Water Stories

by Ketil Bj酶rnstad

Water Stories cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1993
  • Label: ECM
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 57:47
  • Community rating: 3.61/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

'Water Stories' pairs the Norwegian pianist with a formidable rhythm section to explore expansive, impressionistic modern jazz. The session embodies its label's signature spaciousness, utilizing sparse instrumentation and atmospheric interplay to evoke mysterious, aquatic landscapes.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, avant-garde, atmospheric, instrumental, ambient, minimal, piano

Tracklist

  1. Glacial Reconstruction (6:56)
  2. Part 1: Blue Ice (The Glacier): Levels And Degrees (7:16)
  3. Part 1: Blue Ice (The Glacier): Surface Movements (4:24)
  4. Part 1: Blue Ice (The Glacier): The View I (5:17)
  5. Part 1: Blue Ice (The Glacier): Between Memory And Presentiment (4:00)
  6. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: Ten Thousand Years Later (7:08)
  7. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: Waterfall (2:10)
  8. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: Flotation And Surroundings (5:17)
  9. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: Riverscape (2:11)
  10. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: Approaching The Sea (4:48)
  11. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: The View II (4:28)
  12. Part 2: Approaching The Sea: History (3:47)

Credits

  • Ketil Bj酶rnstad - primary artist, composed by [all compositions by], piano
  • Bj酶rn Kjellemyr - bass
  • Jon Christensen - drums
  • Per Hillestad - drums
  • Terje Rypdal - guitar

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