Ronin Rhythm Records brings its complete back catalog to the digital

download platform in collaboration with Iapetus Distribution/Unsung

Records.

Seven titles are being released digitally on the June 1, 2009 via most

major download stores such as iTunes, emusic, Amazon, etc.

Ronin Rhythm Records is a platform for new creative music covering New

Minimal, Funk and Ritual Groove Music. The label was founded in 2006 on

the base of pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch’s pre-ECM albums and is

dedicated to releasing music from stylistically-related young musical

acts, such as Sha’s Banryu and more artists to be announced.

Swiss pianist, composer and producer Bärtsch is known for his solo work

as well as his ensembles Mobile and Ronin.

“RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC, the title of my first CD, also points to the

fundamental concept of my musical thinking,” explains Bärtsch. “The

music shows a close affinity to architecturally organized space and is

governed by the principles of repetition and reduction as well as by

interlocking rhythms. A piece of music can be entered, inhabited like a

room. It moves forward and transforms through obsessive circular

movements, superimposition of different meters and micro-interplay. The

listeners attention is directed toward minimal variations and phrasing.

The band becomes an integral organism - like an animal, a habitat, an

urban space. One must think with ears and hands.”

“Repetitive rhythms are so fundamental to Bärtsch's aesthetic that he

even overdubs his Piano Solo album, one of six albums of ‘Ritual Groove

Music’… the fifth [Rea], is sublime, its simple, shifting rhythmic

figures building imperceptibly to gratifying climaxes.” Tom Hull, The

Village Voice

The following titles will be digitally released on June 1:

Sha's BANRYU, Chess Boxing Vol. 1 Nik Bärtsch's MOBILE, AER Nik

Bärtsch's RONIN, REA Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, LIVE Nik Bärtsch, HISHIRYO,

Piano Solo Nik Bärtsch's RONIN, RANDORI Nik Bärtsch's MOBILE, RITUAL

GROOVE

More label releases to be announced later in the year.

http://www.roninrhythmrecords.com  - http://www.roninrhythmrecords.com 

http://www.iapetus-media.com - http://www.iapetus-media.com