OM - A Retrospective
ARTIST.....: OM
TITLE......: A Retrospective
LABEL......: ECM
URL........: n/a
RIP DATE...: Mar-01-2008
STORE DATE.: Jul-24-2006
GENRE......: Jazz
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 105,6 MB
Track Listing:
01 - Holly 08:32
02 - Lips 05:19
03 - Rautionaha 13:42
04 - Dumini 06:19
05 - Dreaming for the People 09:13
06 - Cerberus' Dance 05:47
07 - Asumusa 04:47
08 - At My Ease 09:19
09 - Earworms 05:07
10 - Eigentlich wollte Johann auf dem Mond den 11:31
andern Jazz kennenlernen
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79:36 min
Release Notes:
By John Fordham
ECM Records may have a reputation for tranquil jazzy tone-poetry,
but its defunct sister label Japo released a lot of edgy fusion in
the 1970s and 1980s, including the music of Swiss avant-rockers
OM. Most jazz-rock of the era was played by jazz musicians
mesmerised by rock's communicative power, but - like the UK's Soft
Machine - OM was a rock band who went the other way.
OM made four albums for Japo, and this compilation (picked by the
band) has four tracks from the first three, and the whole of the
final album, Cerberus. It's a mixed bag, with prolonged passages
of ambient effects that aren't sonically rich enough to head off a
sense of drift, but the hard-edged sound of Christy Doran's
guitar, and the explosive accents of drummer Fredy Studer drive up
the momentum on tracks like Dumini and Dreaming For the People.
The 12-minute finale of ambient sounds, funk-vocal samples, bowed
bass figures and spluttery reeds sounds like portentous intent
outstripping execution. Soft Machine had the creative edge in this
territory, but this is an interesting piece of period
documentation.
http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1600/1642.php