Nik Brtsch's Mobile Continuum (2xLP, ECM)

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• Swiss pianist and composer Nik Brtsch and his band Ronin grabbed the attention of the international jazz world with four acclaimed ECM recordings between 2006 and 2012. The group’s trademark sound lies in minimal, interlocking, contrapuntal, polyrhythmic grooves that Brtsch defines as “zen funk,” played on piano, percussion, and electric bass. It is not only listenable, but actually danceable.

  But Ronin‘s roots lie in Mobile, an earlier Brtsch ensemble that cut two albums Ritual Groove Music in 2004 and Aer in 2006 before this one. The composer’s approach to rhythm, skeletal harmony, counterpoint, and repetition is different but holistic everywhere evident in both. The pianist’s Mobile features bassist <