Nils Petter Molvær – Khmer
Genre: | Electronic, Jazz |
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Style: | Future Jazz, Contemporary Jazz |
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Tracklist
Khmer | 4:59 | ||
Tløn | 7:52 | ||
Access / Song Of Sand I | 5:50 | ||
On Stream | 5:01 | ||
Platonic Years | 6:33 | ||
Phum | 3:39 | ||
Song Of Sand II | 6:10 | ||
Exit | 2:42 |
Credits (14)
- Nils Petter MolværComposed By
- Sascha KleisDesign [Cover Design]
- Rune ArnesenDrums
- Reidar SkårEffects [Sound Treatment]
- Ulf W. Ø. Holand*Engineer
- Morten MølsterGuitar
Notes
Originally titled "Labyrinter", this song cycle was the 1996 comissioned work for the Vossa Jazz Festival. Later renamed "Khmer" and first released internationally by ECM Records in 1997, selling approximately 250000 copies worldwide.
On March 31, 2023, an updated version was performed at the 50th Vossa Jazz Festival anniversary, performed by Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Jan Bang (live sampling), DJ Strangefruit (turntables), Audun Erlien (bass), Rune Arnesen (drums), Per Lindvall (drums), Sven Persson (sound design) and Tord Knudsen (lights design).
On March 31, 2023, an updated version was performed at the 50th Vossa Jazz Festival anniversary, performed by Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Jan Bang (live sampling), DJ Strangefruit (turntables), Audun Erlien (bass), Rune Arnesen (drums), Per Lindvall (drums), Sven Persson (sound design) and Tord Knudsen (lights design).
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Khmer CD, Album | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 | Germany — 1997 | Recently Edited | ||||
Khmer CD, Album | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 | Germany — 1997 | Recently Edited | ||||
Khmer CD, Album | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 78118 21560 2 | US | 1997 | US — 1997 | New Submission | ||||
Khmer CD, Album, Promo | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 | Germany — 1997 | New Submission | ||||
Khmer CD, Album; CD, Compilation | ECM Records – ECM 1560, BMG Classics – 78118 21560 2 | US | 1998 | US — 1998 | Recently Edited | ||||
Khmer CD, Album, Stereo | ECM Records – POCJ-1401 | Japan | 1998 | Japan — 1998 | New Submission | ||||
Khmer CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, SHM-CD | ECM Records – UCCE-9247 | Japan | 2014 | Japan — 2014 | New Submission | ||||
Khmer LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo, 180-gram | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 774 2658 | Europe | 2019 | Europe — 2019 | Recently Edited | ||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue, HQCD 祝ECM 50周年 平成の名盤25 | ECM Records – UCCE-9360 | Japan | 2019 | Japan — 2019 | New Submission | ||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | ||||||
Khmer CD, Album, Unofficial Release | Limited Edition (6) – PN-311 | Russia | Russia | New Submission | |||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | Recently Edited | |||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | ||||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | New Submission | |||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | New Submission | |||||
Khmer 8×File, MP3, Album, Reissue, VBR | ECM Records – none | Germany | Germany | New Submission | |||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue, Stereo | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | ||||||
Khmer CD, Album, Reissue | ECM Records – ECM 1560, ECM Records – 537 798-2 | Germany | Germany | New Submission | |||||
Khmer 8×File, WAV, Album, Stereo, 16-bit / 44.1 kHz | ECM Records – none | Worldwide | Worldwide | New Submission |
Recommendations
Reviews
- This 16-bit 1997 release (Qobuz) sounds amazing. The clarity, dynamics, and mix are perfect. This sounds like a High Dynamic Range album, I don't think there's any compression at all. There's some strong bass lines but they're well defined and not bloated. Excellent!
- Edited 3 years agoI agree with wesyhysy: fantastic pressing - I bought the CD when it first came out and I just had to have it on vinyl.
Wonderful music and a flawless pressing. Side B has many quiet passages and they are absolutely dead silent.
Highly recommended for me. referencing Khmer (CD, Album) ECM 1560
It seemed to me or not, I will not say exactly, but this music is little like modern jazz, like Andrzej Jagodzianski Trio. Rather, it 's avant-garde jazz from the future.- Edited 6 years ago
referencing Khmer (CD, Album) ECM 1560
As I vinyl junkie I have to admit: this recording is superb on this cd. Amazing stereo sound. The bass is deeper than deep. Clear at the same. A true ddd recording. - Edited 4 years ago
referencing Khmer (CD, Album) ECM 1560
This was a pioneering venture for ECM and I being a fan of ECMs more electric and eclectric jazz was thrown a punch in the ear when I heard it over a decade ago.
You take one part Miles Davis late 70s era sound, one part down-tempo, one part fringe electronica and what you get is some darn amazing innovative music by one Norwegian who decided to take door number three within the context of what jazz is defined.
The turn tables, looped and wah/talkbox guitar, muted trumpet and heavy electric bass just grooves so hot you'd think global warming took its cue from this recording.
Some really exciting music that even today in 2017 sounds fresh and groundbreaking. Nils solos are poignant and precise without overbearing all the other instrumentation and thats what makes this a winner in my music library.
As a side note the deluxe version has a bonus cd of extra mixes. His follow-up Solid Ether is equally strong but Khmer is hard to topple as far as freshness! referencing Khmer (CD, Album, Reissue) ECM 1560
Review by Christian Genzel
Khmer is surely the most unusual album ever released by ECM -- unusual because the label, which is best known for elevated chamber jazz, presents the solo debut of trumpeter Nils Petter Molvaer as a production that plays with modern electronica methods while not eschewing the well-known ECM aesthetic. Molvaer's music is somewhere between scary and majestic, and changes between ominous ambient sounds and hard breakbeats, along which atonal screeching guitars combined with melancholic melodies, create a fascinating mélange. Above all this thrones Molvaer's trumpet: lyrical, hectic, calm and sad, trembling and screaming. Molvaer is one of the most progressive and intelligent voices in jazz today, and with Khmer he's recorded one of the best jazz albums of the '90s
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