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Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food - Mercurial Balm album flac Performer: Thomas Strønen
Title: Mercurial Balm
Style: Experimental, Avant-garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz
Released: 2012
Country: Germany
MP3 album: 1132 mb
FLAC album: 1454 mb
Rating: 4.7
Other formats: WAV MP1 AUD WMA DMF FLAC RA
Genre: Electronic / Jazz

By Thomas Strønen, Iain Ballamy & Christian Fennesz - Food & Thomas Strønen. By Thomas Strønen, Iain Ballamy & Christian Fennesz - Food & Thomas Strønen.

Mercurial Balm is the second Food album on ECM and follows Quiet Inlet, released in 2010, of which The Guardian’s John Fordham wrote, ECM’s scrupulousness about sound quality certainly counts here. Quiet Inlet’ vibrates with irresistibly fascinating detail and visceral excitement. This is contemporary music through and through, with an urgent mix of acoustic and electronic sound. Originally formed as a quartet in 1998, Food was.

The core duo of Food, . saxophonist Iain Ballamy and drummer/electronic artist Thomas Strønen, initially founded the band as a quartet in the late '90s, then pared down to a duo in 2006. On their second release for ECM, Mercurial Balm, the duo mixes electric and acoustic material with guest musicians Eivind Aarset on guitar and electronics, Indian slide guitarist and singer Prakash Sontakke, trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær, and second guitarist Christian Fennesz

Drums, Percussion, Electronics – Thomas Strønen. Engineer – Paul Nickson, Pete Freshney. Engineer – Per Espen Ursfjord. Producer – Food, Manfred Eicher. Saxophone, Electronics – Iain Ballamy. Slide Guitar, Vocals – Prakash Sontakke (tracks: 7 to 9). Trumpet – Nils Petter Molvær (tracks: 6).

Food: Mercurial Balm by John Kelman, published on January 9, 2013.

Songs from Mercurial Balm by Christian Fennesz, Eivind Aarset. Free download and listen Mercurial Balm. Artists: Christian Fennesz. Tracks count: 10. Views: 18. Eivind Aarset, Iain Ballamy, Thomas Strønen, Thomas Stronen, Food, Prakash Sontakke - Chanterelle 03:46.

Bitrate (quality): 192256320.

Mercurial Balm · Food. 2012 ECM Records GmbH, under exclusive license to Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin. Released on: 2012-11-09. Producer: Manfred Eicher Studio Personnel, Mixer: Jan Erik Kongshaug Associated Performer, Drums: Thomas Strønen Associated Performer, Saxophones: Iain Ballamy Associated Performer, Guitar: Eivind Aarset Associated Performer, Guitar: Prakash Sontakke Composer: Thomas Strønen Composer: Iain Ballamy Composer: Eivind Aarset Composer: Prakash Sontakke.

On this 2012 release, Norwegian drummer Thomas Strønen and British saxophonist Iain Ballamy, the core duo of Food, are surrounded by several impressive musical colleagues for live performances in Norway, England and Germany and studio sessions recorded in Oslo. Indian slide guitarist and singer Prakash Sontakke is teamed up with Eivind Aarset’s atmospheric guitar and electronics on the studio tracks, while the live songs feature Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz, continuing the sonic experiments begun on the highly acclaimed Quiet Inlet

Tracklist

Nebular 5:54
Celestial Food 4:24
Ascendant 6:00
Phase 3:47
Astral 9:07
Moonpie 4:33
Chanterelle 3:46
Mercurial Balm 5:01
Magnetosphere 6:17
Galactic Roll 4:42

Versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
ECM 2269, 370 9440 Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food - Mercurial Balm ‎(CD, Album) ECM Records, ECM Records ECM 2269, 370 9440 Germany 2012
ECM 370 9440 Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food Thomas Strønen / Iain Ballamy : Food - Mercurial Balm ‎(CDr, Album, Promo) Universal Music France, ECM Records ECM 370 9440 France 2012
Comments: (1)
Mariwyn
The Food team of Norwegian drummer Strønen and British saxophonist Ballamy continues to invite guests to bring something to the table. The form-and-texture conscious improvisations here are drawn from live performances in Norway, England and Germany and studio sessions at Oslo’s Rainbow. To the latter group belong tracks on which Indian slide guitarist and singer Prakash Sontakke is partnered by Eivind Aarset’s atmospheric guitar and electronics. The first half of the album finds Food augmented by Austrian guitarist Christian Fennesz, taking further the experiments with layers of sound begun on Quiet Inlet. Nils Petter Molvær joins Strønen, Ballamy and Fennesz for a track recorded at Mannheim’s Enjoy Jazz Festival.