Randori (album) explained

Randori
Type:	Studio
Artist:	Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Cover:	Randori (album).jpg
Released:	2002
Recorded:	December 10–12, 2001
Studio:	Tonus Music Labor, Bern
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	78:11
Label:	Tonus Music TON 004
Producer:	Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
Chronology:	Nik Bärtsch
Prev Title:	Ritual Groove Music
Prev Year:	2004
Next Year:	2002

Randori is an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in Switzerland in 2002 and first released on the Tonus Music label.^[1]

Reception

On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "Listening to this would be deliciously unbearable in a live setting since you might not know whether to open your arms to the infinite or bang your head, but maybe that is also the point".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Nik Bärtsch.

1. "Modul 15" – 9:23
2. "Modul 8_9 I" – 6:03
3. "Modul 8_9 II" – 5:51
4. "Modul 8_9 III" – 17:15
5. "Modul 10" – 10:08
6. "Modul 13" – 12:12
7. "Modul 14" – 4:58
8. "Modul 11" – 7:59
9. "Modul 15_9" – 4:22

Personnel

• Nik Bärtsch – prepared piano, synthesizer, electric piano, drums
  • • Björn Meyer – bass Kaspar Rast – drums, udu Andi Pupato – shaker, Indian bells

Notes and References

1. http://www.discogs.com/Nik-B%C3%A4rtschs-Ronin-Randori/master/188580 Discogs album entry
2. Kopman, B., Nik Bartsch: The Road To Stoa, June 28, 2007