Cat No:
DISCUS81CD
Release Date: 05 July 2019
Label: Discus Music
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5051078967929
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
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Description
A re-issue of Keith Tippett's first solo piano double LP from 1980, originally released on the Universal Productions label. The Unlonely Raindancer is undoubtedly a beginning, it is also an enigma. More than its means. The seminal first solo album by Keith Tippett released by Universal Productions in 1980 is a live recording from the previous year's short tour of the Netherlands. The audience applause was edited out, leaving the listener with the intensity of one lone musician literally improvising into composition.
"The re-blossoming of a long dormant rose. Or oak, as Tippett twice visits the folk melody of Tortworth Oak, though he soom transcends the tune with his massive chording, ocean-wide sense of dynamics and wrists of iron that allow him to repeat hot forged figures and trills with an unremitting, unswerving attack. With different pianos at different venues, there is a variation in tonality and ambience, but that adds to the overall richness of the sound quality, the narrative of the tour, as well of each cut. And that is Tippett's gift to the listener, that even in the most expressionistic passages, there's an organic storytelling arc to each piece, even within the epic Steel Yourself. This is improvised but not avant-garde music that disappears up its own arch. It's music with a heart of soul that can barely contain itself. But it does, just." - Andy Robson, JAZZWISE - EDITOR'S CHOICE
Keith Tippett - piano
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Tracklisting
- 1. Tortworth Oak (First Version)
- 2. The Unlonely Raindancer
- 3. Thank You God For My Wife And Children
- 4. The Muted Melody
- 5. Steel Yourself/The Bell, The Gong, The Voice
- 6. Dear Ireland
- 7. The Pool
- 8. Tortworth Oak (Second Version)
- 9. Midnight Snow Walk
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Made From A Broken Star
Army Of Briars
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Aeolian
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Alive in the Forest of Odd
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Right Here, Right Now
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Sound On Stone
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Practical Dreamers
Ron Caines / Martin Archer Axis
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Harpsichords
Matthew Bourne
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Blueprint
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Viva La Black Live at Ruvo
Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts, Louis Moholo-Moholo & Canto Generà l
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The Monk Watches The Eagle
Keith Tippett
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Live at Le Mans
Keith Tippett
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The Nine Dances Of Patrick O'Gonogon
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