I bought the LP of Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows inward the belatedly 70's next the recommendation past times a friend who loved keen jazz. This album includes several styles though, in addition to it is only captivating for the interplay of tone in addition to rhythm.
It is an absolute joy to hear this carefully remastered 24bit/96khz version on CD. Every popular in addition to 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 practice hear SO much to a greater extent than of the intricate especial of the ensemble. You tin post away besides fully appreciate Paul Buckmaster's superbly crafted production.
The booket includes Neil's original comments from the LP cover, summation "an introduction" past times Peter Muir (December 2004) which includes a detailed biography of the belatedly Neil Ardley in addition to "an appreciation" past times Neil's long time(1964 - 2004) musical collaborator Barbara Thompson, who plays alto in addition to soprano flute on six of these 7 tracks.
Surely no collection of seventies jazz could live on consummate without this album - in addition to this especial CD presents the timeless operate perfectly.
I am to a greater extent than than impressed - I am inward dear amongst this music all over again. By John Frame.
Neil Ardley was ane of the well-nigh distinctive composers of the British jazz scene. His operate was ever melodic in addition to 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 keen musical achievements of our age." Kaleidoscope of Rainbows drew inward contributions from Ian Carr, Paul Buckmaster, Tony Coe, Dave MacRae, in addition to Barbara Thompson, the real cream of what was in addition to hence a vibrant U.K. 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 banknote pelog scale used inward Balinese music. The suite has vii movements, ranging inward mood from the gentle in addition to pastoral to the fiery in addition to urgent. There are similarities to Pat Metheny's Secret Story which had a Cambodian influence. This was the showtime album inward which Ardley explored electronic music. By David Lindsay.
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows starts out scrupulously restricting itself to the Balinese pelog (?) scale amongst an ever-shifting background reminiscent of the gamelan, setting downward a topic that it recalls at the real 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 live on Rainbow Four, featuring a heartbreakingly beautiful sax solo from Barbara Thompson.
I'm surely no scholar of jazz, in addition to can't properly house it inward a list--if such a listing fifty-fifty makes sense. I tin post away say that this is gorgeous music, in addition to I intend you'll taste it. By James Jones.
Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows sounds every bit fresh, every bit inventive in addition to every bit exciting today every bit it must bring done dorsum inward '76, showtime fourth dimension 'round.
Rainbows was the 3rd album inward a trilogy recorded past times composer/bandleader Neil Ardley which started amongst '69's Greek Variations, reissued final yr on Impressed, in addition to continuing amongst '71's Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Symphony Of Amaranths, rumoured to live on upwards for reissue afterwards this spring. In each of these albums, inside dissimilar contexts, Ardley was concerned with, every bit he pose it, "integrating the warmth in addition to private feeling of improvised music amongst the formal beauty of composition to the practice goodness of both." The context for Greek Variations was a serial of variations on a Greek folk song, spell for Amaranths it was settings of poems past times Yeats, Joyce, in addition to others.
For Rainbows Ardley nodded dorsum to Greek Variations, this fourth dimension developing the suite from the basic 5 banknote pelog scale used inward Balinese music. It was besides the album inward which he showtime explored proto-electronic music—there are three, count 'em, synthesisists here—which became a telephone commutation involvement of his inward the belatedly '70s/early '80s.
The suite's vii movements, ranging inward mood from the gentle in addition to pastoral to the fiery in addition to urgent, are seriously enjoyable through-compositions inward their ain right, in addition to besides 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, in addition to Bob Bertles—with Buckmaster's electrical cello on "Rainbow Three," Thompson's soprano on "Four," in addition to Coe's clarinet on "Five" approaching the sublime.
With pin-sharp 24-bit remastering, in addition to a venture twelve-page booklet which includes Ardley's original liner notes in addition to an appreciation of his life in addition to operate (he died young, exactly over a yr ago) past times Barbara Thompson, Kaleidoscope Of Rainbows lives upwards to every myth that developed some 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 amongst jazz musicians. Coming out of the fertile in addition to creative British scene of the 1960s in addition to 70s, Ardley's fashion of working anticipated a younger generation who at nowadays displace happily betwixt contemporary, globe in addition to electronic music, commercial sessions in addition to improvisation.
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows (now digitally remastered) applies the methods of both formal composition in addition to systems-based modernism to motifs in addition to scales Ardley institute inward recordings of Balinese music. The score is performed past times an augmented version of Ian Carr's Nucleus; guests include Barbara Thompson in addition to Tony Coe (reeds) in addition to producer/cellist Paul Buckmaster. Ardley wasn't interested inward "fusion" - he wanted to brand a serious, extended operate amongst a wide palette of audio in addition to surgical operation methods. And that required synthesizers, a state- of-the-art studio (beautifully recorded past times engineer Martin Levan) in addition to musicians who could play the dots, improvise in addition to 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", amongst pretty melodies, catchy riffs in addition to retro grooves, but it wouldn't operate 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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