Our Secret World

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Our Secret World
Our Secret World (album cover).jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 7, 2010 (2010-09-07)
RecordedSeptember 7–9, 2009
StudioBoom Studios, Porto, Portugal
Genre Jazz
Length66:10
Label Wommusic
Producer Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pedro Guedes
Kurt Rosenwinkel chronology
Reflections
(2009)
Our Secret World
(2010)
Star of Jupiter
(2012)

Our Secret World is Kurt Rosenwinkel's ninth album as a band leader. It is a collaboration with the Orchestra de Jazz Matosinhos from Portugal. The project was begun in 2007 and was performed in 2008. [1] Recording took place over three days in September 2009. This was preceded by three days of twelve-hour rehearsals. [2]

Contents

All of the selections are by Rosenwinkel and have been a part of his songbook since the 1990s. "Dream of the Old" appeared on The Enemies of Energy . "Path of the Heart", "Zhivago", and "Use of Light" appeared on The Next Step . "Our Secret World" was on Heartcore . "The Cloister" was on Deep Song . "Turns", though an old composition, debuts on this album.

Track listing

All songs by Kurt Rosenwinkel

  1. "Our Secret World" – 6:34
  2. "The Cloister" – 9:18
  3. "Zhivago" – 8:45
  4. "Dream of the Old" – 11:34
  5. "Turns" – 6:38
  6. "Use of Light" – 10:10
  7. "Path of the Heart" – 13:08

Personnel

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References

  1. Moon, Tom (2010). Our Secret World Liner Notes.
  2. Rosenwinkel, Kurt. "Interview".