Tõnu Kaljuste Conductor
Tõnu Kaljuste Conductor
Members of Philharmonic Orchestra Oslo
Release date: 01.01.1977
ECM 1084
1
T. ON A WHITE HORSE(Eberhard Weber)
10:10
2
MOANA I(Eberhard Weber)
10:52
3
THE FOLLOWING MORNING(Eberhard Weber)
12:04
4
MOANA II(Eberhard Weber)
07:42
The bassist Eberhard Weber has been a pivotal artist in terms of the evolution of an ECM sound, debuting with his classic Colours of Chloe in 1973. His regular sparring partner is the pianist Rainer Brüninghaus, both of them members of a post-1970s Jan Garbarek band and the bassist's Colours band formed in the mid-1970s. That was around the time of his third album release as leader, The Following Morning, which has now been reissued on CD. With drums missing from this session, it doesn't have the rhythmic impetus of his previous recordings as leader, instead its floaty ambient dreamscape verges on new age. A few Oslo Philharmonic orchestra members expand the textural sound canvas, and there's an experimental edge at times, such as the distorted oboe feature on final track ‘Moana II’ and Brüninghaus' piano flourishes might be for the most part too decorative. For Weber and ECM completists only.