Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) Original DE Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Ralph Towner - Blue Sun
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Label: ECM Records/ECM 1250 | Released: 1983 | Genre: Acoustic-Fusion
A1 Blue Sun 7:16
A2 The Prince And The Sage 6:20
A3 C.T. Kangaroo 5:35
A4 Mevlana Etude 3:03
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B1 Wedding Of The Streams 5:04
B2 Shadow Fountain 6:34
B3 Rumours Of Rain 11:12
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – ECM Records GmbH
Pressed By – PRS Hannover
Published By – Distant Hills Music
Recorded At – Talent Studio
Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover
Credits
Design – Barbara Wojirsch
Engineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Steve Miller (19)
Photography By [Liner Photo] – Ralph Quinke
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Twelve-String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer [Prophet 5], French Horn, Cornet, Percussion, Composed By – Ralph Towner
Notes
Recorded December 1982 at Talent Studio, Oslo
An ECM Production
℗ 1983 ECM Records GmbH
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A): 2301 250 S1 320
Matrix / Runout (Side B): 2301 250 S2 320
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 2516
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 900mb & 200mb
Label: ECM Records/ECM 1250 | Released: 1983 | Genre: Acoustic-Fusion
A1 Blue Sun 7:16
A2 The Prince And The Sage 6:20
A3 C.T. Kangaroo 5:35
A4 Mevlana Etude 3:03
–
B1 Wedding Of The Streams 5:04
B2 Shadow Fountain 6:34
B3 Rumours Of Rain 11:12
Companies, etc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – ECM Records GmbH
Pressed By – PRS Hannover
Published By – Distant Hills Music
Recorded At – Talent Studio
Lacquer Cut At – PRS Hannover
Credits
Design – Barbara Wojirsch
Engineer – Jan Erik Kongshaug
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Steve Miller (19)
Photography By [Liner Photo] – Ralph Quinke
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Twelve-String Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano, Synthesizer [Prophet 5], French Horn, Cornet, Percussion, Composed By – Ralph Towner
Notes
Recorded December 1982 at Talent Studio, Oslo
An ECM Production
℗ 1983 ECM Records GmbH
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A): 2301 250 S1 320
Matrix / Runout (Side B): 2301 250 S2 320
Rights Society: GEMA
Label Code: LC 2516
Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) Original DE Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) Original DE Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
Ralph Towner - Blue Sun (1983) Original DE Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz
This Rip: 2019
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Vinyl Condition: NM-
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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.
Among the potpourri of instruments that Towner plays here, his Prophet 5, while nostalgic, sometimes gets in the way. It seems unnecessary, and evokes more the novelty of using one when his talents on so many other acoustic options were readily available to him. These “unnatural” sounds turn a concave sound into a glaringly convex one. “C.T. Kangaroo” in particular, while playful enough, jumps out as an anomaly in the album’s otherwise majestic mood. The lack of guitar also renders it incongruous. Elsewhere, however, synth textures do blend nicely, as in the floating pianism of the opening title track, and in “Rumours Of Rain,” to which a French horn adds vocal depth. “Shadow Fountain” also makes adept use of electronic textures, bubbling like water on a sunny day.
Towner fans will want to check this one out for sure, but newbies may want to hold off.December 20, 2011 | Tyran Grillo, ecmreviews.com
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