{"product_id":"memento","title":"Memento","description":"\u003cp\u003eMemento is the debut duo recording by American pianist Marilyn Crispell and Swedish bassist Anders Jormin, released on March 20, 2026 on ECM Records (catalogue number ECM 2867). The album was recorded in July 2025 at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano, Switzerland, engineered by Stefano Amerio and produced by Manfred Eicher — the ECM founder whose close involvement with both artists stretches back decades. Crispell, a Creative Music Studio alumna designated a 2025 NEA Jazz Master, spent ten years as a central figure in Anthony Braxton's quartet and has been one of the most distinctive voices in avant-garde and freely improvised music since the 1980s; Jormin, equally steeped in the ECM aesthetic, is best known for long partnerships with Bobo Stenson, Charles Lloyd, and Tomasz Stańko. Although this is their first formal duo collaboration, the musical kinship between the two runs deep, and ECM Reviews describes the encounter as feeling \"more essential than lineage or style\" — less a collaboration than a recognition between two orbits finally aligning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross its 11 tracks and 38 minutes, the album weaves original compositions and four freely created improvisations around the central themes of memory and loss. The four opening pieces — \"For the Children,\" \"Dialogue,\" \"Embracing the Otherness,\" and \"Contemplation in D\" — are entirely improvised, with \"For the Children\" described by Jormin as a meditation on innocents caught in global conflicts from Sudan to Gaza to Ukraine, establishing the album's quietly compassionate tone. The composed material includes the three-part \"Three Shades of a House\" (Morning and Evening), \"Song,\" \"Beach at Newquay,\" \"The Dark Light,\" and the closing \"Dragonfly\" — a dedication to bassist Gary Peacock. Crispell also performs unaccompanied on the intimate title track. Jazz Trail praised the album's \"yearning atmospheres where spontaneity and artistic sensitivity open the door to broader emotional landscapes,\" while All About Jazz described it as \"a lasting thing of beauty\" — an album of rare stillness and patience from two artists who have spent decades earning the right to play this quietly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"CD \/ Album","offer_id":53525144469818,"sku":"38060","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-27_at_2.38.49_PM.jpeg?v=1782288152","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/memento","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}