Aer (album)

Aer
Studio album by Nik Bärtsch's Mobile
Released	2004
Recorded	August 2003, Radiostudio Zürich
Genre	Jazz
Length	39:46
Label	Tonus Music TON 016
Producer	Nik Bärtsch
Nik Bärtsch chronology
Rea (2004) Aer (2004) Stoa (2006)

Aer is an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Mobile recorded in Zürich in 2003 and first released on the Tonus Music label in 2004.^[1]

Reception

On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "Mobile as a group has a slightly different focus than Ronin. The music has more of the "ritual" in it and less of the "groove." While repetition comes more to center stage, development is not forgotten, and static feeling that grows over time is balanced by addition, subtraction or mutation".^[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Nik Bärtsch

1. "Modul 29" - 8:01
2. "Modul 16" - 11:02
3. "Modul 18" - 4:48
4. "Modul 20" - 3:07
5. "Modul 26" - 2:06
6. "Modul 8_11" - 10:42

Personnel

• Nik Bärtsch — piano
• Sha - bass clarinet, alto saxophone
• Mats Eser - marimba, percussion
• Kaspar Rast - drums

References

1. Discogs album entry accessed February 17, 2014
2. Kopman, B., Nik Bartsch: The Road To Stoa, June 28, 2007