John Surman - Road to Saint Ives (1990)
EAC Rip | FLAC, Image + CUE Sheet + LOG | 236 MB
MP3 CBR 320 kbps 44100 Stereo | 128 MB
ECM 1418 | Jazz | Complete Artwork
"Road to Saint Ives" covers everything, minimal music (more soul than Glass or Reich), free improvisation, folk, jazz, mixing colourscapes. Wonderful sounds from the worlds greatest exponent of the baritone sax.
A brilliant album.
St Ives is a coastal town in Cornwall, close to the south-west tip of England. It attracts many painters, who say the light is very good. John Surman, who was born and brought up next to Cornwall, says in the sleevenotes that this CD is not intended to be a set of musical portraits of places. Methinks he is being overly modest: on Trethevy Quoit , for instance, you can hear the wind scurrying past the megalith.
But here everything works in a wonderfully impressionistic wash of bass clarinet, sax and keyboards. There is some percussion, but no drums. You get rhythms, but these are created by keyboard riffs. Surman s tone is wonderfully assured and rounded whether on soprano or baritone saxophone or bass clarinet. While the synthesisers which appear on some tracks (also played by Surman) might sound tinny, they are not nearly as off-putting as those which appear on some of Garbarek s solo recordings. Despite the limited range of instruments, the sound is very rich and full and feels like a real band than a multi-layered studio production.
This album was top of the jazz charts for a number of weeks on its 1990 release in the UK, where Surman is almost as popular as Jan Garbarek. The two have covered similar territory with their solo ventures, though Surman has a highly distinctive reed voice and technique.
The most rock-oriented track is #10, Piperspool , which is the one that got the most radio play.
I love this album, as it sheds an entirely different light on the West Country, whose popular cultural image has been dominated by the bleak moors of The Hound of the Baskervilles .
Personnel
John Surman bass clarinet, soprano and baritone saxophones, keyboards, percussion
Tracklist
Polperro
Tintagel
Trethevy Quoit
Rame Head
Mevagissey
Lostwithiel
Perranporth
Bodmin Moor
Kelly Bray
Piperspool
Marazion
Bedruthan Steps
Recorded April 1990
ECM 1418
EAC LOGExact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 22. June 2008, 22:14
John Surman / Road to Saint Ives
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