Randori (album)
{{Infobox album
| name = Randori
| type = Studio
| artist = Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
| cover = Randori (album).jpg
| alt =
| released = 2002
| recorded = December 10–12, 2001
| venue =
| studio = Tonus Music Labor, Bern
| genre = Jazz
| length = 78:11
| label = Tonus Music
TON 004
| producer = Nik Bärtsch's Ronin
| chronology = Nik Bärtsch
| prev_title = Ritual Groove Music
| prev_year = 2004
| next_title = Hishiryo: Piano Solo
| next_year = 2002
}}
Randori is an album by Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch's band Ronin recorded in Switzerland in 2002 and first released on the Tonus Music label.[http://www.discogs.com/Nik-B%C3%A4rtschs-Ronin-Randori/master/188580 Discogs album entry] accessed February 14, 2014
Reception
On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "Listening to this would be deliciously unbearable in a live setting since you might not know whether to open your arms to the infinite or bang your head, but maybe that is also the point".Kopman, B., [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=26180 Nik Bartsch: The Road To Stoa], June 28, 2007
Track listing
All compositions by Nik Bärtsch.
- "Modul 15" – 9:23
- "Modul 8_9 I" – 6:03
- "Modul 8_9 II" – 5:51
- "Modul 8_9 III" – 17:15
- "Modul 10" – 10:08
- "Modul 13" – 12:12
- "Modul 14" – 4:58
- "Modul 11" – 7:59
- "Modul 15_9" – 4:22
Personnel
- Nik Bärtsch – prepared piano, synthesizer, electric piano, drums
- Björn Meyer – bass
- Kaspar Rast – drums, udu
- Andi Pupato – shaker, Indian bells