Mountainscapes

by Barre Phillips

Mountainscapes cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: December 1976
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 37:21
  • Community rating: 3.92/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An incredibly unique and atmospheric session led by the avant-garde double bassist, extensively utilizing primitive synthesizer technology alongside traditional jazz instrumentation. Recorded in Germany, the album features significant contributions from John Surman, blending deeply cold, ethereal electronic textures with highly spacious free improvisation. It perfectly encapsulates the icy, heavily textured aesthetic championed by the ECM label in the mid-1970s.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, improvisation

Tracklist

  1. Mountainscape 1 (5:53)
  2. Mountainscape 2 (2:43)
  3. Mountainscape 3 (4:21)
  4. Mountainscape 4 (4:25)
  5. Mountainscape 5 (4:50)
  6. Mountainscape 6 (4:33)
  7. Mountainscape 7 (3:21)
  8. Mountainscape 8 (7:12)

Credits

  • Barre Phillips - primary artist, composed by, double bass
  • John Surman - bass clarinet, synthesizer, baritone saxophone, composed by
  • Dieter Feichtner - composed by, synthesizer
  • Stu Martin - composed by, drums, synthesizer
  • John Abercrombie - guitar

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