Mo'kalamity Shine

Ruphus - Let Your Light Shine
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (tracks): 247 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Pan Records # PACD 026 | Country/Year: Norway 2005, 1975
Genre: Rock, Jazz | Style: Jazz Rock, Progressive Rock

"Ruphus is probably one of the most important 70's Norwegian hard rock band with progressive tendencies (…) Future jazz-rock legend Terje Rypdal produced their third album 'Let Your Light Shine', a jazz-rock album that had much success in Germany…"

Thirty seconds into "I Love You," the first track off of Shine, Daniel Lanois' warm, watery guitar signature is already unmistakable, even before his voice entwines ecstatically with Emmylou Harris'. Shine is the third Lanois album to appear under his own name, and his first in a decade. What is immediately startling about Shine is how spare it is. There is a plethora of sounds and textures to be sure, but they are suspended in space, looking not outside to communicate but toward the heart as a mirror, as if to make certain that the music played is not necessarily accurate but is true. Folk, country, blues, psychedelia, and atmosphere are wound together into an inseparable knot. Lanois played almost all of the instruments here, with the exception of drums, handled by Brian Blade and occasionally his brother, Brady. Other musicians, such as longtime musical collaborator Malcolm Burn and bassist Darryl Johnson, make appearances.