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Jan Garbarek, Kjell Johnsen: Aftenland - CD

                 



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Format: CD
Condition: MINT (M)    More Info
Label: ECM Records 6747042
Country: Germany
Released: 2019-01-18
Genre: Jazz
Barcode: 602567470427
Quantity: 2 in stock
Seller Ref:   ECM1169

If improvisation is a form of meditation, then meditation is also a form of improvisation. In being at peace with what one plays, one lives it.

Jan Garbarek is, of course, one of ECM’s longest standing composers and saxophonists, yet he is first and foremost a spectacular improviser who often manages to reach farther than (I imagine) even his own expectations in touching new melodic concepts. Paired with the Spheres-like church organ of Kjell Johnsen, he plumbs the depths of spiritual and physical awareness in a way that few of his albums have since. Here more than anywhere else, he shapes reverberation into its own spiritualism, exploring every curve of his surrounding architecture, every carved piece of wood and masonry.

The title track opens with a viscous solemnity, ever in shadow, while “Syn” reaps even more intense crops from the ethereal harvest it has sown. A trio of miniatures clustered around the session’s center reaches even more intimately into its heartbeat. “Kilden” seems to drip from the chapel ceiling like a weeping fresco. Garbarek unveils the rare recorders for a more playful exchange in “Spill.” “Iskirken” grips the heart with its piercing keen, dividing cloud and rain with the light of grief that shines like no other in times of greatest darkness. Lastly, the hurdy-gurdy drone of “Tegn” strings a delicate safety net for Garbarek’s robust defenestration.

This album predates his later Officium project by fourteen years, but is in parts just as effective in its vaulted evocations of hidden chants and invisible voices. At times, it also reminds me of the Licht/Haino/Hamilton/MLW one-off, Gerry Miles, only with less turbulent folds.

This is a pensive album, an unsung classic in the Garbarek oeuvre, filled with more than enough revelations to lodge a place in your musical heart.

Tracklist:

1 Aftenland 7:152 Syn 6:413 Linje 1:584 Bue 2:045 Enigma 3:316 Kilden 7:337 Spill 4:218 Iskirken 6:479 Tegn 4:54

Music By – Jan Garbarek, Kjell JohnsenOrgan [Pipe Organ] – Kjell JohnsenTenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute [Wood Flute] – Jan Garbarek
ECM Records Audiophile Jazz CD Disc, , Stereo, Touchstones Series. Released 18.1.2019 In Germany.

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Tracklist
 
1Aftenland7:15
2Syn6:41
3Linje1:58
4Bue2:04
5Enigma3:31
6Kilden7:33
7Spill4:21
8Iskirken6:47
9Tegn4:54


Barcode and Identifiers
Barcode: 6 02567 47042 7
Label Code: LC 02516
Rights Society: GEMA
SPARS Code: AAD


Credits
Design [Cover Design] - Barbara Wojirsch
Engineer - Jan Erik Kongshaug
Music By - Jan Garbarek, Kjell Johnsen
Organ [Pipe Organ] - Kjell Johnsen
Producer [Produced By] - Manfred Eicher
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute [Wood Flute] - Jan Garbarek

Notes
Recorded December 1979
at Engelbrektskyrkan, Stockholm

An ECM Production

℗ 1980 © 2019 ECM Records GmbH


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