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The Playful Abstract

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Organelle 2. 4k Gently Peaceful 3. Cascading 4. Mos3 5. Eon 6. Shift 7. Bendings 8. Field 9. Flux

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KALI Trio: The Playful Abstract

Read "The Playful Abstract" reviewed by David Bruggink


Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm Records has become a go-to label for hypnotic groove enthusiasts. Established in 2006, its artists share a focus on uncommon time signatures and post-minimalist composition but interpret them in strikingly different ways. For example, Blaer leans towards the more restrained, stately and steady, building to powerful catharsis, similar to the Colin Vallon Trio; ...

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Pure

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hover; Gold I; Pure; Lotus; Gold II; Decay; Utopia; Gold III.

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Blaer: Pure

Read "Pure" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Swiss pianist Maja Nydegger sounds like a musical first cousin to Nik Bartsch. With his groups Ronin and Mobile, pianist Bartsch create intriguing ritual groove music and Zen funk--descriptors Bartsch has used for his style--stirred up with modern classical sounds. Nydegger, with her group Blaer, crafts a similar mode of expression on her fourth album, Pure, ...

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Plasma

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Tritium; Isblink; Sessapinae; Cocoro; Altaelva

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Ikarus: Plasma

Read "Plasma" reviewed by Geno Thackara


While they have an ambition worthy of their mythological namesake, this Ikarus is in no danger of melting and crashing after flying too high. Their exuberance is a little less wild yet, in its own way, no less adventurous. This quintet melds the sum of its minimalist parts into something transcendent yet always understated. Without needing ...

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Tritium

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Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 07:48

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Monbijou

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Intro; Mon Bijou; MM.

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Loom

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Shipol; Transitoriness; Dry Soul; Folding Space.

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Sha: Monbijou

Read "Monbijou" reviewed by Mike Jacobs


Aside from an existing appreciation of the saxophonist's creativity, it would be a mistake to approach Sha's Monbijou with any preconceptions. While this is a notion that has applied to his main group, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the tack Sha takes on this album is well removed from even that. Considering the integrated groupthink which ...


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