Nik Bärtsch's RONIN: MODUL 58 live

MODUL 58 live at EXIL Zurich 2018
Track published by Ronin Rhythm Productions.
As studio track also available on the album AWASE (ECM 2018)
Album on Band Camp: roninrhythmrecords.bandcamp.c...
Bandshop: www.nikbaertsch.com/shop/
Album on iTunes, Apple Music, Music, JPC, Meiaa Markt, Saturn, Spotify, Deezer, Qobuz: ecm.lnk.to/7_jRJ
COMPOSITION: NIK BÄRTSCH
VIDEO by Jürg Egli, Analyze
additional camera work by Marc David Nathan/Group Galore
edited by Samuel Weniger
recorded by Lars Dölle
mixed and mastered by Tobias Stritt
NIK BÄRTSCH'S RONIN:
NIK BÄRTSCH: PIANO
SHA: BASSCLARINET, ALTO SAX
KASPAR RAST: DRUMS
THOMY JORDI: BASS
LIGHTDESIGN: DANIEL EATON
A RONIN RHYTHM PRODUCTION (2018)
www.nikbaertsch.com/

[@edoardosella4188]

Saw these guys a few weeks ago in Milan at Jazzmi. The day after the gig i woke up with a slight pain on my back.. it became more and more intense as the days passed by. Turns out it was just a pair of angel wings that i grew after witnessing such a majestic live performance. As i'm writing this comment i'm sitting in heaven right next to the lord

[@nikbaertsch]

🌀🎶🕊🙏

[@daseinoseven4514]

Nik’s smile says everything we need.... What an amazingly fun composition. Thank you!!!

[@nikbaertsch]

Lowfreq13 MD Thank you too for sharing the spirit!

[@fabioricore]

From repetition emerge variation. Such a powerful self-explanatory track.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks for that precision: "

[@walkabou5]

Saw them at Ronnie Scott's last night. I was in the front row. Fantastic experience, stunning performance. Look forward to seeing them again.

[@nikbaertsch]

thanks for joining and for your feedback! 🫵🏻🎶🖤

[@tictocbang7443]

They put on the best show I have ever seen, and can't wait to see them again in a few months!

[@herculesrockefeller8969]

I think I'm responsible for 53,000 views myself! Such amazing conception, and a seemingly effortless execution make this my favorite NB video. Thank you RONIN!

[@nikbaertsch]

Wow, thank you Hercules, a pleasure to share the music with such a dedicated person. Stay inspired and creative!

[@Charlyfromthenuclearcity]

Thanks to the guy who introduced me to this music when Ronin released Holon. I was 15 and this music has changed the way I listen and to and write music forever.

[@nikbaertsch]

A pleasure to be part of your music development, thanks to you and your friend!

[@Yetipfote]

@@nikbaertsch You were part of my development too! :) Thank you for your music!

[@nikbaertsch]

@@Yetipfote Thank you too!!

[@billstrohler]

I am 50 and just discovered this.

[@borgassi]

I hope to see you soon in Berlin @nikbaertsch

[@nikbaertsch]

working on something 😉 …

[@Gurkenklemme]

Ich liebe diese Module. Tatsächlich perfekt zum Konzentrieren für mich, deshalb höre ich die Musik seit meinem Abitur und jetzt immer beim Lernen. Bisher hat es mich immer sehr gut begleitet. Man ist perfekt im Flow!

[@nikbaertsch]

Cooles Statement: die Musik soll aufladen, fokussieren und trotzdem Platz lassen - Respect for the listener‘s mind.

[@martingerup]

When waking up in middle of the night, I use some of the modules as a kind of meditation. Put on some headphones, play the piano and get back in bed as soon as 'ruhe' is in my body and mind again.

[@juandelvallepicatoste4613]

Impresionante! 😳

[@ThePapabull]

This is such incredible music and music making. It delivers peak musical experiences by the bucket load, very powerful stuff....... just blumin' awesome. FULLSTOP !!!

[@nikbaertsch]

thank you!

