50 years of sound over silence: “Edition of modern music” by ECM Records

Once upon a time, in a distant galaxy on the island of Lindau, on Bodensee, the boy Manfred was born. A few light years passed, and he realized that there is power above silence and it is called sound … Time passed and the boy Manfred became the double bass player Manfred Eicher, who graduated from the Berlin Academy of Music. In 1969, in Munich, Manfred created an independent label specializing in contemporary jazz. The words written about him later in the Canadian jazz magazine CODA: “The Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence” became the motto of the ECM. Continue reading →