Name: River Silver
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Release Date: 15th Jan 2016
Catalogue No: 4759393
Label: ECM
Length: 49 minutes

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Michel Benita: Back From The Moon

Work length5:49

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Michel Benita: River Silver

Work length4:37

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Michel Benita: I See Altitudes

Work length5:54

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Michel Benita: Off The Coast

Work length6:13

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Kathryn Tickell: Yeavering

Work length3:46

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Michel Benita: Toonari

Work length5:58

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Mieko Miyazaki: Hacihi Gatsu

Work length4:43

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Alnaes: Lykken

Work length6:02

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

Michel Benita: Snowed In

Work length6:21

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Ethics, Michel Benita (double bass), Philippe Garcia (drums), Eivind Aarset (guitar), Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn), Mieko Miyazaki (koto)
Recorded: 2015-04-12
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano

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After two exemplary ECM discs in the company of Andy Sheppard, Michel Benita has an album with his own group, Ethics, marking his label debut as a leader. The Ethics band is international, and the Algiers-born bassist leads a line-up comprised of a flugelhornist from Fribourg, Switzerland, a koto player from Tokyo, a guitarist from Drøbak, Norway, and a French drummer who once lived in Turkey as a member of the Istanbul Symphony. The group's music, correspondingly, flows - like the glistening river of the title - beyond borders. Alongside his own compositions and a piece by Mieko Miyazaki, Benita includes a tune from Northumbrian piper Kathryn Tickell and one from Norwegian composer and organist Eyvind Alnæs (1872-1932). A strongly lyrical tendency prevails, Mathieu Michel's graceful flugelhorn foregrounded, with koto, bass and drums interacting creatively at the band's core. Colours of folk and colours of jazz are blended in Michel Benita's writing, multi-idiomatic in a very natural way. Eivind Aarset's guitars and what Benita calls "organic electronics" gently envelop the music. The whole sound-picture is finely-realized in the responsive acoustics of the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, where 'River Silver' was recorded in April 2015, with Manfred Eicher producing. Benita favours long-term musical associations. Ethics has existed for five years already, with unchanged personnel and the players in the group have also collaborated in other contexts. Michel Benita and Eivind Aarset work regularly together in Andy Sheppard's quartet as on the critically-acclaimed album 'Surrounded By Sea' and the guitarist is also a member of a quintet led by Matthieu Michel. Matthieu has also worked with Michel Benita in bands large and small, while Benita and drummer Philippe Garcia have also often worked in tandem, and appear together on recordings of, for instance, trumpeter Erik Truffaz.

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