[@florianbitterlinderfilmema264]

😮das isch krasse shit! 😮 es geht voll ab und zieht zeitgleich eine Ruhe mit sich. als würde es aus der Ruhe entstehen.❤ never heard before 🎉

[@nikbaertsch]

top Statement: Ruhe im Groove, Fokus & Ruhe durch Energie. 🙌🏻🎶

[@mpurbasha]

SO good! Was an absolute pleasure to hear you guys live.

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏🙌🎶

[@glynnwadeson5605]

As always, superb,music to lose yourself in...have had the pleasure of seeing Nick and band live in London and they really rock .....great to see new album out

[@nikbaertsch]

thanks again for your interest and sharing! 🎶🙌

[@4thatsok]

Sprachlos! Danke den vier Musiker für das Erlebnis!

[@nikbaertsch]

Danke für Dein Sprachspiel und Loslassen in den Flow.

[@tokernizer]

This is divine.

[@nikbaertsch]

5 against 7 from heaven 😉🙌🏻

[@mickz87]

It gets better each time I listen to it! Thanks Nik

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏🙌🎶⚡️

[@gustavomarques4444]

Como eu não conheci o som desse quarteto antes! Que som fabuloso! Música maravilhosa e o vídeo ficou muito bom!

[@ErezMarom]

Fantastic and wonderful!

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏👂🏻🙌

[@fomenk0s]

Потрясающе!!!

[@heikeschmitts4665]

Great ...level ... for my heart .. thank you very much .

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you for being part of the inspiration chain!

[@dummydsc]

simultaneously piano + drums accents are beatiful!

[@nikbaertsch]

precisely 🎹🥁🎶🙌

[@paradxxicalkxrruptixn7296]

Nothing beats this. This is it; *Music*

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you for sharing your passion for music! We are happy to be part of that consciousness.

[@ulfgropper8046]

blows my mind! What a wonderful trip! No Sequenzers - all human groove! Great! Thank you for this fantastic Music!!

[@nikbaertsch]

true - played means in flow…🎶🙌🥁🌀

[@ulfgropper8046]

@@nikbaertsch Really true! And not so easy to get! I'm often wondering about the refuses of my mind to try new things and to learn. At the time it's getting better and I learn to love the "Beginner-Mode". For me an existential thing. And nowadays more and more source of a blissed live...

[@aistbal]

Oh! Nice! You released a new album!

[@svensafarow2368]

Incredible performance! Great mood! A true musical landscape!

[@nikbaertsch]

thank you, very nice description of the dramaturgy: mood flows in a journey through the musical landscape🙌🎶

[@animamundi9652]

Best band in the world period

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you for this immediate feedback, we ar working on a new program - stay connected and inspired!

[@BAwesomeDesign]

Serious hand independence near 12:00 min mark on piano! Damn.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks for precise listening! Alway working independence! Makes also the brain free ;-)

[@ChrisKDrummer]

Excellent quality video, and signature song on new album Awase!

[@nikbaertsch]

👉🙏🙌🎶🟦

[@evangeloschristodoulou8091]

Μεγαλείο, και μετά το 14.00 γίνεται το έλα να δεις!!!.... ο Nik Bärtsch είναι θεός!! Humbled for life! Το Awase είναι ίιιιιιισως το καλύτερό τους

[@katrinczerny8447]

Das ist absolut genial !

[@nikbaertsch]

💜🎶🙌

[@Howard_Wright]

Phenomenal!

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏👂🏻🎶

[@HiFilurar]

Trascendental, mediative, ritualistic. I don't know how else to describe it. It sure is unique and gives me something that I think only one other band manages to do: Sonar, which also happens to be swiss, can't be a coincidence?

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks for sharing your view, the Sonar guys we of course know, they even have a record on our label: www.nikbaertsch.com/ronin-rhythm-records.html

[@remydelaroque478]

Pure Genius!

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏👂🏻🎶🙌

[@markdarnell614]

RONIN is a fascinating Project: Minimalist Process music. Sometimes I am in the mood for it, and other times - once you've figure-out the "Game", and the Rhythmic Language...I start really longing for a Compelling Melody!

[@markdarnell614]

For me - This is The Guy! ...Pedro Melo Alves, and his ensemble - OMNIAE! No "Games" here! Wonderful, exploratory Music from Lisbon, Portugal. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aYHOqqmgfcqnd7c

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you! We leave space for your own melody in your head… Stay inspired and creative! 🙏🎶

[@nikbaertsch]

thanks for the link!

