Friday, 2 September 2022

Collin Walcott - Cloud Dance (1976)

Essentially John Abercrombie's Gateway Trio with a very different lead voice, in the form of Orgeon/CODONA's multi-instrumentalist (here focusing on his considerable talents on sitar) Collin Walcott (1945-1984).  This stunning record was recorded in the same month as Gateway's debut, right in the white heat of ECM's golden age with a lineup who perfectly merge jazz with Indian musical forms.  
 
Lengthy explorations giving the quartet full chance to shine, like opener Margueritte, sit alongside miniature features for Walcott and Dave Holland such as Prancing and Eastern Song.  Abercrombie is by turns liquid and languid (Night Glider, the lovely title track) and throughly electrified (Scimitar).  Walcott's sublime playing remains the star of this album, and would continue to occupy a unique space in the ECM sound world (including with a reformed Oregon) until his tragic accidental death at the age of 39.

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4 comments:

  1. Liana Helas2 September 2022 at 17:07

    Great Recording. - Thanks a lot ... »The best is yet to come ...«: https://lianahelas.blogspot.com/2020/07/bzw-you-dont-know-why-for-alto.html

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  2. rev.b3 September 2022 at 04:14

    Still an absolutely mesmerizing album, One of my all-time favorites as well. Many thanks.

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  3. djh62uk4 September 2022 at 08:32

    Thanks Alan, a great album! Very interesting to listen to it intercut with space rock and prog tracks from the multimedia edition of Audion Magazine #69. Great trippy Sunday morning music.

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  4. Michael Rae13 September 2022 at 14:29

    Thanks for sharing, Alan; I used to own this one on vinyl, once upon a time......was fortunate enough to see Oregon twice before Collin's most unfortunate demise.

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