Ronin Rhythm Records
18 products
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Unspoken
$14.99CDRonin Rhythm Records
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The Playful Abstract
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The Playful Abstract (vinyl)
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May 23, 2025RONLP 043 -
A Certain Darkness is Needed to See the Stars (vinyl)
$16.99VinylRonin Rhythm Records
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Unspoken
The Playful Abstract
The Playful Abstract (vinyl)
A Certain Darkness is Needed to See the Stars (vinyl)
Basta! III (vinyl)
Basta! III
RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC I
Bartsch: Spin
FECKEL FOR LOVERS
YELLOW
NIK BARTSCH'S RONIN LIVE
NIK BARTSCH'S RONIN REA
Bartsch: Randori
Repetition and variation are such exhausted compositional means; what "new" music could they still produce? The question may be asked by those who have not yet heard Nik Bärtsch's quartet. With piano; bass guitar; drums and percussion; they set the stage. First surprise: the jazz line-up plays funk. Second surprise: The funk is on the spot. They always play the same thing! One motif time after time after time... Third surprise: they don't always play the same thing; it does change; but only minimally... After a quarter of an hour; the thing has a name: Steve Reich meets James Brown.
Pure / Blaer
The fourth album of working band BLAER, founded in 2013 by composer and pianist Maja Nydegger, is pure and essential - A „dive into calmness“. Since the last album, which attracted attention in the new jazz and ambient scene, the music developed into an even more original blend of different influences like ambient, minimal, spherical and independent music and contains even a pinch of movie scores.
Alloy / Jeremias Keller
Band leader, bassist and composer Jeremias Keller shows his quality as a creative multiinstrumentalist, arranger and contemporary indie producer on his new solo album ALLOY. Known as leader of his own band "Vertigo", as mastermind behind the home studio project "Lakota" and since 2020 as bassist of Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, he presents a concept album with a completely unique approach in his very own way of combining influences of post-rock, prog, jazz, electronica and indie pop
Bartsch: Aer
Is this a jazz record? Jazz musicians rarely play in such a disciplined; ego-less way. Minimal music? This music does not grow as processually and straightforwardly as Steve Reich's does. And you would look in vain for such expressive; individual nuances of timbre; articulation and timing in the ensembles of Reich or Glass. Jazz after all? If so; then a new; unfamiliar; reduced variant. The variant that the Zurich pianist Nik Bärtsch plays with his quartet "Mobile" he calls 'Ritual Groove Music’.
Plasma [Vinyl] / Ikarus
Plasma marks a major shift for the band—away from the sonically “immersive” and towards an almost tactile, physical quality of sound: the type that is associated with functional electronica. This is also Ikarus at their most affecting, playful, and fluent. The record, like that stuff lighting up a rural sky, is an energy. It’s something awe-inspiring, both familiar and alien. It’s also five instrumentalists who figured out how to maintain their individual voices while becoming one: a seamless, highly malleable substance.
LOOM
LOOM is the second album by KALI Trio and shows the consequent development of the original style of the working band. The three Swiss musicians Nicolas Stocker (drums), Urs Müller (e-guitar) und Raphael Loher (piano) weave the various threads of their stylistic background together with relish and fresh skillfulness on their musical loom. The music, created jointly as an organism, is continuously charged in the four tracks and in the overall dramaturgy of the album. It unfolds its rhythmic pull and its mysterious atmosphere in a subtle and inexorable manner. LOOM consists of only four compositions, but clocks in at a few seconds short of the 45 minute mark! It's a beast in scope, but airy (literally) in feel, hence easy to inhale. Each piece plays like the equivalent of a time-lapse of a looming cloud formation a liquid progression of shifting shapes, changing density as well as shadow and light play. By the virtue of working with subtle iterations of form and using extended swaths of time as the equivalent of a large-scale canvas, the material evokes the mechanics of trance music. The creative use of sound design and general choice of spartan aesthetics, albeit executed using acoustic instruments, emphasize styles club-inclined and tasteful. The overall effect is cinematic and mesmeric; a sonic documentation of a daydream unraveling.
