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Diary
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0042282915726
Format: Original recording reissued
Label: Ecm Records
Manufacturer: Ecm Records
MPN: 829157
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Ecm Records
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Studio: Ecm Records
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Rating: - Sustained Beauty
This is the album of music that started it all. From this one recording and the efforts from 'Trios, Solos', another ECM release of the same period - Ralph Towner single-handedly changed the scope of the improvising guitarist or multi-instrumentalist. The music Towner plays here, and his approach to the classical and 12-string guitars is like no other, and really had no precedent. The 70's were a special time for musicians who felt free enough to explore what was in the air, and indeed what was ... Read More
Rating: - Towner's solo orchestra ...
Recall first hearing Icarus back in the late 70s @the low end of the FM dial in Wash., D.C.: I was bowled over.
This wasn't just pop music anymore: this bordered on the orchestral. Later I heard Towner explain in a phone interv. that in fact he tried to infuse an orchestral quality into his guitar playing.
Icarus remains my sentimental favorite here; Ogden Road was covered later by Oregon & truly has that orchestral quality. Erg is a tour de force in guitar percussion, ... Read More
Rating: - A rainy day masterpiece.
I finally got hold of this Ralph Towner CD and can not be anymore pleased by it. Towner's work is dark in timbre and always pleasent and the piano and guitar duets will leave you in relaxation except for the gong work on Images Unseen. Dark Spirt is very moody and features some nice piano improv and lush accompinment of guitar. Towner gets out the 12 string for the lush but laid back piece Entry in a Diary. Images Unseen captures the mood of uneasyness and tenseness with the gong and guitar interplay. ... Read More
Rating: - A Moody Masterpiece
Even in the context of Towner's brilliant career, "Diary" is an outstanding album -- one of the four or five masterpieces in Towner's solo oeuvre. It's an astonishingly intimate album, almost private and hermetic as it drills down through layers of gorgeous melody to the roots of music itself in free pieces like "Entry in a Diary." This is one of the great rainy day albums of all time, featuring probing dialogues between Towner's guitar and piano, with occasional percussion. There's ... Read More
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