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Jan Garbarek: All Those Born with Wings

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 1987
Time:
 43:15
Category: Jazz
Producer(s): Manfred Eicher
Rating:
Media type: CD
Web address: www.garbarek.com
Appears with: Keith Jarrett, Eberhard Weber, The Hilliard Ensemble
Purchase date: 2012
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] 1st Piece (J.Garbarek) - 6:09
[2] 2nd Piece (J.Garbarek) - 4:51
[3] 3rd Piece (J.Garbarek) - 7:38
[4] 4th Piece (J.Garbarek) - 6:34
[5] 5th Piece (J.Garbarek) - 12:54
[6] 6th Piece (J.Garbarek) - 5:09

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Jan Garbarek – Saxophones, Keyboards, Guitar, Percussion, Voice

Manfred Eicher - Producer
Jan Erik Kongshaug - Engineer
Barbara Wojirsch - Cover Design, Design
Sam Haskins - Photography

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LP 1987 ECM - ECM 1324
CD 1987 ECM - ECM 1324

Digital Recording, August 1986 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.



As one of ECM’s most passionate and prolific contributors, Jan Garbarek has left us with a varicolored, sometimes watery, archive. For All Those Born With Wings, the Norwegian saxophonist went solo, painting an evocative album of relic-laden vistas. The result is a six-part session filled with a variety of instruments and tastes. The hammered dulcimer is a welcome sound to the Garbarek palette, and is used tastefully in the 1st Part, where Garbarek’s saxophone refracts into a flock of large-winged birds. An army of chants floods the 2nd Part, as martial drums resound like the introductory sequence of a classic martial arts film.

While such dramatic flourishes make for a powerful start, the album’s hold begins to wane in the 3rd part, which comes across as tentative and in need of deeper thought. By the same token, such moments reveal an endearing vulnerability, one of which I like to think Garbarek was conscious when drawing this album from his psyche. Another drawback, though likely not at the time of recording, are the electronics, which don’t hold up as well as the melodies they articulate. Note, for example, the visceral edge Garbarek gets using only piano and saxophone in the 4th Part. This combination is so effective (cf. Stella Malu), one wishes it comprised the entire album. Its permeable lullaby haunts, as do the strains of the next part. This time, Garbarek pairs himself with a shoddy synthesized guitar, which makes me wonder why an acoustic couldn’t have been brought in. The subtle live percussion, however, adds flavor and sparkle to both of these pieces. I also find the multi-tracking to be an unnecessary diversion. Garbarek’s tone is already so full that additional voices seem superfluous. The final part brings together the album’s quiet logic at last and breeds its greatest clarity for the lack of contrivance.

There is something delicate, almost childlike, in these pockets of stars that makes them worth exploring. Still, those new to Garbarek may want to look elsewhere in his evening sky before connecting the dots of this particular constellation.

ECM Records



On the hip with most of Garbarek's recordings, this one is airy and spacy -- belting out screaming sax lines over a drony sea of nothing. The word to describe this record is passionate. This is not background music like many of his other recordings tend toward. Fans of his playing on Paul Giger's Alpstein will appreciate this one. The five pieces here -- serially titled -- tend to blend together, giving the impression of one long song.

Mark Allender - All Music Guide



All Those Born With Wings is a solo album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, released on the ECM label in 1987. On this recording Garbarek can be heard playing all the instruments, including keyboards, percussion, guitar and voice in addition to multitracked saxophone. Allmusic awarded the album with 3 stars and its review by Mark W. B. Allender states: "On the hip with most of Garbarek's recordings, this one is airy and spacy — belting out screaming sax lines. The five pieces here — serially titled — tend to blend together, giving the impression of one long song."

Wikipedia.org



Eine in sehr vieler Hinsicht atemberaubend schöne Platte. Das gilt für das unglaublich brillante Klangbild - und das gilt ebenso für die sechs sehr individuellen Kompositionen... Wer die Bereitschaft zum Zuhören noch nicht verloren hat, der hebt bei dieser Musik ab. Auch ohne Flügel.

F. Heckert in HiFiVision 4/87
 

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