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Jan Garbarek: Legend of the Seven Dreams

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Label: ECM Records
Released: 1988
Time:
 54:10
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] He Comes from the North (J.Garbarek) - 13:34
[2] Aichuri, the Song Man (J.Garbarek) - 5:03
[3] Tongue of Secrets (J.Garbarek) - 8:07
[4] Brother Wind (J.Garbarek) - 8:03
[5] Its Name Is Secret Road (J.Garbarek) - 1:43
[5] Send Word (J.Garbarek) - 7:12
[6] Voy Cantando (J.Garbarek) - 6:48
[7] Mirror Stone (J.Garbarek) - 1:11
[8] Mirror Stone (J.Garbarek) - 2:29

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Jan Garbarek - Soprano And Tenor Saxophones, Flute
Rainer Brüninghaus - Electronic Keyboards
Eberhard Weber - Bass
Naná Vasconcelos - Percussion, Voice

Manfred Eicher - Producer
Jan Erik Kongshaug - Engineer
Christian Vogt - Photography
Barbara Wojirsch - Design

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1988 CD ECM Records - ECM 1381

Digital Recording, July 1988 at Rainbow Studio, Oslo.



Though in step with its time, this release suffers from excessive reliance on ambient synthesizers, which litter much of the recording, rendering it only slightly more interesting than many of the Windham Hill new age recordings of the same era. Unfortunate, because the disc opens with strength and gradually peters out by the end. The disc opens with "He Came From the North," which features a melody based on a traditional Lapp joik from the artist's native Norway and progresses into a longer section with an interplay that is both sparse and rhythmic. The sax line here is astonishingly beautiful. The second piece, "Alchuri, the Song Man," a sax and percussion piece, is energetic and lively as well. And from here the energy gradually diminishes. Much can be attributed to popular styles of the time, but this release simply does not stand up to other music of its genre that came later.

Mark W. B. Allender - All Music Guide



There's mystery and looming drama throughout this 1988 recording, as Garbarek combines his saxophones and flute with his highly developed studio art. There's a piquancy to the long opening track, with Garbarek's lilting soprano first paraphrasing a traditional Lapp song before developing darker, minor hues. Strong echoes of the Middle East arise in the drones and percussion and the cry of Garbarek's saxophones on "Achirai" and "Brother Wind." "Voy Cantando" has hints of Garbarek's powerful jazz voice, momentarily exploding into the softer textures that predominate here. On the longer tracks, the saxophonist is joined by regular associates Eberhard Weber on bass, Nana Vasconcelos on percussion, and Rainer Brüninghaus on keyboards, while he goes it alone for a few brief atmospheric pieces. "Its Name Is Secret Road" is all flute with some arresting electronic alterations, while his soprano is the principal instrument on the "Mirror Stone" pieces, his plaintive oboelike sound seeming to echo across the fjords. --Stuart Broomer

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Legend of the Seven Dreams is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek, featuring Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber and Naná Vasconcelos, released on the ECM label in 1988. Allmusic awarded the album with 2.5 stars and its review by Mark W. B. Allender states: "The disc opens with "He Came From the North," which features a melody based on a traditional Lapp joik from the artist's native Norway and progresses into a longer section with an interplay that is both sparse and rhythmic. The sax line here is astonishingly beautiful."

