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Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)  Music

Posted by popsakov at Dec. 11, 2023
Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)

Jan Garbarek / Anouar Brahem / Shaukat Hussain - Madar (1994)
EAC Rip | WavPack (Img) + Cue + Log ~ 386 Mb | MP3 CBR320 ~ 233 Mb
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Contemporary Jazz | ECM Records #ECM 1515 / 519 075-2

Madar is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek featuring Tunisian oud player Anouar Brahem and Pakistani tabla master Ustad Shaukat Hussain recorded in 1992 and released on the ECM label in 1994. On this CD Jan Garbarek (doubling on tenor and soprano) is accompanied only by Anouar Brahem on oud and Ustad Shaukat Hussain's tabla. Garbarek shows off his distinctive tones and lyricism on a set of gradually developing group originals, two of which are based on traditional Norwegian melodies. It may take some time for listeners to get into this music and notice the fire beneath the ice but the close communication between the players is apparent from the start.
Anja Garbarek - The Road Is Just a Surface (The Original Full-length Theatrical Version) (2018)

Anja Garbarek - The Road Is Just a Surface (The Original Full-length Theatrical Version) (2018)
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Art Pop, Trip-Hop, Female Vocal | Label: Drabant Music

The Road Is Just A Surface is the brand new album by renowned Norwegian artist Anja Garbarek. It is available in two editions, "Red" and "Yellow". The Red concept album is a dazzling and sinister soundscape that stretches for more than 70 uninterrupted minutes. On the Yellow edition, the songs have been edited and remixed to offer a different route into Garbarek's melodic pop art.

Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings (1987) {ECM 1324}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 9, 2023
Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings (1987) {ECM 1324}

Jan Garbarek - All Those Born With Wings (1987) {ECM 1324}
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Genre: Jazz, World Fusion

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.
Jan Erik Vold & Jan Garbarek - Hav (1970/2021) {Norske Albumklassikere}

Jan Erik Vold & Jan Garbarek - Hav (1970/2021) {Norske Albumklassikere}
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Genre: Jazz, Modern Creative, Poetry

Jan Erik Vold and Jan Garbarek, two of Norway's most prominent figures in jazz teamed up with bassist Arild Andersen, drummer Jon Christensen, guitarist Terje Rypdal and Bobo Stenson on keyboards and these two September days in 1970 and made a formidable jazz album that goes for several thousand on vinyl in the used market. Two poems from Violence ("Det alle vet" from the collection of poems Mor Godhjertas glade version. Ja (1968) and "Dikt" which are taken from Kykelipi (1969)) and long tenacious instrumental parts. Great art from great artists.

Jan Garbarek - Photo With Blue Sky (1979) {ECM 1135}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 9, 2023
Jan Garbarek - Photo With Blue Sky (1979) {ECM 1135}

Jan Garbarek - Photo With Blue Sky (1979) {ECM 1135}
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Genre: Jazz, Fusion

Jan Garbarek's icy and haunting tones on tenor and soprano are in the forefront during much of this set. He performs six originals (which have simple but picturesque titles such as "Blue Sky," "Windows" and "The Red Roof") with the assistance of guitarist Bill Connors, pianist John Taylor, bassist Eberhard Weber and drummer Jon Christensen.

Jan Garbarek - Legend Of The Seven Dreams (1988) {ECM 1381}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Feb. 10, 2023
Jan Garbarek - Legend Of The Seven Dreams (1988) {ECM 1381}

Jan Garbarek - Legend Of The Seven Dreams (1988) {ECM 1381}
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Genre: Jazz, Ethnic Fusion

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.

Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen - Aftenland (1980) {ECM 1169}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 15, 2023
Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen - Aftenland (1980) {ECM 1169}

Jan Garbarek / Kjell Johnsen - Aftenland (1980) {ECM 1169}
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Genre: Jazz

Jan Garbarek is, of course, one of ECM’s longest standing composers and saxophonists, yet he is first and foremost a spectacular improviser who often manages to reach farther than (I imagine) even his own expectations in touching new melodic concepts. Paired with the Spheres-like church organ of Kjell Johnsen, he plumbs the depths of spiritual and physical awareness in a way that few of his albums have since. Here more than anywhere else, he shapes reverberation into its own spiritualism, exploring every curve of his surrounding architecture, every carved piece of wood and masonry.

Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek - Luminessence (1975) {ECM 1049}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 11, 2023
Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek - Luminessence (1975) {ECM 1049}

Keith Jarrett & Jan Garbarek - Luminessence (1975) {ECM 1049}
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Genre: Jazz

Keith Jarrett does not actually play on this CD; rather, he composed three angst-ridden pieces of varying lengths for string orchestra, over which Jan Garbarek improvises on tenor and soprano saxes. The concept is not unlike that of Stan Getz's Focus, but this music is far more static, downcast, and free of the pulse of jazz. As was characteristic of his writing then, Jarrett's string parts are mostly turgid and thick-set, indulging in weird, sliding microtones on "Windsong," weighted down by some kind of emotional burden.
Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble - Remember Me, My Dear (2019)

Jan Garbarek, The Hilliard Ensemble - Remember Me, My Dear (2019)
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Classical | Label: ECM | 2625 | Recorded: 2014

25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes Remember me, my dear, recorded during the final tour the group made in October 2014.
Named for the Scottish ballad which concludes it, the programme is emblematic of the range of repertoire the Norwegian saxophonist and British vocal quartet explored together from Pérotin, Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume le Rouge, Antoine Brumel to Komitas, Arvo Pärt and more.
Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Edward Vesala - Triptykon (1973/2023)

Jan Garbarek, Arild Andersen, Edward Vesala - Triptykon (1973/2023)
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42:51 | Free Jazz | Label: ECM

Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek took several intriguing stylistic turns early in his career, none more extreme than that shown on Triptykon. While he had always shown an affinity for the work of Albert Ayler and other free jazz musicians who came of age in the '60s, his prior albums retained a more straight-ahead rhythmic drive and more than a passing nod to experimental rock and fusion. Here, he jettisoned guitarist Terje Rypdal and replaced the sometimes overly delicate percussion work of Jon Christensen with the more earthy and heavy sounding Edward Vesala. The result is an expressionist trio drawing on both free improvisation and Scandinavian folk tunes, roaring, stumbling, and reeling, evoking an aural equivalent of Edvard Munch.