"Wm. ERROL PACE" wrote:
> I stumbled upon
> collection of sonic abandonment from ECM released back in 1978 -Terje
> Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous and Jack DeJohnette. Oh Yeah!!! Spacey?!!! Oh
> Yeah!!! Ambient?!!! Oh Yeah!!!
being a thorough lover of ECM---I gotta say that in any discussion of acid jazz
or ambient
work that label simply can't be overlooked.
Keith Jarrett aside, my fave, the saxaphonist Jan Garbarek--- did more than a
couple of albums with Rypdal---
Afric Pepperbird is the classic work, heavy on the Ornette-Coleman-side of acid
jazz antecedents
but the album SART is also heavy. Both albums line up not only Garbarek and
Rypdal but also
Arild Andersen (Bass) and Jon Christensen (Perc.), as well as Bobo Stenson on
piano.
This early line-up of the Jan Garbarek Quartet (minus Bobo) was just shaking
with Northern
European /Scandanavian readings of late Coltrane and Coleman.
On the more ambient side, Garbarek cut an album with Nana Vasconcelos and John
Abercrombie
(who also collaborated with DeJohnette) called Eventyr --that must be
experienced--and Garbarek also crafted
an album (with Ralph Towner) of ambient sax riffs/soundscapes based in
Norwegian Folk music--known as "Dis."
Paerticularly interesting about Dis is the presence of a windharp, an
instrument constructed by Sverre Larssen
that takes enviromental wind and creates a "sound image" out of the air stream.
This Aeolian Harp was then used to
record the unrelenting gusts of wind from the North Sea on the coast of
Southern Norway, creating an ambient music partner for
Garbarek's sax improvs.
in listening,
Christopher
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