Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Ritual Groove Music (2004)

RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC is the title of the band`s first CD and, at the same time, contains the essence of Nik Bärtsch`s musical thought. The purely acoustic music is full of surprising turns and bold combinations. The ingredients from funk, new classical music as well as elements of Japanese ritual music are combined to produce an exiting sound mixture, at times funky, at times ambient-like and relaxed and then again dramatically charged. It is a sound world of raw poetry, propelled by obsessive motion.

Nik Bärtsch, Prepared piano
Kaspar Rast, Ritual Groove Set
Mats Eser, Marimba, Percussion
Don Li, Altosax, Bassclarinet

Tracklist:
1.01 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 5 (8:56)
1.02 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 11 (9:21)
1.03 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 4 (3:54)
1.04 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 12 (5:42)
1.05 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 4 II (0:47)
1.06 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 2 (7:12)
1.07 - Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, Nik Bärtsch - Modul 12 II (8:02)