Music with Hariprasad Chaurasia, John McLaughlin and Jan Garbarek and Bennie Maupin’s long out of print The Jewel and The Lotus. More will follow.

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