Ralph Towner - Diary

Ralph Towner / Diary
Жанр: Contemporary Jazz
Страна-производитель диска: Germany
Год издания диска: 1973
Издатель (лейбл): ECM
Номер по каталогу: ECM 1032
Страна: USA
Аудио кодек: (MP3 + FLAC) (*.flac)
Тип рипа: image+.cue
Битрейт аудио: (lossy + lossless)
Продолжительность: 42:48
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Треклист:
1:Dark Spirit
2:Entry in A Diary
3:Images Unseen
4:Icarus
5:Mon Enfant
6:Ogden Road
7:Erg
8:The Silence of A Candle

Лог создания рипа

Содержание индексной карты (.CUE)

Об исполнителе (группе)

Ralph Towner (b. Chehalis, Washington, March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.

Об альбоме (сборнике)

Even in the context of Towner's brilliant career, Diary is an outstanding album -- one of the four or five masterpieces in Towner's solo oeuvre. It's an astonishingly intimate album, almost private and hermetic as it drills down through layers of gorgeous melody to the roots of music itself in free pieces like Entry in a Diary. This is one of the great rainy day albums of all time, featuring probing dialogues between Towner's guitar and piano, with occasional percussion. There's a tender sadness here, but there's also joy and triumph.
Note: This is *early* Towner -- the same moody genius of Oregon's Distant Hills and Winter Light. The oft-played Icarus gets a victorious reading here, with a tension between the unbridled ecstasy of the melody and Towner's fragmented attack; Mon Enfant is a perfect solo guitar miniature for the ages -- one can imagine Bach hearing it and musing on its delicate melancholy; Images Unseen and Entry in a Diary extend the guitar and piano landscape into free space, adding percussion, in the manner of Oregon's set-opening improvisations; and one wishes that Ogden Road, with its poignant exchanges between Towner's inimitable crystalline guitar and his Bill Evans-style piano meditations, would go on forever.
A fine introduction to Towner's solo work -- even more inward than, say, Open Letter, if not quite as incendiary as Solo Concert, and more intense than his later all-solo all-instruments outing, Blue Sun. Highest recommendation.