I bought the LP of Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows inward the slowly 70's next the recommendation yesteryear a friend who loved corking jazz. This album includes several styles though, together with it is exactly captivating for the interplay of tone together with rhythm.
It is an absolute joy to hear this carefully remastered 24bit/96khz version on CD. Every popular together with click on the LP was a tragic distraction, but it is at ane time obvious exactly how sonically superior the Dusk Fire Records (2005) CD version is when compared to the vinyl. You actually practise hear SO much to a greater extent than of the intricate item of the ensemble. You tin every bit good fully appreciate Paul Buckmaster's superbly crafted production.
The booket includes Neil's original comments from the LP cover, addition "an introduction" yesteryear Peter Muir (December 2004) which includes a detailed biography of the slowly Neil Ardley together with "an appreciation" yesteryear Neil's long time(1964 - 2004) musical collaborator Barbara Thompson, who plays alto together with soprano flute on half dozen of these 7 tracks.
Surely no collection of seventies jazz could locomote consummate without this album - together with this particular CD presents the timeless locomote perfectly.
I am to a greater extent than than impressed - I am inward honey alongside this music all over again. By John Frame.
Neil Ardley was ane of the virtually distinctive composers of the British jazz scene. His locomote was ever melodic together with accessible. This 1976 album was hailed every bit a masterpiece when it came out. The All Music Guide described the album every bit "one of the corking musical achievements of our age." Kaleidoscope of Rainbows drew inward contributions from Ian Carr, Paul Buckmaster, Tony Coe, Dave MacRae, together with Barbara Thompson, the really cream of what was together with hence a vibrant Great Britain jazz scene. To quote Dave Gelly inward the Guardian "Kaleidoscope of Rainbows is a classic, non exactly of British jazz, but of 20th-century music."
The music is developed from the basic 5 banker's complaint pelog scale used inward Balinese music. The suite has 7 movements, ranging inward mood from the gentle together with pastoral to the fiery together with urgent. There are similarities to Pat Metheny's Secret Story which had a Cambodian influence. This was the outset album inward which Ardley explored electronic music. By David Lindsay.
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows starts out scrupulously restricting itself to the Balinese pelog (?) scale alongside an ever-shifting background reminiscent of the gamelan, setting downward a subject that it recalls at the really end. As the sections larn on, they gradually add together dorsum to a greater extent than of the chromatic scale nosotros Westerners are accustomed to. The journeying is thoroughly enjoyable; every bit a sucker for the melancholy, my favorite has to locomote Rainbow Four, featuring a heartbreakingly beautiful sax solo from Barbara Thompson.
I'm for certain no scholar of jazz, together with can't properly house it inward a list--if such a listing fifty-fifty makes sense. I tin say that this is gorgeous music, together with I intend you'll savour it. By James Jones.
Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows sounds every bit fresh, every bit inventive together with every bit exciting today every bit it must accept done dorsum inward '76, outset fourth dimension 'round.
Rainbows was the 3rd album inward a trilogy recorded yesteryear composer/bandleader Neil Ardley which started alongside '69's Greek Variations, reissued terminal twelvemonth on Impressed, together with continuing alongside '71's Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Symphony Of Amaranths, rumoured to locomote upward for reissue later on this spring. In each of these albums, inside dissimilar contexts, Ardley was concerned with, every bit he lay it, "integrating the warmth together with private feeling of improvised music alongside the formal beauty of composition to the practise goodness of both." The context for Greek Variations was a serial of variations on a Greek folk song, piece for Amaranths it was settings of poems yesteryear Yeats, Joyce, together with others.
For Rainbows Ardley nodded dorsum to Greek Variations, this fourth dimension developing the suite from the basic 5 banker's complaint pelog scale used inward Balinese music. It was every bit good the album inward which he outset explored proto-electronic music—there are three, count 'em, synthesisists here—which became a fundamental involvement of his inward the slowly '70s/early '80s.
The suite's 7 movements, ranging inward mood from the gentle together with pastoral to the fiery together with urgent, are seriously enjoyable through-compositions inward their ain right, together with every bit good the settings for a serial of glistening solos from Ian Carr, Brian Smith, Dave Macrae, Geoff Castle, Paul Buckmaster, Barbara Thompson, Tony Coe, Ken Shaw, together with Bob Bertles—with Buckmaster's electrical cello on "Rainbow Three," Thompson's soprano on "Four," together with Coe's clarinet on "Five" approaching the sublime.
With pin-sharp 24-bit remastering, together with a company twelve-page booklet which includes Ardley's original liner notes together with an appreciation of his life together with locomote (he died young, exactly over a twelvemonth ago) yesteryear Barbara Thompson, Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows lives upward to every myth that developed roughly it during its wilderness years. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 landmark album inward British jazz. By Chris May.
Neil Ardley (1937-2004) was non hence much a jazzer, to a greater extent than a gifted composer who enjoyed hanging out alongside jazz musicians. Coming out of the fertile together with creative British scene of the 1960s together with 70s, Ardley's trend of working anticipated a younger generation who at nowadays displace happily betwixt contemporary, footing together with electronic music, commercial sessions together with improvisation.
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows (now digitally remastered) applies the methods of both formal composition together with systems-based modernism to motifs together with scales Ardley institute inward recordings of Balinese music. The score is performed yesteryear an augmented version of Ian Carr's Nucleus; guests include Barbara Thompson together with Tony Coe (reeds) together with producer/cellist Paul Buckmaster. Ardley wasn't interested inward "fusion" - he wanted to brand a serious, extended locomote alongside a wide palette of audio together with functioning methods. And that required synthesizers, a state- of-the-art studio (beautifully recorded yesteryear engineer Martin Levan) together with musicians who could play the dots, improvise together with larn the experience right.
Ardley was a state-of-the-art composer, determined to brand richly textured, thought-provoking music whatever the context. Kaleidoscope is however "accessible", alongside pretty melodies, catchy riffs together with retro grooves, but it wouldn't locomote without a tough compositional skeleton. By John L Walters.
Track listing:
1. Prologue/Rainbow One;
2. Rainbow Two;
3. Rainbow Three;
4. Rainbow Four;
5. Rainbow Five;
6. Rainbow Six;
7. Rainbow Seven/Epilogue.
Personnel:
Neil Ardley: director, synthesiser
Bob Bertles: alto, soprano, flute
Paul Buckmaster: acoustic, electrical cello
Ian Carr: trumpet, flugelhorn
Geoff Castle: electrical piano, synthesiser
Tony Coe: tenor, clarinet, bass clarinet
Dave Macrae: electrical piano, synthesiser
Roger Sellers: drums
Ken Shaw: guitar
Brian Smith: tenor, soprano, flute, alto flute
Roger Sutton: bass guitar, electrical bass
Barbara Thompson: alto, soprano, flute
Trevor Tomkins: percussion, vibraphone
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