Your favorite obscure ECM album

Contact Trio, New Marks is an amazing score for anyone who apprecites Mahavishnu Orch., King Crimson, Brand X, or insrtumental Zappa. Superb recording quality, lots of nimble angular almost deranged playing from some incredibly skilled guys. Good luck finding it.

Eberhard Weber, The Following Morning. Not as many RPM's as Contact Trio, but it feels like a dream that you don't want to wake up from. A couple of the compositions on this one are impossible to forget.

Lookout Farm. Pretty interesting Jazz rock record that has a certain restraint and atmosphere that I haven't heard on other Liebman or Abercrombie records.

1st Everyman Band.Twisted exploding Dolphy cartoons w/ lots of razor sharp David Torn guitar.

Louis Sclavis, Acoustic Quartet, L'Affrontment des Pretendants,and Les Violences de Rameau. All 3 have plenty of fire and are very well put together. Lots of detailed interlocking parts are executed by exceptionally peceptive players.

Great picks Benthar.

Terje Rypdal 'Waves', Eberhard Weber 'Silent Feet'.

Another vote for Tibbetts "YR". Kieth Jarrett " Your Song". How is the new Eberhard Weber?

For obscure my vote goes to "Jimmy Giuffre 3, 1961". This was pressed in Germany in 1992 (ECM 1438).

I love "Oregon" (ECM 1258), which is a USA pressing, released in 1983.

Most of all, I am a huge fan of Steve Tibbetts work, and love "YR", (ECM 1355), which has already mentioned here.

I've corresponded with Steve Tibbetts on several occasion in order to track down all of his releases. He often replies with postcards, illustrated with dinosaurs which I thought was pretty amusing.

I have all of his ECM releases and would like to share a little known fact. His work "YR" as released 1980 PolyGram / ECM is a second generation version.

The original was on Frammis Enterprises Records, produced in Minneapolis, MN. This original has a note of thanks to Ralph Karsten of Atmasphere for his help. Ralph lives there and produces Atmasphere from his shop in Minnesota.

If you can find the original, Identified by Steve's own illustration of a Sphinx with horse body standing near a strange outer space looking mass of organic material. This is known by collectors as the "Night Sky" cover.

Artists and instruments not included in the ECM negotiations, are deleted. The ECM remix is different in both musical content and quality. (I should have stated, the original is LP only, never released on CD).

Thanks for a great topic!