[@markdarnell614]

@@nikbaertsch - you are most welcome. Please, stay safe in these times...so you can create that PERFECT Melody!

[@SZTILER]

I don't know why but it's brilliant! It was today that I discovered you by chance.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks, "by chance" is always a chance! Happy to appear on your time horizon..

[@frankalfar]

Love this came here from and editorial in Modern Drummer and subsequent article on the drummer Kaspar Rast.

[@nikbaertsch]

cool! Brilliant article and finally the respect for Kaspar Rast, thank you! 🙏🥁🎶

[@laoulaou2137]

Απιστευτος respect!!!!

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you, respect to you too!

[@CarlosRibeiroMedeiros]

This theme was exactly the one that makes me become in love with your music! And then I bought Awase and my ears and my brain changed to accommodate this hypnosis subliminal audio state of mind. 3 years after, I still have the same feeling... See you in Caldas da Rainha, this October.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks again for sharing and joining! 🎹🎶

[@lumotroph]

Incredible rhythm

[@nikbaertsch]

7 agains 5, meeting in between the cycle...

[@wilstonoreo]

Steve Reich meets Jazz, awesome stuff

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏👍🎶 Check also MODUL 35 if you like this combination.

[@XISTH]

God I love this music

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏🙌🎶🥁⚡️

[@sakules]

so so amazing. hope to see you some time in Chile. Or maybe i should go to Zurich

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks! Yes, join us here: www.exil.cl but it would be a great pleasure to finally come to Chile! 🙌🎶

[@kevinmitchell8650]

Great build of tension release call and response.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks Kevin, very well said! This is a major thing in the dramaturgy of my compositions and the band work. Stay inspired!

[@jaro3301]

Super light

[@nikbaertsch]

super tight…😉🙌🎶

[@NorbertHinterberger]

Quality jazz: finally the jazzers are back in rhythm in the redundancies in the riffs - because that's the only way to capture the tremendous archaic tensions of even the modern world of life. Full of ideas, the whole band - with physically swinging offs, the art of the break.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks Norbert, your words show very precisely a basic fact: "to capture the tremendous archaic tensions of even the modern world of life." Essential to find here a fascinating and fruitful balance... Stay stoic and h

[@joellebianchi4063]

entre méditation et obsession. Quelle beauté essentielle !

[@nikbaertsch]

Remarque précise! 🎶🌀🙌

[@joellebianchi4063]

@@nikbaertsch fruit d'une écoute attentive et d'un ressenti profond. Merci pour ces vibrations bienfaisantes. Quand l'esthétique et la spiritualité fusionnent le résultat est presque magique !

[@bladome]

great

[@nikbaertsch]

🙏👂🏻🎶

[@floudzero]

This is absolutely amazing. For all those who added negative dizlike. Why spend time doing it. You don't like it than move on to what moves you and listen to it. Why use so much energy being negative. Find what you love and use some positive energy you will feel better in life.

[@nikbaertsch]

I agree with your view Yury, thanks, 🙏🕊🎶

[@bisbinix]

a masterpiece, and so underrated. Where are you Nik? Warum hört man nichts mehr von dir?

[@nikbaertsch]

still working! And every Monday live www.yourstage.live from our club EXIL.

[@frederiqueleduc184]

Excellent !

[@charlescarqueijo3652]

It's sounds like Robert Fripp's moto perpetuo. Awesome!!

[@nikbaertsch]

Interesting, did not know this one…thanks! 🙏🙌🎶

[@anatecar8326]

It is such a bliss that you will perform in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, at Jazz in the Park !

[@nikbaertsch]

See you in Cluj!

[@anatecar8326]

Yes, extremely enthustiastic! Without sounding too cliche, but your music worked/works for me like an excellent tool, medium for meditation, patience, endurance and...clarity, especially in the process of writing. So, I guess I have learned to find the vitality of the transformative potential of repetitive rythms, that mixture between music/life, routine/ritual, boredom/ transgression of boredom.Hope you will have an experience full of joy, during the concert in Cluj!

