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| Released | 1986 | |||
| Genre | Electronic, Jazz, New age | |||
| Length | 52:02 | |||
| Label | Windham Hill | |||
| Producer | Dawn Atkinson, William Ackerman, & Mark Isham (co-producer) [1] | |||
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Transit was the second collaborative album between keyboardist Ira Stein and oboist Russel Walder, released in 1986 by Windham Hill.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Underground" | 6:32 |
| 2. | "Engravings" | 4:04 |
| 3. | "Marseille" | 5:37 |
| 4. | "Foreign Correspondence" | 5:50 |
| 5. | "Transit" | 4:26 |
| 6. | "Lost Time" | 7:11 |
| 7. | "Circe" | 5:09 |
| 8. | "The Calling" | 4:52 |
| 9. | "Suite for Dominique: Over and Under/Round Robin/All Bounced Up" | 8:21 |
Keyboard described the album as "generally wishful, sometimes impassioned but never anguished" but wanted the album to have "more adventure in the chord progressions." [3] Meanwhile, Billboard praised the album, even comparing “The Underground” to Tangerine Dream. [4]
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