Rites

by Jan Garbarek

Rites cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 5 October 1998
  • Label: ECM Records
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 1:38:06
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Norwegian saxophone master delivers a sprawling, double-disc exploration of cross-cultural musical synthesis. Supported by a diverse ensemble of European musicians and a prominent Georgian boys' choir, Garbarek seamlessly blends his distinctively icy, Nordic jazz tone with expansive folk melodies and new age atmospheric restraint.

Genres

Descriptors: saxophone, ambient, spacious, ritualistic, experimental

Tracklist

  1. Rites (8:27)
  2. Where The Rivers Meet (7:01)
  3. Vast Plain, Clouds (5:53)
  4. So Mild The Wind, So Meek The Water (6:09)
  5. Song, Tread Lightly (7:40)
  6. It's Ok To Listen To The Gray Voice (6:43)
  7. Her Wild Ways (6:44)
  8. It's High Time (3:33)
  9. One Ying For Every Yang (6:36)
  10. Pan (6:15)
  11. We Are The Stars (5:01)
  12. The Moon Over Mtatsminda (4:00)
  13. Malinye (6:24)
  14. The White Clown (3:48)
  15. Evenly They Danced (5:17)
  16. Last Rite (8:28)

Credits

  • Bugge Wesseltoft - synthesizer [additional synthesizer], effects [electronic effects], accordion
  • Marilyn Mazur - cymbal [additional cymbals], tom tom [additional toms], drums, slit drum, cymbal [additional cymbals], tom tom [additional toms]
  • Eberhard Weber - bass
  • Rainer Br眉ninghaus - keyboards [keyboard], piano
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  • Torstein Grythe - conductor
  • Jansug Kakhidze - composed by, vocals [singer], conductor
  • Don Cherry - composed by

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