ECM, ambience, and acid jazz

From: Christopher W. Chase (chasech5@msu.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 31 2001 - 05:36:18 CET

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    "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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