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Esteemed independent label ECM Records today announced they are expanding their partnership with long-standing distribution partner, Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music based entertainment to bring the entire ECM catalogue to major streaming platforms on Friday November 17, 2017. Renowned for contemporary, jazz and classical music, ECM\u2019s catalogue is critically-acclaimed as the finest of its kind. Curated by its visionary founder Manfred Eicher, ECM has maintained a consistently high standard of artistry and production. The music and its accompanying artwork have been the subjects of books, films and exhibitions around the world.\u00a0 Music from the likes of Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Paul Bley, Arvo P\u00e4rt, Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Kim Kashkashian, Anouar Brahem, Jack DeJohnette, Tomasz Stanko, Avishai Cohen, Nik B\u00e4rtsch, Vijay Iyer, Gidon Kremer, Meredith Monk a.o. will now be available on Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music, Deezer, Qobuz and Tidal.<\/p>\n
Deutsche Grammophon, UMG\u2019s prestigious Yellow Label will be responsible for international digital distribution of the extensive ECM catalogue, the launch will be accompanied by a wide-ranging campaign in conjunction with the highly-engaged participating streaming partners.<\/p>\n
ECM and UMG have also agreed a long-term extension of their partnership in physical distribution, expanding into Australia as an additional territory moving forward.<\/p>\n
Clemens Trautmann, President of Deutsche Grammophon said: \u201cI would like to thank Manfred Eicher for placing his trust in Universal Music Group and Deutsche Grammophon. Myself, my team and my colleagues around the world are delighted to work on bringing the precious ECM catalogue to digital platforms. We want to place our distribution capabilities fully at the disposal of ECM and its great artists and in doing so, benefit from each other\u2019s experiences and generate synergies with the portfolio of Deutsche Grammophon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Frank Briegmann, President & CEO Central Europe Universal Music and Deutsche Grammophon: \u201cI am delighted by this strengthened co-operation, our collaboration shows how a world-renowned genre label and a global major can respect and complement each other perfectly. Manfred Eicher\u2019s decades long emphasis on outstanding artists and exemplary production has created a legendary catalogue in the truest sense of the word.\u00a0 We are proud to provide them with access to our international structure and team of experts.\u201d<\/p>\n
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ECM STATEMENT:
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ECM and Streaming<\/p>\n
Over the past week we have begun the process of entering streaming, and from November 17th, the full ECM catalogue will be available to subscribers to services including Apple Music, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer, Tidal and Qobuz. This simultaneous launch across the platforms \u2013 facilitated by a new digital distribution agreement with Universal Music \u2013 invites listeners to explore the wide range of music recorded by our artists in the course of nearly five decades of independent production.<\/p>\n
Although ECM\u2019s preferred mediums remain the CD and LP, the first priority is that the music should be heard. The physical catalogue and the original authorship are the crucial references for us: the complete ECM album with its artistic signature, best possible sound quality, sequence and dramaturgy intact, telling its story from beginning to end.<\/p>\n
In recent years, ECM and the musicians have had to face unauthorized streaming of recordings via video-sharing sites, plus piracy, bootlegs, and a proliferation of illegal download sites. It was important to make the catalogue accessible within a framework where copyrights are respected.<\/p>\n
ECM Press Office
Munich, November 14, 2017<\/p>\n
Notes to editors:
ECM
In the course of its nearly fifty-year history ECM records has established a reputation as one of the most imaginative and creative independent labels.\u00a0 For many listeners \u2013\u00a0 as The Village Voice once pointed out \u2013 ECM has become \u201cmore like a genre than a label\u201d, albeit a genre informed by music from the most diverse sources.\u00a0 The consistently high quality of ECM\u2019s productions is legendary and the music and its accompanying artwork have been the subjects of books, films and exhibitions around the world.<\/p>\n
ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) was founded by Manfred Eicher and Karl Egger in Munich in 1969, and emphasized improvisation from the outset, its first release being Mal Waldron\u2019s aptly-titled Free At Last.\u00a0 Standard-setting jazz recordings by Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Gary Burton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry, John Surman, Terje Rypdal, Egberto Gismonti, Enrico Rava, Ralph Towner, Pat Metheny and more soon followed.\u00a0\u00a0 By the late 1970s, contemporary composition was also part of the programme, with idiosyncratic classics including Steve Reich\u2019s Music for 18 Musicians and Meredith Monk\u2019s Dolmen Music.<\/p>\n
ECM New Series was launched in 1984 to introduce Arvo P\u00e4rt\u2019s quietly revolutionary Tabula Rasa album. The New Series has since become a broad platform for a spectrum of composition from the pre-baroque era to the present day.\u00a0 Eicher, active as a producer for both ECM streams, has won numerous awards as Classical Producer of the Year and as Jazz Producer of the Year, and ECM has also collected international prizes across the categories.<\/p>\n
Composers regularly represented on ECM New Series include \u2013 in addition to P\u00e4rt \u2013 Gy\u00f6rgy Kurt\u00e1g, Valentin Silvestrov, Tigran Mansurian, Giya Kancheli, Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr, Heinz Holliger, Heiner Goebbels, Helena Tulve and Eleni Karaindrou.\u00a0 Amongst the musicians of the New Series are Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff, Kim Kashkashian, Gidon Kremer, Dennis Russell Davies, T\u00f5nu Kaljuste, Thomas Demenga, Anja Lechner, Rolf Lislevand, Carolin Widmann, the Hilliard Ensemble, Trio Mediaeval, John Potter, Alexei Lubimov, Momo Kodama, Anna Gourari, John Holloway, Michelle Makarski and Duo Gazzana. The New Series has also incorporated readings of poetry with Bruno Ganz and Christian Reiner.<\/p>\n
One of ECM\u2019s achievements has been to bring together players from different musical worlds, with striking results. Keith Jarrett and Gidon Kremer collaborated on what remains the definitive reading of P\u00e4rt\u2019s Fratres. The pairing of saxophonist Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble on Officium proved both an artistic and popular success and led to twenty years of touring together.\u00a0 Other transcultural collaborations include the 2017 meeting between Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem and jazz musicians Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette and Django Bates on Blue Maqams.<\/p>\n
Successive generations of musicians have grown up to listening to music on ECM, with second and third waves of players in Europe including Trygve Seim, Jakob Bro, Mathias Eick, Nik B\u00e4rtsch, Marcin Wasilewski, Colin Vallon, Thomas Str\u00f8nen, Tord Gustavsen, Julia H\u00fclsmann, Giovanni Guidi, Mette Henriette and others.<\/p>\n
The label continues to document creative musicians active in the US including Vijay Iyer, David Virelles, Craig Taborn, Chris Potter, Tim Berne, Mark Turner, Ches Smith, David Torn, Mat Maneri and many more.\u00a0 The work goes on.<\/p>\n
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