Stephan Micus - Nomad Songs (2015) {ECM 2409}
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© 2015 ECM Records | ECM 2409 | 471 4325
Jazz / International Jazz / Ethnic / Minimalism / Neo-Classical
In his journeys all over the world Stephan Micus seeks to study and understand traditional instruments, the sounds that they produce and the cultures that brought them to life. He then composes original pieces for them, combining instruments that would never normally be heard together, chosen from different cultures simply for their character, texture and sonic beauty. Nomad Songs is his 21st album for ECM; he plays nine different instruments, but emphasizes two he hasn’t used before: The first is the Moroccan genbri, a lute covered with camel-skin, played by the Gnawa in Morocco.
The second is the ndingo, a lamellophone similar to the kalimba, used by the San people in Botswana. These indigenous inhabitants of Southern Africa have been pushed off their land and marginalized by the new nation states. With the album’s title Micus, who sees himself as a musical nomad, refers to both the situation of people like the Gnawa and the San as well as his own way of working and living.
ECM INFO
Personnel: Stephan Micus: voice, ndingo, genbri, guitars, suling, nay, rewab, rabab, shakuhachi
tracklist:
01 - Everywhere, Nowhere
02 - Leila
03 - The Promise
04 - The Stars
05 - The Spring
06 - The Blessing
07 - The Feast
08 - Laughing At Thunder
09 - Sea Of Grass
10 - The Dance
11 - Under Te Chinar Trees
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
EAC extraction logfile from 10. October 2015, 13:26
Stephan Micus / Nomad Songs
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EAC extraction logfile from 10. October 2015, 13:26
Stephan Micus / Nomad Songs
Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240S Adapter: 3 ID: 1
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface
Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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TOC of the extracted CD
Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 4:40.12 | 0 | 21011
2 | 4:40.12 | 5:27.68 | 21012 | 45604
3 | 10:08.05 | 8:19.05 | 45605 | 83034
4 | 18:27.10 | 2:47.30 | 83035 | 95589
5 | 21:14.40 | 2:53.03 | 95590 | 108567
6 | 24:07.43 | 4:30.04 | 108568 | 128821
7 | 28:37.47 | 5:04.27 | 128822 | 151648
8 | 33:41.74 | 4:21.14 | 151649 | 171237
9 | 38:03.13 | 5:01.56 | 171238 | 193868
10 | 43:04.69 | 6:12.54 | 193869 | 221822
11 | 49:17.48 | 6:42.55 | 221823 | 252027
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