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Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975/2017) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/192kHz]

Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Time - 41:06 minutes | 1,46 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 41:06 minutes | 818 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Considered one of Ralph Towner's greatest albums, this 1975 release features the guitarist leading a quartet consisting of Jan Garbarek on saxophones and flute, Eberhard Weber on bass and cello and drummer Jon Christensen. Towner composed all the songs except for one contribution from Weber.
Ralph Towner & John Abercrombie - Five Years Later (1981/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Ralph Towner & John Abercrombie - Five Years Later (1981/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:12 minutes | 1,01 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

In 1976, guitarists Ralph Towner and John Abercrombie teamed up for a duet session, Sargasso Sea, that was released under Abercrombie's name. Five years later, they made this ECM date. One can easily tell the two guitarists apart, since Abercrombie mostly plays electric and has a more forceful sound, while Towner's solos are usually more introverted. They perform three of Towner's songs, a pair of Abercrombie originals, and three collaborations. Although the interaction tends to be fairly quiet, there is a lot of subtle passion.

Gary Peacock/Ralph Towner - Oracle (1994) {ECM} **[RE-UP]**  Music

Posted by TestTickles at Feb. 28, 2021
Gary Peacock/Ralph Towner - Oracle (1994) {ECM} **[RE-UP]**

Gary Peacock/Ralph Towner - Oracle (1994) {ECM}
EAC Rip | FLAC with CUE and log | scans | 191 mb
MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 127 mb
Genre: jazz

ECM are the label responsible for the release of Oracle. This is a collaboration between Gary Peacock and Ralph Towner, who released it in 1994.

Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) {ECM 1250}  Music

Posted by tiburon at April 10, 2022
Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) {ECM 1250}

Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) {ECM 1250}
EAC 0.99pbb4 | FLAC Image level 6 | Cue+Log | Full Scans 300dpi | 217MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 118MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Acoustic Fusion

If there were ever any doubts as to Ralph Towner’s consummate abilities, though one would need to travel far to encounter them, they can only have been put to rest with the release of Blue Sun. A near highpoint in Towner’s extensive discography, it might have shared the summit of 1980’s Solo Concert were it not for a few frayed threads. Towner’s compositions are already so harmonically dense in their solo form that other instruments merely externalize what is already so internally apparent to them, so that the intimate pickings of “The Prince And The Sage,” “Mevlana Etude,” and “Wedding Of The Streams” hover most clearly before our ears. At the same time, there is something skeletal about his playing that cries for flesh. Not for want of completeness, nor out of lack, but rather through the his balance and inward posture, a flower-like duplicity that embraces both blooming and wilting in the same breath.

Ralph Towner - Anthem (2001)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at March 12, 2023
Ralph Towner - Anthem (2001)

Ralph Towner - Anthem (2001)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 50:43 | 237 MB
Genre: Jazz, Modern Creative | Label: ECM | Catalog: 1743

On this solo recording, Ralph Towner returns to the elementary sounds of his classical and 12-string guitars for inspiration. Though an accomplished pianist, French horn, and trumpet player, Towner has left all of them out of Anthem's stark mix. And it's a good thing too. There was a time when his love of the Prophet V synthesizer and his piano improvisations covered over the gracefulness of his trademark signature on the guitar.

Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975) {ECM 1060}  Music

Posted by ruskaval at April 3, 2017
Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975) {ECM 1060}

Ralph Towner - Solstice (1975) {ECM 1060}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 215 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 97 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (jpg) -> 20 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 1975 ECM Records | ECM 1060 / 825 458-2
Jazz / Contemporary Jazz / Post Bop / Folk Jazz / Guitar

This is arguably the first recording to fully flesh out the aural expanse for which ECM has come to be known. Although I am well aware of the immense groundswell of musical activity that was the 1970s, certainly an album like this was a refreshing and altogether mind-altering experience for those fortunate enough to be young musical explorers at the time. Featuring a lineup of musicians who would go on to weave ECM’s significance into the fabric of time, Solstice is a tour de force of musicianship, writing, arrangement, and recording.

Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)  Music

Posted by Designol at Feb. 27, 2023
Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)

Ralph Towner - Open Letter (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 242 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 123 Mb | Scans ~ 30 Mb | 00:53:44
Contemporary Jazz, Guitar Jazz | Label: ECM | # ECM 1462, 78118-21462-2

It might be tempting to dismiss this Ralph Towner effort as New Age fluff, but the music is so gorgeous that any such considerations fall to the wayside. Yet the wayside is precisely where Towner sets his sights, which is to say that his interest lies in edges where musical idioms meet. He explores these lines, not unlike the blotted cover, with an ease of diction at the fret board that is recognizable and comforting. Drummer Peter Erskine shares the bill, but Towner adds a few synth touches for broader effect, as in “The Sigh,” which opens the session in a cleft of fluid energy.

Ralph Towner - At First Light (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 12, 2023
Ralph Towner - At First Light (2023)

Ralph Towner - At First Light (2023)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 143 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 102 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:44:12
Contemporary Jazz, Guitar Jazz | Label: ECM Records

An ECM artist for his entire musical career, US guitarist Ralph Towner has built up a unique body of work in his recordings for the label. Central to his oeuvre are his solo albums, the first of which, Diary, was issued 50 years ago. At First Light extends this great tradition, drawing inspiration from a broad palette of music. “My solo recordings have always included my own compositions in which there are trace elements of the many composers and musicians that have attracted me,” writes Towner in a liner note, citing the influence of, among others, George Gershwin, John Coltrane, John Dowland and Bill Evans: “I feel that At First Light is a good example of shaping this expanse of influences into my personal music.” In addition to his own pieces, Towner also plays Hoagy Carmichael’s “Little Old Lady”, Jule Styne’s “Make Someone Happy” and the traditional tune “Danny Boy.” Recorded at Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, in February 2022, At First Light was produced by Manfred Eicher.
Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan - Travel Guide (2013) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Slava Grigoryan - Travel Guide (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Time - 50:36 minutes | 619 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

An international summit meeting, “Travel Guide” features US guitarist Ralph Towner, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Kazakhstan-born and Australia-raised guitarist Slava Grigoryan. Towner has been a key ECM recording artist for more than 40 years, while Muthspiel and Grigoryan make label debuts here. Grigoryan is well known as the preeminent Australian classical guitarist of his generation, and Muthspiel’s been an important figure on the transatlantic jazz scene for two decades, with his own bands and as a contributor to groups of Gary Burton, Paul Motian and many others. What all three guitarists share is a strong feeling for structure, a sense for lyrical improvisation and a feeling for space, harnessing instrumental technique to very graceful musical ends. Repertoire features five compositions by Towner, and five by Muthspiel.

The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)  Music

Posted by ArlegZ at May 11, 2020
The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)

The Sound and the Fury - Guillaume Faugues 1 (2008)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 317 Mb | Total time: 61:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ORF | 3025 | Recorded: 2007

Some years ago Austrian radio ORF started a series of recordings with polyphony from the renaissance on its own label. The ensemble The Sound and the Fury has recorded music by well-known masters like Nicolas Gombert, Pierre de la Rue and Johannes Ockeghem. But they have also paid attention to some forgotten composers of the 15th century. One of them is Guillaume Faugues. As so often there is quite a difference between his reputation in his own time and in modern times. It is very likely nothing of his oeuvre has ever been recorded before.