No Time for Time

by P氓l Thowsen, Jon Christensen, Terje Rypdal & Arild Andersen

No Time for Time cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1977
  • Label: Zarepta
  • Country: Norway
  • Length: 38:13
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Four pillars of the Norwegian jazz scene unite for this expansive and technically demanding collaborative effort. The music explores atmospheric avant-garde structures alongside dynamic fusion grooves, heavily characterized by Terje Rypdal's distinctive, soaring guitar tone. It is a vital document of the innovative Nordic jazz movement of the 1970s.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, improvisation, ambient, atmospheric, minimal, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. No Time For Time (7:15)
  2. More Cymbals (3:02)
  3. Pox (3:32)
  4. Craggy Mountains (3:55)
  5. The Tamborim (2:51)
  6. P. T. (7:46)
  7. Only Two (3:04)
  8. Mauve Stripes (4:24)
  9. May, 17th (2:20)

Credits

  • Sidsel Paaske - cover ["tide" painting]

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