Live music review: ECM Weekend

Triskel, Cork

Triskel’s third annual mini-festival dedicated to the much admired German record label ECM may not have had quite the recognisably big-name draws of previous years. Yet in terms of the overall range of the programming, and the reach of the musicians taking part, it was perhaps the most inspiring and representative ECM Weekend yet.

It often required big ears and wide eyes to take much of it in — no more so than on the first night, which explored the fertile ground between ECM and film.