ECM label recommendations

I think that it looks that way because it was so different and so experimental ... and I was already aware of it through Keith Jarrett, but had not gotten anything as yet, until I saw a Melody Maker advertisement for a concert in London ... Ash Ra Tempel and Terje Rypdal's Odyssey ... and I went after Odyssey right away, which is a nicer album (for me) than the one you mentioned, and the rest was history ... right about the same time I heard my first Egberto Gismonti album (No Caipira) which was astounding to say the least ... a Brazilian Stravinsky and then some .... the soundtrack (FOR ME) for the novel "Briefing for a Descent Into Hell" by Doris Lessing ... and not because of its strangeness and such ... it was just far out and out there ... !!! That got me into the other Gismonti albums that I maintained for the next 10 years and each one is better than the other ... and you MUST GET the album "MAGICO", for one of the prettiest album ever ... and then you look at it and go ... what? Charlie Haden? Jan Garbarek?

I kinda stopped picking up a lot of stuff when I was busy managing a restaurant, the last album I remember getting for a while on ECM was EVENTYR (Garbarek) which is an absolute must get ... PERIOD.

The last 20 years have been weird ... I have not been able to "connect" with many of the artists in ECM for some reason, and I think that a lot of the music was too much centered on traditional forms and designs and lost its aesthetic and introspective side of the music for me ... at least I have not heard a whole lot of new things that stood out like a Gismonti did for me, or a Rypdal, or even a Jarrett on his experimental phase. 

I miss the "experimental" periods, and the works of so many folks on ECM ... I don't see it continuing, and I am almost positive that it has to do with the commercial view and attitudes of the whole generation, that is not able, or willing to hear new things, and the presentations, for me, are sad, and uninspired. 

One worse thing ... one group from ECM made it here to Portland to the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival (one group every 20 years!!!!!) ... and when I spec'd it ... it felt like esoteric traditional ... not even ECM. Even the group OREGON is better and more enjoyable, although I think that they are mostly out of ECM these days ... haven't checked. Glenn Moore does bass lessons here in Portland for advanced players!