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Jan Garbarek Group: Twelve Moons - CD

                 



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Format: CD
Condition: MINT (M)    More Info
Label: ECM Records 5195002
Country: Europe
Genre: Jazz
Barcode: 731451950025
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Twelve Moons was Jan Garbarek’s 20th album as a leader for ECM. It also happened to be the 500th ECM production. The figures say something about the value of endurance. Back at the beginning of this story George Russell claimed that Jan Garbarek would come to be regarded as the most important European improvising musician since Django Reinhardt. A remark that smacked of hyperbole at the time now seems credible.

There are very few European improvisors who can be said to have transcended their original influences and made a music that reflects their own life, their own experiences ("If you don't live it, it won't come out the horn" - C. Parker), but Garbarek is unquestionably one of them. Lessons learned from a wide range of role models - Coltrane, Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster - have been completely integrated in a conception that is in many particulars specifically Norwegian yet is also universal, continually uncovering correspondences with the folk musics of the entire globe. "You might say that I live in a spiritual neighbourhood that is scattered geographically around the world." Thus Garbarek is equipped to move easily from, say, jazz ballads with Miroslav Vitous (Star, Atmos) to North Indian classical music, interacting with singer Ustad Fateh Ali Khan and his group on Ragas And Sagas. This is one aspect of the saxophonist's work. Along the way, working on his own projects, he has also learned much about the dynamics of band leadership, and how to staff his groups with provocative combinations of personnel, sparking new music by bringing together players from quite different cultures.

Twelve Moons was the first Garbarek Group record after 1990's I Took Up The Runes, and in the interim there had been one fundamental change in the line-up, with Marilyn Mazur replacing Nana Vasconcelos. The Danish percussionist, who joined Garbarek's group after leaving Miles Davis's, is less of a "colouristic" player than her predecessor. She stays closer to the heart of the rhythm, working closely with Parisian drummer Manu Katché to build lithe, limber grooves that the leader can deploy as launch-pads for his impassioned flights on soprano and tenor.

Eberhard Weber had been with Jan since 1981's Paths, Prints, though their association goes back further, to Ralph Towner's 1974 "Solstice" band. Rainer Brüninghaus joined the Garbarek unit in time for the 1984 recording of It's OK To Listen To The Gray Voice, strengthening the German contingent in the line-up; Brüninghaus, of course, was a charter member of Weber's Colours band in the 1970s.

The thrust of the Garbarek Group's music is multi-directional. If the rhythms are frequently earthy and almost tribal in feel, the synthesizer soundscapes (created by Garbarek himself on the title track, and by Brüninghaus elsewhere) are richly-textured and hypermodern. The ensemble sound is uncategorizable: Garbarek rejected the "jazz" category for his own work long ago. ("When people ask me what kind of music I play, I have to say 'I don't know.'")

The continuing commitment to Norwegian source musics is one of Twelve Moons' sub-themes. "Arietta" is an adaptation of a piece by Edward Grieg, whose 150th birthday is celebrated in Norway this year. Grieg, of course, also used Norwegian folk music to spur his creative imagination. The local colour intensifies on Twelve Moons when singer Agnes Buen Garnås and Mari Boine come to the fore. Garngs, whose acclaimed Rosensfole helped build a new audience for Norwegian music, performs the traditional "Psalm", arranged here by Garbarek and sung after the manner of Sogn's Ragnar Vidal. Vocalist Mari Boine, born in the Arctic circle in the area that her Sami people refuse to call Lapland, sings her own "D

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Tracklist
 
Twelve Moons7:35
2Psalm6:32
3Brother Wind March10:17
4There Were Swallows ...8:36
5The Tall Tear Trees5:45
6Arietta6:21
7Gautes-Margjit11:53
8Darvánan4:54
9Huhai7:29
10Witchi-Tai-To5:43


Barcode and Identifiers
Barcode: 7 31451 95002 5
Label Code: LC 2516
SPARS Code: DDD
Rights SocietyBoxed: BIEM·MCPS
Matrix / Runout: 519 500-2 01 /
Matrix / RunoutMould ring: MADE IN GERMANY BY PMDC AD
Mould SID Code: IFPI 01S4


Credits
Bass - Eberhard Weber
Design [Cover Design] - Barbara Wojirsch
Drums - Manu Katché
Engineer - Jan Erik Kongshaug
Keyboards - Rainer Brüninghaus
Percussion - Marilyn Mazur
Photography By - Jan Jedlička
Producer - Manfred Eicher
Saxophone [Saxophones] - Jan Garbarek
Vocals [Vocal] - Agnes Buen Garnås, Mari Boine

Notes
Psalm sung in the tradition of Ragnar Vigdal, Sogn.
Huhai includes the traditional Sami joik "Oskar-An'te".
[Tracks 1.1 & 1.2] Excerpts of music composed for the film "Around The Year In Børfjord".

Recorded September 1992 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo

An ECM Production
℗© 1993 ECM Records

Prinded in Germany

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℗ 1993 ECM Records

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©℗ 1993 ECM Records

Prinded in Germany

Sticker on front cover:
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Jahrespreis
519 500-2


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