"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.
I must say this particular Rypdal -Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous & Jack
DeJohnette- was released back in 1978 and it is amazing that it sounds this
good!!! I love the production that goes into the ECM projects that I have
heard. I found an out of print Rypdal release on the net the other day and
it is heading my way -Oddessy-. I am pretty sure I will be checking out
more artist from ECM. For some strange reason I have this urge to check out
some of David Darling's Sonic Ambient Cello work. He and Rypdal have an
album out together called -EOS-. On the recent side of the fence Holy
Mother Mary of God Private Pyle!!! I really do like Nils Petter Molvaer's
-Khmer- and -Smooth Ether- which are on ECM. ECM ROCKS!!!! Purple Haze and
Happy Trails!!!
Semper Motociclismo,
Pace'
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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