It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice

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It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
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Studio album by
Jan Garbarek
ReleasedSeptember 1985 [1]
RecordedDecember 1984
Genre Jazz
Length42:36
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
Wayfarer
(1983)		It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
(1985)		 All Those Born with Wings
(1987)
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It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice is an album by the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua. [6]

Contents

Here Garbarek is approaching the extremes of his style, appearing once again with the Jan Garbarek Group. All pieces on this record are titled after quotes from poems by Tomas Tranströmer, and though the actual connection to these poems remains tenuous at best, they do add a provocative element to the pieces themselves, which beg for at least some programmatic interpretation.
Multi-instrumentalist David Torn is primarily responsible for the more aggressive edge this record takes. His guitar lines explode with energy and tension, giving Garbarek a more off-center field to play in — and considering his penchant for excessive restraint, this is a welcome environment to hear him in". [2]

— The AllMusic review by Mark W. B. Allender, giving the album four stars

Track listing

All compositions by Jan Garbarek.

  1. "White Noise of Forgetfulness – 8:22
  2. "The Crossing Place" – 9:10
  3. "One Day in March I Go Down to the Sea and Listen" – 5:32
  4. "Mission: To Be Where I Am" – 8:08
  5. "It's OK to Phone the Island That Is a Mirage" – 5:49
  6. "It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice" – 4:41
  7. "I'm the Knife-Thrower's Partner" – 0:54

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice". ECM .
  2. 1 2 Allender, M. W. B. AllMusic review accessed 9 November 2009
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0195313734.
  4. ↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 524. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.
  5. ↑ Rigby, Paul. "Jan Garbarek - It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice". Record Collector . recordcollectormag.com. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  6. ↑ Jan Garbarek discography Archived 2009-08-20 at the Wayback Machine accessed 9 November 2009
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