besides the objective quality of the music and musicians, I admire the deep knowledge, curiosity, and philosophical approach to the composition, performance, and life in general. Great series! See you in concert soon
@@teenagewasteland11 🙏🏻🫵🏻 a good question usually: what is behind an expression? To play what you play it helps to be unconditionally clear about it. We can question it afterwards again 😉🫵🏻🙏🏻👂🏻🎶
This series is very beautiful and enlightening. I am intrigued by your connections between the music and your practice of Aikido (which I know very little about). Thank you (all) for the music and for the time and effort to make these videos.
@@conceptofdreadnought Thank you for that feedback - encouraging to hear that the sharing of the context and background creates a deeper connection and understanding. The ongoing and sustainable process is the most fragile thing. You give us a good energy for that. 🙏🏻🫵🏻🎶
Happy New Year Nik... I can't wait to see you guys on March 2nd in Montreal, I already have my tickets and am so looking forward to seeing you play live !
@@mcorre16 wow, top, thank you. Holon was a very important second ECM album, still the most popular. So enjoy your 30ies now. I was in these during Holon times. 😉🫵🏻🙏🏻
22 дня назад
Great episode, again! I really like the short musician portraits and the modle break-down. Would love to hear you talk about how you guys hold the paradox of stillness while at the same time being in constant motion without collapsing the paradox towards one of its aspects.
Thank you for the feedback. The balance between agility and stability is to guide everything from the center. The balance is the key. You need stillness in the energy and opposite. ⚖️🌀🦋🌪️
21 день назад
@@nikbaertsch Thanks a lot, Nik!I like your notion of 'the center'. I frequently work with leadership teams on their paradox of being in charge and at the same time not in control. But they often collapse the paradox and act as if were and either or decision. I wonder what your notion of 'the center' would be for them?
Amazing post, thanks for sharing. Being in charge but not in control is a huge topic. It opens a whole book. This tension creates a huge risk for frustration, revenge, misleading etc. In performing we need to keep that balance also by knowing our limits and how deep the trust to the other musicians on stage is. Paradoxically you can win like this more collective control resp. „shaping the situation“ although you give more individual control away. The intuitive „decision-tempo“ of the musical organism is faster then the individual intellectual control of the single player. „Intuition“ means here the combination of experience, skills and tempo. We can compare it to the martial art Aikido where you want to have stability and flexibility at the same time. So you need to be able to loose control to really get in charge with your response to an attack. It‘s called „awase“, blending, becoming one with your opponent to take care of both with the opponent’s energy. Paradox but logic.
21 день назад
@@nikbaertsch Thanks a lot for your insightful response, Nik! I really like your point about increasing 'collective control' by giving away individual control. It's not easy to describe these subtle psychological and relational phenomena adequately in words, I find. My claim would be that any sense of being able to control outcomes is an illusion. All we can ever do is have clear outcome intentions and then work with what is actually going on. Like in chess or tennis. Or music? Very difficult to do for managers who commit to the delivery certain results. Perhaps Awase could indeed be a way forward. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated!!
true, in our music intension creates new collective perspectives and new fast „non-intellectual“ but logic moves, but everybody needs to respect the „game rules“ - a bit like in sports.
@@dM-ij1we cool, that’s an important record since it launched a new series of still relevant compositions, especially 32, 35 and 36 which we still play. 33 and 38_17 are also important but not in the band‘s recent repertoire.
In MY perfect universe, this is the TV that everybody watches. Loving the new album!
@@livy1962 thank you. By watching and sharing you bring us all closer to this inspiring TV idea! 🫵🏻🙏🏻
Love this series. Inspirational!! Love Kaspar’s comment about his snare drum at the start!! 🤣
@@JonGibbsPhotography 🙏🏻🥁👌🏻😉🎶
Pure LOVE !
@@agnieszkagorgon4156 🙌🏻🎶
besides the objective quality of the music and musicians, I admire the deep knowledge, curiosity, and philosophical approach to the composition, performance, and life in general. Great series! See you in concert soon
@@teenagewasteland11 🙏🏻🫵🏻 a good question usually: what is behind an expression? To play what you play it helps to be unconditionally clear about it. We can question it afterwards again 😉🫵🏻🙏🏻👂🏻🎶
So friggin good. You clearly understand your craft as deeply as humanly possible.
@@ErezMarom true. Art should be anchored in life to make the art production solid. 🎶🫵🏻🙏🏻
This series is very beautiful and enlightening. I am intrigued by your connections between the music and your practice of Aikido (which I know very little about). Thank you (all) for the music and for the time and effort to make these videos.