[@dianaelenahughineata1671]

If I would have found them earlier... :(

[@campaudj]

Sorry got tied up in my own music. Dig a little Nik Bartsch. Unreal.

[@justadrummervienna]

that drummer is amazing :)

[@nikbaertsch]

Kaspar Rast on 🥁🎶

[@AidaKhorsandi]

Please come to Toronto!!!

[@nikbaertsch]

Would be a great pleasure - we are working on coming back to Canada…

[@AidaKhorsandi]

@@nikbaertsch Thank you! Looking forward!

[@ricasllfrr2443]

Strange grooves...i'm don't know how neither where, but it hits so good!

[@nikbaertsch]

easy 9 against 5 in flow 😉🎶〰️

[@BorZification]

I am just sending a link to my group of musicians for a reference track to our composition.My friend introduced me to your group a while ago and i am really happy that he did.All best!

[@nikbaertsch]

Thank you! Can you resend the link please. Could not open it… A pleasure to share music and spirit! 🎶

[@BorZification]

@@nikbaertsch Thank you a lot! i will send it to you when its finished ...i am still in process of editing.All best, Bor

[@BorZification]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/g6O9c6iCma2Ir6M Here is the link, the particular song that i composed and was influenced by your music starts at 38:40 all best!

[@nikbaertsch]

@@BorZification Thank you, Coll shift in the rhythm section! Stay inspired and creative!

[@BorZification]

@@nikbaertsch thank you! means a lot!

[@BBCebola]

Music from an orhtogonal universe...

[@nikbaertsch]

true!!! 🙏🎶🌌

[@nils1]

Unfassbar großartig. Complicated Shit aber so tight. Geradezu meditativ, obwohl mitzählen schon nicht klappt.

[@nikbaertsch]

Thanks! Wunderbar, dass Du zuhörte und dabei bist. Zähl mal 7 oder 5 oder beides! Simplex music: simples but complex. Stay inspired!

[@pierluigisalsano172]

Mi sono permesso di campionare 5 secondi Mi piace molto la vostra musica.... Grazie e Ps non a scopi di lucro

[@nikbaertsch]

Grazie a te!

[@stefanbreitenfeld720]

I suppose they rehearse at least twice a month ...

[@MaksKovtun]

Хорошие головы в лучах софитов дарят фантастические звуки!)))

[@JesusFreke]

/me picks his jaw up off the floor

[@ZTravelDream]

Why am I having such a difficult time trying to follow “the one” ?

[@emiliocastilhopiano8631]

you are supposed to

[@BAwesomeDesign]

Syncopation.

[@nikbaertsch]

there are several “ones”, that’s the idea in a cycle of 7 against 5 with also bigger formal organizations. 😉🙏🙌🎶

[@ingmarslazdins2853]

Mr. Nick: Why piano rhythm always go down? I mean notes - starts higher and triplet plays down; tu-du-du. tu-du-du (repeat endlessly). Have You tried another way around?

[@nikbaertsch]

the other way around it would be more conventional because you hear the low note usually as the root, especially in the bass. 5 against 7 shifts more orientations when the pattern is simple but not used conventionally - if you know what I mean? It’s actually du-du-tu on the base of a 16th and eights note subdivision in 5 and 7. 😉🎶

[@ingmarslazdins2853]

@@nikbaertsch Endless classic. Kudos!

[@FinnBaygan]

why are so many scandinavians bald?

[@nikbaertsch]

Scandinavians? This is the result of a full quality Swiss Voodoo clockwork, every week to see at the music club EXIL in Zürich, Switzerland in the middle of Europe... Visit us! You will be our guest of honor (from what country?)

[@vadym1316]

Robot's jazz

[@nikbaertsch]

A jazz robot would probably be easier to control than a band - too easy🤔🎶🤖

[@puppetofmasters]

Only 91 likes to go for a 58:1 like to dislke ratio! :D

[@vadym1316]

7:57 this look when bass play with one millisecond delay

[@nikbaertsch]

true, not super tight on that moment 🤔🎶

[@progrock3214]

This makes me think of the music of Steve Reich goes jazz-rock ♥

[@nikbaertsch]

or funk...thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts