Rypdal's most energetic albums are on Polydor and the very first few ECM albums he recorded for the label. Haven't heard the other two, TBH.
Just thought I explain more what I meant by "sleep-inducing": music calm enough that one could be caught dozing off too... If the music in itself was boring , it would irritate me and I certainly wouldn't doze to it, I'd zap it away.
Don't get me wrong, it's not as if I'm attacking ECM (I have something like 15 to 20 albums of theirs, but none past 77 or 79), but the label's general output certainly turned towards calm and atmospheric music (to the point that some started calling it European Chamber Music) in the late 70's and 80's - precisely when Steve Tibbetts appeared.
That's all I (clumsily) meant by that
Bookmarks