| Ritual Groove Music | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Nik Bärtsch's Mobile |
| Cover: | Ritual Groove Music.jpg |
| Released: | 2004 |
| Recorded: | September 2000, Radiostudio Zürich |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Length: | 43:51 |
| Label: | Tonus Music TON 013 |
| Producer: | Nik Bärtsch |
| Chronology: | Nik Bärtsch |
| Next Title: | Randori |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Ritual Groove Music is the debut album by Swiss pianist, composer, record producer and author r Nik Bärtsch's band Mobile recorded in Switzerland in 2000 and first released on the Tonus Music label in 2004.[1]
The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos called it "A tip-of-the-iceberg recording, in the figurative and literal sense, one can speculate this is a mere beginning, almost child's play, for what Bärtsch and his crew have in store for the future of his compelling and singularly original music".[2] On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "For the most part, the tracks sound spliced together, which only further enhances the trance-like effect the music can have. The album thus sounds like a show with terrific pacing, bringing the listener up and down by changing parameters such as overall pitch and speed of the figures".[3]
All compositions by Nik Bärtsch