Performer: | Nils Petter Molvær |
Title: | Khmer |
Country: | Germany |
Style: | Future Jazz |
Category: | Electronic / Jazz |
Rating: | 4.4 ✦ |
Other format: | ASF AHX VQF MP3 MP4 APE MIDI |
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
Nils Petter Molvær (Norwegian pronunciation: ) also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most commercially successful album, Khmer. Molvær was born and raised on the island of Sula, Møre og Romsdal, Norway, and left at age nineteen to study on the Jazz program at Trondheim Musikkonservatorium (1980–82)
Nils Petter Molvær – Khmer. 타일: Future Jazz, Contemporary Jazz. As I vinyl junkie I have to admit: this recording is superb on this cd. Amazing stereo sound. The bass is deeper than deep. A true ddd recording. 글 답글 1개 보기 나에게 알림 Helpful.
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Khmer (released 1997 in Germany by ECM Records (ECM 1560) – 537 798-2) is an album by the Norwegian trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær. The album mixes elements of electronica and jazz. The album is based on sampled and artificially generated sounds, backed by beats from house and drum'n'bass. However, the often very slow rhythms are played on acoustic drums.
Nils Petter Molvær Khmer ECM Records 1997. particularly in their native. But it was trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær's 1997 album, Khmer, that had, perhaps, the most impact, if for no other reason than it was released on Munich's heralded ECM Records, a label with broad international reach and a reputation so strong that many of its fans would purchase albums by artists unknown to them on the basis of their simply being.
This album has an average beat per minute of 140 BPM (slowest/fastest tempos: 76/200 BPM). See its BPM profile at the bottom of the page. Album starts at 163BPM, ends at 162BPM (-1), with tempos within the -BPM range. Try refreshing the page if dots are missing). Recent albums by Nils Petter Molvær.
1 | KhmerDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar [E-bow Guitar], Sampler [Samples] – Eivind AarsetPercussion, Dulcimer – Roger LudvigsenTrumpet, Percussion, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
4:59 |
2 | TlønDrums – Rune ArnesenEffects [Guitar Treatments], Performer [Talk Box] – Eivind AarsetFeaturing [Contains A Sample] – Frankie "O" GeneratorGuitar – Morten MølsterSampler [Samples] – Ulf W. Ø. Holand*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
7:52 |
3 | Access / Song Of Sand IDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Eivind AarsetSampler [Samples] – Ulf W. Ø. Holand*Sounds [Sound Treatment] – Raidar Skår*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples], Guitar – Nils Petter Molvær |
5:51 |
4 | On StreamGuitar – Eivind AarsetGuitar [Guitar Solo] – Morten MølsterSampler – Ulf W. Ø. Holand*Trumpet, Sampler [Samples], Bass – Nils Petter Molvær |
5:01 |
5 | Platonic YearsDrums – Rune ArnesenFeaturing [Sample By] – Ab und ZuFeaturing [Sample Produced By] – Bill LaswellGuitar – Morten MølsterGuitar [Ambient Guitar], Sampler [Samples] – Eivind AarsetTrumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
6:33 |
6 | PhumAcoustic Guitar – Roger LudvigsenTrumpet, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
3:39 |
7 | Song Of Sand IIDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Eivind AarsetSampler [Samples] – Ulf W. Ø. Holand*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples], Guitar – Nils Petter Molvær |
6:11 |
8 | ExitAcoustic Guitar – Roger LudvigsenGuitar [E-bow Guitar] – Eivind AarsetSampler [Percussion Sample] – Nils Petter Molvær |
2:42 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 |
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album, RE) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | Unknown |
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 |
ECM 1560, 774 2658 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (LP, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 774 2658 | Germany | 2019 |
ECM 1560, 78118 21560 2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album + CD, Comp) | ECM Records, BMG Classics | ECM 1560, 78118 21560 2 | US | 1998 |
1 | KhmerDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar [E-bow], Sampler [Samples] – Eivind AarsetPercussion, Dulcimer – Roger LudvigsenTrumpet, Percussion, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
4:59 |
2 | TlønDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Morten MølsterGuitar [Treatments], Talkbox – Eivind AarsetSampler [Samples] – Ulf W.Ø.Holand*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
7:52 |
3 | Access / Song Of Sand 1Drums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Eivind AarsetSampler [Samples] – Ulf W.Ø.Holand*Sounds [Sound Treatment] – Raidar Skår*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples], Guitar – Nils Petter Molvær |
5:51 |
4 | On StreamGuitar – Eivind AarsetGuitar [Solo] – Morten MølsterSampler [Samples] – Ulf W.Ø.Holand*Trumpet, Sampler [Samples], Bass – Nils Petter Molvær |
5:01 |
5 | Platonic YearsDrums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Morten MølsterGuitar [Ambient], Sampler [Samples] – Eivind AarsetTrumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
6:33 |
6 | PhumAcoustic Guitar – Roger LudvigsenTrumpet, Sampler [Samples] – Nils Petter Molvær |
3:39 |
7 | Song Of Sand 2Drums – Rune ArnesenGuitar – Eivind AarsetSampler [Samples] – Ulf W.Ø.Holand*Trumpet, Bass, Sampler [Samples], Guitar – Nils Petter Molvær |
6:11 |
8 | ExitAcoustic Guitar – Roger LudvigsenGuitar [E-bow] – Eivind AarsetPercussion [Sample] – Nils Petter Molvær |
2:42 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 |
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album, RE) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | Unknown |
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album, RE) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | Unknown |
ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (CD, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 537 798-2 | Germany | 1997 |
ECM 1560, 774 2658 | Nils Petter Molvær | Khmer (LP, Album) | ECM Records, ECM Records | ECM 1560, 774 2658 | Germany | 2019 |