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General Information
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Artist...............: JAN GARBAREK GROUP
Album................: Twelve Moons
Released.............: 1993
Genre................: Jazz
Duration.............: 1:15:33
Number of Songs......: 10
Cover(s) Included....: Yes
Audio Format.........: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Ripper...............: EAC
Encoder..............: FLAC v1.2.1
Reader...............: Plextor PX-755A
Source...............: CD
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Release Notes
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Track Listing:
01-Twelve Moons-07:37
Part One: Winter-Summer
Part Two: Summer-Winter
02-Psalm-06:33
03-Brother Wind March-10:20
04-There Were Swallows...-08:39
05-The Tall Tear Trees-05:51
06-Arietta-06:24
07-Gautes-Margjit-11:58
08-DarvĪ±nan-04:56
09-Huhai-07:32
10-Witchi-Tai-To-05:43
Album Review:
Norwegian saxophonist/composer Jan Garbarek is one of the north’s premier
musicians–and not merely in “jazz.” He has evolved from his early years as a
Coltrane-influenced saxophonist into a unique approach to playing and writing,
with a distinctive sax tone and a mature composer’s ability to work with
materials from folk music and the avant-garde as well as with jazz. Garbarek has
long been my favorite saxophonist–there are moments here as on all his albums
when his knife-edged tone can just rip holes in you, like a scalpel made of
frozen fire.
Twelve Moonsis both a summation and a look forward. It contains a few
arrangements of traditional Norwegian songs (“Psalm” and “Gautes-Margjit”),
something Garbarek has been exploring in depth of late, but this is also the
first album on which Garbarek looks back to his past catalogue and reworks or
presents a new version of a piece he has recorded before. Twelve Moons is a
celebration, too, as ECM’s 500th release. It’s fitting that ECM’s 500th album be
a Garbarek work, due to their long association together.
“Brother Wind March” is a reworking of “Brother Wind” from Garbarek’s earlier
album Legend of the Seven Dreams(ECM) that turns the original into a dramatic
processional. “Arietta” is a gentle arrangement of an Edvard Grieg piece, while
the album’s title cut is a two-part excerpt of music from a documentary film.
The album concludes with the Jim Pepper tune “Witchi-Tai-To,” which the Garbarek
Group has been using as a signature tune since they first recorded it almost 20
years ago. They play it here in an extended version that begins with just drums
and sax, then builds up to an peaceful climax full of space and light–a powerful
and moving vision.
Any new Jan Garbarek album is always an event, because he is always changing and
exploring. Twelve Moonsis a worthy addition to his oeuvre, both a summation and
a celebration.
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