Name: Music of Another Present Era
Brand: Vanguard
SKU: 60096
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Music of Another Present Era

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Album: Music of Another Present Era
#	Song Title		Time
1)	North Star	More Info...
2)	The Rough Places Plain	More Info...
3)	Sail	More Info...
4)	At The Hawk's Well	More Info...
5)	Children Of God	More Info...
6)	Opening	More Info...
7)	Naiads	More Info...
8)	Shard/Spring Is Really Coming	More Info...
9)	Bell Spirit	More Info...
10)	Baku The Dream Eater	More Info...
11)	The Silence Of A Candle	More Info...
12)	Land Of Heart's Desire	More Info...
13)	The Swan	More Info...
14)	Touchstone	More Info...

Album: Music of Another Present Era
#	Song Title		Time
1)	North Star	More Info...
2)	The Rough Places Plain	More Info...
3)	Sail	More Info...
4)	At The Hawk's Well	More Info...
5)	Children Of God	More Info...
6)	Opening	More Info...
7)	Naiads	More Info...
8)	Shard/Spring Is Really Coming	More Info...
9)	Bell Spirit	More Info...
10)	Baku The Dream Eater	More Info...
11)	The Silence Of A Candle	More Info...
12)	Land Of Heart's Desire	More Info...
13)	The Swan	More Info...
14)	Touchstone	More Info...

Performer Notes

Oregon: Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn); Glen Moore (flute, acoustic & electric bass); Collin Walcott (violin, guitar, sitar, tabla, mridangam, esraj, percussion); Ralph Towner (6 & 12-string guitars, mellophone).
Recorded at Vanguard's 23rd Street Studios, New York, New York in 1973.
Personnel: Ralph Towner (guitar, 12-string guitar, classical guitar, piano); Collin Walcott (sitar, violin, mradangam, tabla, percussion); Glen Moore (flute, piano, electric bass, bass guitar); Paul McCandless (oboe, English horn).
Audio Mixer: John Woram.
Recording information: Vanguard Street Studios, NY; Vanguard's 23rd Street Studios, NY.
MUSIC FROM ANOTHER PRESENT ERA is an important early work by one of the more consistently innovative and groundbreaking jazz fusion ensembles. A quartet comprised of multi-instrumentalists, Oregon fused a chamber-style classical approach with the improvisatory range of jazz and the melodies and rhythms of Indian and African music. As their compositions often tended toward quiet, acoustic, and meditative atmospheres, Oregon seemed to bridge New Age, classical, world music, and jazz all at once, long before the synthesis of such disparate genres was fashionable. This 1972 release remains one of the group's high-water marks.
Ralph Towner's guitar skills can be heard to fine effect on "Sail" (in dialogue with Glen Moore's bass and Collin Walcott's propulsive tablas). "Baku the Dream Eater" features an interesting play of brass, and "The Swan" is dreamy and alluring. Though the compositions on MUSIC FROM ANOTHER PRESENT ERA sound studied and precise, they are always marked by the freedom of improvisation (especially on the medley of "Shard/Spring Is Really Coming"), as well as complexity, sensitivity, and an expansive, all-inclusive approach that keeps the album sounding fresh decades later.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (8/2/73, p.48) - "...The band is equally at home with baroque counterpoint, Indian raga, harmonically-advanced improvising, rock rhythms and contemporary classicism..."