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Endless Days | 
| Artist: Eberhard Weber
Label: Ecm
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 17436
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.6
UPC: 044001342028
EAN: 0044001342028
ASIN: B00005BG87
Release Date: May 21, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Concerto For Bass | | • | French Diary | | • | Solo For Bass | | • | Nuit Blanche | | • | Walk In The Garrigue | | • | Concerto For Piano | | • | Endless Days | | • | Last Stage Of A Long Journey |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
In Endless Days, his 11th release on ECM, Eberhard Weber has made one of his most poetically conceived and thoroughly realised statements yet for the label. There are two spacious solo pizzicato features by this German master of the electrobass but the overall emphasis is on ensemble playing, with a finely judged approach to matters of thematic texture, development and dynamics which is often redolent of the world of tonal 20th-century classical music. Paul McCandless sticks mainly to oboe, English horn and bass clarinet, turning to soprano only in a welcome update of the 1980 "Last Stage of A Long Journey", while Rainer Bruninghaus contributes both judicious sampled string sections and beautifully turned, refreshingly light-touch playing on what sounds like an exceptional piano. Returning to the studio after an absence of some 14 years, Michael DiPasqua brings sensitive and dramatic percussion to a programme that puts Weber the instrumentalist and Weber the composer in complete balance. --Michael Tucker
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| Customer Reviews:
 Simply unputdownable listening! October 4, 2002
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm listening to Endless Days as I write this. Parts of Weber's Concerto for Bass and Solo For Bass remind me of Stanley Clarke's 'Spanish Phases', although more optimistic in some of their major scale phrasing. DiPasqua's sensitive brushwork is delicate, while his fabulous 6/8 drumming is gorgeously spare in the upbeat while providing richly textured, energetic bass kicking. As always, he shows mastery and independence around the kit, while his percussion is both thoughtful and thunderous. This album moves me in a way I haven't experienced since Weber's 'Maurizius' on Later That Evening. Maybe it's because I'm hearing it via a surround sound setup; whatever, I've been admiring Weber & Co for over 20 years and this just gets better and better. Bruninghaus and McCandless are on top form, relaxed and enjoying their creations. Ok, one minor detraction could be that it's a tad overproduced, but again It could be the six-channel decoder: - every scrape, scratch and nuance is clearly audible. These musicians are masters and this album richly deserves success. Can Weber & Co. get any better?
On Form, great backing musicians, great recording. August 29, 2001
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Eberhard Weber is a bassist of the "flexible" school; not well-known for the finger-hammering pyrothechnics of Michael Manring or Jonas Hellborg, Eberhard Weber is a bassist using technology gently, modestly, respectfully. This CD has some great solos, a brass and reeds section (played entirely by Paul McCandless who quads-up on Oboe, English Horn, Clarinet and Soprano Saxophone). With ECM favourire Rainer Bruninghaus on Piano/Keyboards and Michael DiPasqua backing up the quintet, the result is a CD that is complex and quiet, elegant and thoughtful, spontaneous and yet littered with little musical passages and clever rhythmical vignettes."Endless Days" comprises a wonderful set of recordings that ECM house producer Manfred Eicher has outdone himself on. Its clear but not over crisp, there's masses of detail here with ambient mics picking up every stick and bow movement, (a scrape of the double bass' spike, a shuffle in the piano region, the turning of a page and so on...) its a very "live" sounding recording -- even though in reality it's nothing of the sort. Just when you kick back and think "okay this is what I'm getting" DiPasqua's "punctuating" style of accented drums and percussion thunder in the background causing some serious air movement. Some passages were shockingly deep -- when was the last time you were shocked by an intended sound coming from your systems? All in all this was a fantastic buy and ECM is a good label, fostering artists of integrity and obvious talent. This is certainly a record for the cold clear nights of an encroaching Autumn.
 Twilight Music June 4, 2001
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Once again we enter the sonorous world of Eberhard Weber! There is a stillness at the heart of this music that will not satisfy those eager for cascades of sound and nimble development of ideas. This is thoughtful, well executed music from someone who has extended the vocabulary of the bass and created a unique sound world. The contribution of Paul McCandless on various horns (including bass clarinet) is complementary, and pianist Rainer Bruninghaus continues his long association with Weber; he appears on all of Weber's best efforts. There are 8 well crafted tracks, including a reworking of 'The Last Stage of a Long Journey' (originally on LITTLE MOVEMENTS) and the doleful title track which is , like so much of Weber's music, serious, delicate and gorgeously mellow. Aficionados need not hesitate. Newcomers will find this a good place to start, before going on to discover the delights of YELLOW FIELDS, LITTLE MOVEMENTS and THE COLOURS OF CHLOE.
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