Album artwork for Terje Rypdal by Terje Rypdal

Following on from the release of Terje Rypdals widely acclaimed new album Conspiracy, ECM now reissues four Rypdal recordings from the 1970s albums which helped to establish the Norwegian guitarist as a truly original force in creative music.

Rypdals ECM leader debut already maps out several areas of activity that will be of importance in the future, balancing his skills as ecstatic improviser and sound-sculptor, innovative guitarist, composer, and forward-looking bandleader. The album begins with Keep It Like That Tight , named after one of Miles Daviss terse performance instructions, which finds Rypdals group locking into a tough groove from which inspired solos arise, including a powerful tenor sax feature for Jan Garbarek, and a concluding blues-drenched solo from Rypdal over stabbing electric piano and Christensens dynamic drums.

If Bitches Brew provided one template for this approach, Rypdal and his players, with the encouragement of their producer, took that influence somewhere else. Meanwhile Rainbow and Lontano II, in striking contrast, are tone poems which open windows on Rypdals textural imagination and his feeling for sound-colour, before Tough Enough returns the listener to the world of urgent jazz-rock. From many angles, its a strong performance, and the vivid, panoramic production still feels contemporary.

Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal

ECM
Album artwork for Terje Rypdal by Terje Rypdal
CD

£11.99

Released 09/10/2020Catalogue Number

3507510

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Terje Rypdal

Terje Rypdal

ECM
Album artwork for Terje Rypdal by Terje Rypdal
CD

£11.99

Released 09/10/2020Catalogue Number

3507510

Learn more

Following on from the release of Terje Rypdals widely acclaimed new album Conspiracy, ECM now reissues four Rypdal recordings from the 1970s albums which helped to establish the Norwegian guitarist as a truly original force in creative music.

Rypdals ECM leader debut already maps out several areas of activity that will be of importance in the future, balancing his skills as ecstatic improviser and sound-sculptor, innovative guitarist, composer, and forward-looking bandleader. The album begins with Keep It Like That Tight , named after one of Miles Daviss terse performance instructions, which finds Rypdals group locking into a tough groove from which inspired solos arise, including a powerful tenor sax feature for Jan Garbarek, and a concluding blues-drenched solo from Rypdal over stabbing electric piano and Christensens dynamic drums.

If Bitches Brew provided one template for this approach, Rypdal and his players, with the encouragement of their producer, took that influence somewhere else. Meanwhile Rainbow and Lontano II, in striking contrast, are tone poems which open windows on Rypdals textural imagination and his feeling for sound-colour, before Tough Enough returns the listener to the world of urgent jazz-rock. From many angles, its a strong performance, and the vivid, panoramic production still feels contemporary.