Ralph Towner: Time Line

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Classical and 12-string guitarist Ralph Towner is one of the architects of the ECM sound, and he was a founding member of the 1970s group Oregon. For his 21st release on the label---his fifth in the solo format---Towner recorded in St. Gerold's Church, a monastery in the Austrian Alps, which accounts for the introspective character of this project. Save for his Bill Evans-influenced renditions of the standards "Come Rain or Come Shine" and "My Man's Gone Now," the compositions are all written by Towner, from the contrapuntal "Oleander Etude" to the free-form "Five Glimpses" and "Always by Your Side," a ballad written for a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest. He may not swing like Joe Pass, but the syncopated meditation that aurally illuminates this effort makes Towner a musical master to be listened to, and reckoned with. --Eugene Holley, Jr.

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Tracks

1. The Pendant
2. Oleander Etude
3. Always by Your Side
4. The Hollows
5. Anniversary Song
6. If
7. Five Glimpses: I
8. Five Glimpses: II
9. Five Glimpses: III
10. Five Glimpses: IV
11. Five Glimpses: V
12. The Lizards of Eraclea
13. Turning of the Leaves
14. Come Rain or Come Shine
15. Freeze Frame
16. My Man's Gone Now

Ralph Towner: Guitar