@@conceptofdreadnought Thank you for that feedback - encouraging to hear that the sharing of the context and background creates a deeper connection and understanding. The ongoing and sustainable process is the most fragile thing. You give us a good energy for that. 🙏🏻🫵🏻🎶
Happy New Year Nik... I can't wait to see you guys on March 2nd in Montreal, I already have my tickets and am so looking forward to seeing you play live !
@@garaughty Fantastic, thank you. An inspiring & creative 25 to you too. Stay stoic, musical & confident! C U SOON 🎶🫵🏻🙏🏻
Very nice and rare music. Zappa was making the foundations of this type of composing.
Humm, stravinsky, Steve reich, Terry ryley, Christian vander, coltrane
Zappa in this périod was more rock and blues
i love u guys, when i disvorered holon i was 16 yearss old and i alaways will listen to u guys!
@@mcorre16 wow, top, thank you. Holon was a very important second ECM album, still the most popular. So enjoy your 30ies now. I was in these during Holon times. 😉🫵🏻🙏🏻
Great episode, again! I really like the short musician portraits and the modle break-down. Would love to hear you talk about how you guys hold the paradox of stillness while at the same time being in constant motion without collapsing the paradox towards one of its aspects.
Thank you for the feedback. The balance between agility and stability is to guide everything from the center. The balance is the key. You need stillness in the energy and opposite. ⚖️🌀🦋🌪️
@@nikbaertsch Thanks a lot, Nik!I like your notion of 'the center'. I frequently work with leadership teams on their paradox of being in charge and at the same time not in control. But they often collapse the paradox and act as if were and either or decision. I wonder what your notion of 'the center' would be for them?
Amazing post, thanks for sharing. Being in charge but not in control is a huge topic. It opens a whole book. This tension creates a huge risk for frustration, revenge, misleading etc. In performing we need to keep that balance also by knowing our limits and how deep the trust to the other musicians on stage is. Paradoxically you can win like this more collective control resp. „shaping the situation“ although you give more individual control away. The intuitive „decision-tempo“ of the musical organism is faster then the individual intellectual control of the single player. „Intuition“ means here the combination of experience, skills and tempo. We can compare it to the martial art Aikido where you want to have stability and flexibility at the same time. So you need to be able to loose control to really get in charge with your response to an attack. It‘s called „awase“, blending, becoming one with your opponent to take care of both with the opponent’s energy. Paradox but logic.
@@nikbaertsch Thanks a lot for your insightful response, Nik! I really like your point about increasing 'collective control' by giving away individual control. It's not easy to describe these subtle psychological and relational phenomena adequately in words, I find. My claim would be that any sense of being able to control outcomes is an illusion. All we can ever do is have clear outcome intentions and then work with what is actually going on. Like in chess or tennis. Or music? Very difficult to do for managers who commit to the delivery certain results. Perhaps Awase could indeed be a way forward. Thanks again for taking the time to respond. Much appreciated!!
true, in our music intension creates new collective perspectives and new fast „non-intellectual“ but logic moves, but everybody needs to respect the „game rules“ - a bit like in sports.
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Genius
@@frankh9600 🫵🏻🙏🏻👀👂🏻🎶
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@@yochanangross2933 🎶🖤🙌🏻
Love this version of 45. ❤❤❤❤ Does it it exist elsewhere in it’s entirety?
@@dM-ij1we yes, we release the full EXIL 45 video next week…😉🙌🏻🙏🏻
Thanks Nik, look forward to it. 🙂 Currently listening to Stoa and loving that too.
@@dM-ij1we cool, that’s an important record since it launched a new series of still relevant compositions, especially 32, 35 and 36 which we still play. 33 and 38_17 are also important but not in the band‘s recent repertoire.
Uplifting
@@WCruttenden ⬆️🎶🧠🙌🏻
Welches Modul erklingt da kurz im Abspann?
@@teilzeittrommler Modul 15, released of Randori und Live (Ronin Rhythm Records). Ein Klassiker, 4/4 gegen 5/4. 👌🏻🎶
extrem funky, James Brown und Bootsy Collins würden sich freuen!
@@teilzeittrommler klar, die Herren sind ein Einfluss, und Prince, the Meters, Bill Withers (drummer Hames Gadson), Meshell Ndegeocello…
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@@martinbalestrini954 👍🏻🙏🏻