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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...
 
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  • 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..."
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