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facing west Nov 14 2019 at 6:15 PM	Influential ECM sound engineer, Jan Erik Kongshaug, has passed away. The Times obit is here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/12/arts/music/jan-erik-kongshaug-dead.html There’s a Kickstarter campaign to do a documentary on him, which would be pretty cool. He apparently worked on over 4,000 recordings. Perhaps As Falls Witchita, So Falls Witchita Falls is one of his signature achievements. I’m pretty sure he influenced Pat, who must have learned his incredible production skills from the best. I didn’t know that JEK was also a guitarist and had recorded a couple of trio records. Anyway, no question, the ECM sound is monumentally influential in the 21st century. And JEK helped create that sound.
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facing west Nov 15 2019 at 4:39 PM	Checking out The Other World now--sounds fresh! The more I think about it, the more it seems JEK and the ECM sound are incredibly influential right now. Richard Williams’ great book, The Blue Moment: Kind of Blue and the Making of Modern Music, has a chapter devoted to it. Also, guys like Matthew Halsall seem to have absorbed the sound. Absorbed the whole aesthetic, even.
Oystein Nov 15 2019 at 2:57 PM	Jan Erik Kongshaug was a true ECM legend, and he produced The White Album where he gave Pat the guitar sound he used for many years after.
naut Nov 14 2019 at 9:24 PM	Thanks for the update on Kongshaug, fw. I have his records "All These Years" and "The Other World," both of which are very good.
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