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Mit Endlosschleifen auf dem Sopran- und Tenorsaxophon dreht der Norweger Jan Garbarek seit bald zwei Jahrzehnten seine Runden über der immer unübersicht- licheren Jazzlandschaft - und verliert dabei mit nordisch klarem Blick sel- ten die Orientierung. Diesmal hat er sich weit aufgeschwungen und kreatives Neuland erkundet: Mit dem südamerikanischen Perkussionisten Nana Vasconcelos erforschte er die "Legende der sieben Träume (E.Gismonti) - und fand eine musikalische Welt, die zu den reizvollsten Ethno-Landschaften gerechnet werden darf. Dank Keyboarder Rainer Brüninghaus und Eberhard Weber am Baß wird der stimmige lyrische Grundton der Aufnahme nie verlassen. Gleich im Eröffnungsstück "He Comes From The North" kontrastieren Garbareks flirrende Sopransax-Improvisationen über einer traditionellen Lappen-Melodie mit übermütig rasselnden Rhythmen von der Copacabana. Fast eine Viertelstun- de wird der suggestive Takt durchgehalten, der Zuhörer so in eine Stimmung zwischen Wachen und Traum versetzt, die vorbereitet auf die Märchenreise zu "Aichuri, The Song Man". Garbarek zaubert hier im Alleingang, mit der Hilfe von Overdub-Techniken, einen exotisch-wilden Ethno-Beat aus Tenorsaxophon und Percussion-Instrumenten. "Tongue Of Secrets" schlägt dann die Brücke zwischen Folklore, Jazz und New Age - eine stimmige Pastellmalerei, mit wunderschönen Farbtupfern aus Nana Vasconcelos' Rhythmus-Arsenal, die Tonre- gisseur Jan Erik Kongshaug im Osloer Rainbow Studio prachtvoll in Szene setzt. Die Klarheit und Leichtigkeit der Aufnahme, ihre Fähigkeit, einen Ton der Stille abzuringen und festzuhalten, veredelt auch die weiteren Stationen dieser im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes traumhaften Klang-Expedition: Auf "Brother Wind" greift Rainer Brüninghaus kräftig in die Tasten, "Send Words" sticht durch Eberhard Webers üppigen Baß heraus, mit "Voy Cantando" schließ- lich knüpft Garbarek an "Witchi-Tai-To" an. In der Tat: Seit jenem Meister- werk vom Anfang der 70er Jahre gelang dem Norweger kein besserer Wurf.

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Obwohl Nana Vasconcelos' nervöse Percussion im Kontrast zu Jan Garbareks meditativen Melodien auf Flöte, Sopran- und Tenorsaxophon steht, wirkt die "Legende von den sieben Träumen" in sich geschlossen. Die weiten Melodien von Eberhard Weber (Baß) und Rainer Brüninghaus (Keyboards) verstärken die Harmonie.

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Legend Of The Seven Dreams is hands down one of Garbarek’s finest. A fantastic album that welcomed listeners into one of the versatile saxophonist’s most captivating sonic continents, one mapped further on Visible World (a personal favorite), it digs deep into the soils of his native Norway and beyond and marks a leaning toward the soprano that has colored so much of his playing since. And with Rainer Brüninghaus on keyboards, Nana Vasconcelos on percussion (including some vocal details), and Eberhard Weber on bass as his fellow journeyers, who could ask for more?

Garbarek’s lines are as smooth as the jet stream in the folk tale that is “He Comes From The North.” The immediately recognizable berimbau of Vasconcelos lifts this piece to even greater heights of emotive power. An inauguration ceremony in sound, this blissful opener holds attention for every second of its fourteen-minute expanse. “Aichuri, The Song Man” is another cavern of dreams, where the plodding footsteps of history echo and an otherworldly synthesizer speaks with the voice of the future. Into this swirling milieu Garbarek adds his distinct flavors, divining every bone with a flesh made music. The wooden clicks of the “Tongue Of Secrets” impart flight to a solemn flute, whose only soul hides in the undergrowth of an undiscovered country somewhere far below (the flute also makes a wayfaring appearance in the solo “Its Name Is Secret Road”). “Brother Wind,” a classic in the Garbarek canon, makes an early appearance here. Like its namesake, its pure, inspiring craftwork flows in all directions. This and “Voy Cantando” feature a beautiful synth harpsichord as progenitor of Garbarek’s lilting themes. As might a river over eons, Weber carves not a few winding paths in “Send Word,” for which Garbarek is ever the reliable guide. The missing capstone to this pyramid is the two-part “Mirror Stone,” which drifts, not unlike the smoke of the album’s cover, from the fissure of a solitary pyre.

In terms of its electronics, the mythological potency of this date is a vast improvement on the integrative experiments of All Those Born With Wings. Here is a musician coming into his own, as he continues to do throughout his career, yet again.

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