{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = Ritual Groove Music | type = Album | artist = Nik Bärtsch's Mobile | cover = Ritual Groove Music.jpg | alt = | released = 2004 | recorded = September 2000, Radiostudio Zürich | venue = | studio = | genre = Jazz | length = 43:51 | label = Tonus Music<br><small>TON 013</small> | producer = Nik Bärtsch | chronology = Nik Bärtsch | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Randori | next_year = 2006 }}
'''''Ritual Groove Music''''' is the debut album by Swiss pianist, composer, record producer and author r Nik Bärtsch's band Mobile recorded in Switzerland in 2000 and first released on the Tonus Music label in 2004.<ref name="Discogs">[http://www.discogs.com/Nik-B%C3%A4rtschs-Mobile-Ritual-Groove-Music/release/1747245 Discogs album entry] accessed 12 February 2014</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1Score = {{rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/>}} The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos called it "A tip-of-the-iceberg recording, in the figurative and literal sense, one can speculate this is a mere beginning, almost child's play, for what Bärtsch and his crew have in store for the future of his compelling and singularly original music".<ref name="Allmusic">Nastos, M. G,, [http://www.allmusic.com/album/ritual-groove-music-mw0001447299 Allmusic Review] accessed 12 February 2014</ref> On All About Jazz Budd Kopman noted "For the most part, the tracks sound spliced together, which only further enhances the trance-like effect the music can have. The album thus sounds like a show with terrific pacing, bringing the listener up and down by changing parameters such as overall pitch and speed of the figures".<ref>Kopman, B., [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/nik-bartsch-the-road-to-stoa-by-budd-kopman Nik Bartsch: The Road To Stoa], 28 June 2007</ref>
==Track listing== ''All compositions by Nik Bärtsch'' # "Modul 5" – 8:56 # "Modul 11" – 9:20 # "Modul 4" – 3:53 # "Modul 12" – 5:41 # "Modul 4II" – 0:46 # "Modul 2" – 7:07 # "Modul 12II" – 8:02
==Personnel== * Nik Bärtsch — piano, prepared piano * Don Li – bass clarinet, alto saxophone * Mats Eser – marimba, percussion * Kaspar Rast – drums
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Category:Nik Bärtsch albums Category:2004 debut albums