Vapor Drawings

by Mark Isham

Vapor Drawings cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Windham Hill
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:09
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The debut solo album from the accomplished jazz trumpeter and film composer is an elegant fusion of acoustic instrumentation and sweeping electronic soundscapes. Heavily utilizing the Prophet-5 synthesizer alongside brass and woodwinds, the crystalline, highly melodic ambient compositions became a foundational release for the Windham Hill label. It significantly elevated the artistic credibility of the burgeoning new age genre.

Genres

Descriptors: instrumental, atmospheric, ambient, electronic, synthesizers, droning, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Many Chinas (4:08)
  2. Sympathy and Acknowledgement (8:23)
  3. On the Threshold of Liberty (7:32)
  4. When Things Dream (2:48)
  5. Raffles In Rio (4:42)
  6. Something Nice For My Dog (2:52)
  7. Men Before the Mirror (6:12)
  8. Mr. Moto's Penguin (Who'd Be an Eskimo's Wife?) (3:21)
  9. In the Blue Distance (4:07)

Credits

  • Mark Isham - primary artist, composed by, synthesizer, trumpet, flugelhorn, piano, saxophone, electronic valve instrument [steiner evi], percussion [electronic percussion], electronics flugelhorn piano soprano saxophone synthesizer trumpet instrument
  • Peter Van Hooke - percussion [electronic percussion], snare [snare drum], electronics snare drum instrument
  • Rick Goldman - plated by

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