Nomad Songs

Nomad Songs is the 23rd studio album by the German world musician Stephan Micus. The album was released in June 2015 through ECM Records.[2] Like all of his albums, it was produced by Micus himself, unlike most of the other records on the ECM label, which are produced by label boss Manfred Eicher.

Nomad Songs
Studio album by Stephan Micus
Released	June 19, 2015
Recorded	2012-2014
Studio	MCM Studios
Genre	New-age
Length	55:56
Label	ECM Records ECM 2409
Producer	Stephan Micus
Stephan Micus chronology
Panagia (2013) Nomad Songs (2015) Inland Sea (2017)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[1]

Composition

Stephan Micus is always seeking to find new traditional instruments. He learned their history and how to play. Then he composes new music and plays all of these traditional instruments on albums. On Nomad Songs, he plays two new instruments, a genbri (a Moroccan lute) and a ndingo (a Botswanan lamellophone).[2]

Reception

John Kelman in his review for All About Jazz gave a four and a half stars and says that "Nomad Songs is, despite the perennially pensive and reflective nature of his entire body of work, a shift from the more conceptually focused Panagia, which was based around prayers to the Virgin Mary."[1]

Track listing

All music is composed by Stephan Micus[2].

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Everywhere, Nowhere"	4:40
2.	"Leila"	5:27
3.	"The Promise"	8:19
4.	"The Stars"	2:47
5.	"The Spring"	2:53
6.	"The Blessing"	4:30
7.	"The Feast"	5:04
8.	"Laughing at Thunder"	4:21
9.	"Sea of Grass"	5:01
10.	"The Dance"	6:12
11.	"Under the Chinar trees"	6:42
Total length:		55:56

Personnel

• Stephan Micus – ndingo, genbri, steel-string guitar, suling, voice, ney, rewab, rebab, twelve-string guitar, fourteen-string guitar, tin whistle, shakuhachi

References

1. "Nomad Songs (All About Jazz Review)". All About Jazz. Retrieved June 7, 2017.
2. "Nomad Songs". ECM New Series. Retrieved June 7, 2017.