Codona

by Codona

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  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:56
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Collin Walcott, Don Cherry, Nan谩 Vasconcelos

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Comprising Colin Walcott, Don Cherry, and Nan谩 Vasconcelos, this multi-national trio pioneered a meditative, borderless fusion of jazz and traditional world music. The recording utilizes a vast array of global instrumentation, including sitar, berimbau, and pocket trumpet, weaving deeply spiritual, improvised acoustic textures. The project exemplified the ECM label's aesthetic commitment to spacious, cross-cultural avant-garde explorations.

Genres

Descriptors: Fusion, ritualistic, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Like That Of Sky (11:06)
  2. Codona (6:12)
  3. Mumakata (8:15)
  4. New Light (13:23)

Credits

  • Codona - primary artist
  • Nan谩 Vasconcelos - berimbau, cuica, percussion, voice, written-by
  • Collin Walcott - sitar, tabla, dulcimer [hammered], kalimba [sanza], voice, written-by
  • Don Cherry - trumpet, flute, ngoni [doussn'gouni], voice, written-by

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