Continuum (Rainer Brüninghaus album) explained

Continuum
Type:Album
Artist:Rainer Brüninghaus
Cover:Continuum (Rainer Brüninghaus album).jpg
Released:1984
Recorded:September 1983
Studio:Talent Studio
Oslo, Norway
Genre:Jazz
Length:44:30
Label:ECM
Producer:Manfred Eicher
Chronology:Rainer Brüninghaus
Prev Title:Freigeweht
Prev Year:1980
Next Title:Shadows & Smiles
Next Year:1987

Continuum is an album by German keyboardist and composer Rainer Brüninghaus recorded in September 1983 and released on ECM the following year. The trio features trumpeter Markus Stockhausen and drummer Fredy Studer.[1]

Reception

AllMusic's Thom Jurek calls the album "meditative, inviting, full of rounded edges and melodies. It contains all the icy spaciousness of Manfred Eicher's trademark production, but the effect of Brüninghaus' compositions is warm, accessible even. They are open-ended and contemplative and explore musical questions lyrically. There is a valid argument to be made for the non-adventurousness of these works, and the fairly safe improvisations within them, but perhaps that's the point."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Rainer Brüninghaus

  1. "Strahlenspur" - 4:50
  2. "Stille" - 10:27
  3. "Continuum" - 4:00
  4. "Raga Rag" - 10:49
  5. "Schattenfrei" - 5:15
  6. "Innerfern" - 9:30

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1200/1266.php ECM discography
  2. Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed September 22, 2011