Cloud Dance (Remastered) Collin Walcott

• 1 Margueritte 08:30
• 2 Prancing 03:22
• 3 Night Glider 06:36
• 4 Scimitar 02:42
• 5 Vadana 06:57
• 6 Eastern Song 02:32
• 7 Padma 02:44
• 8 Cloud Dance 05:47
• Total Runtime 39:10

Info zu Cloud Dance (Remastered)

Collin Walcott defined a corner of improvisation all his own with his unique approach to the sitar and tabla. When the newly-formed Gateway trio of John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette joined him for “Cloud Dance” the results were magical.

Cloud Dance is the debut album by American sitarist and composer Collin Walcott, recorded in March 1975 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features rhythm section John Abercrombie, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette, the three of whom recorded their self-titled debut, Gateway that same month.

"The musicians were all top-flight and leaders in their own right. They came together and mixed the eastern and western sounds to create something like acoustic jazz-fusion with an Indian twist. Abercrombie's ethereal electric guitar, floating above and around Walcott's sitar is particularly effective in creating a dreamy, cloud-like ambience on several tunes. On the cut 'Prancing,' Walcott on tabla and Holland on bass put the 'dance' in 'Cloud Dance' with a particularly energetic and, yes, danceable performance." (Geoff Anderson, Vinyl Vault)

"one of [Walcott's] most powerful albums ever to grace ECM's vinyl ... grooves," and wrote: "The telephone wires on the cover are like the strings of some large instrument, with the sky as its sound box. Its clouds don't so much dance as perform, caressing endless waves of voices careening through the ether. The joy of Cloud Dance is that it makes those voices intelligible. Fans of Oregon, of which Walcott was of course an integral part, need look no further for likeminded contemplation." (Tyran Grillo, ECM Reviews)

Collin Walcott, sitar, tabla
John Abercrombie, guitar
Dave Holland, bass
Jack DeJohnette, drums

Digitally remastered

Collin Walcott
was born in New York City and came to Yale from Putney. Freshman year he lived alone in McClellan. He studied at the Yale School of Music, majored in percussion at Indiana University and later studied ethnomusicology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He also studied sitar with Ravi Shankar and tabla with Alla Rakha. As a classical percussionist, he performed with the Toronto, Detroit, and Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestras. After playing with the Paul Winter Consort, in the late 60s, he co-founded the quartet Oregon with Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, and Glen Moore. They made 14 albums.

Colin worked closely with Ravi Shankar and co-founded the group Codona with the trumpet player Don Cherry and the percussionist Nana Vasconcelos. He also co-produced three records with the performance artist Meredith Monk. In 1981 he performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. His biography on Wikipedia lists all the records he performed on including with Miles Davis, Richie Havens, U2 and many others.

Collin’s widow, Lanny Harrison is a character actress, dancer and cabaret artist who teaches a theater course at New York University integrating Eastern contemplative disciplines and Western theatrical technique. She wrote about him: “Collin was as close to an angel as any of us who walk this earth. He was graced with humor and brilliance. As a musician, he was daring and creative — on his own, as well as with the bands Oregon and Codona. He was a loving husband, brother, father — he used to practice tabla with our daughter Hannah Pearl cradled tween his legs. In one of our theater duets, Collin thought nothing of donning any number of costumes — transforming into a hilarious Chasidic traveler, playing sanza, with long payos and yamaka; wearing a giant bass drum around his neck, he played a thunderous solo while occasionally speaking in a Swedish accent….

He loved to garden, drive down unmarked country roads, lift the glass and toast folks with his beloved teacher Ala Rakha, have parties and dance with dear friends while wearing wigs and ridiculous hats. In Collin’s classes at Naropa University, he had his students all stand in a circle and learn rhythms by stamping their feet and singing out syllables. Collin questioned and meditated. He filled notebooks with musings and lyrics and music.”

Collin was killed November 8, 1984 in an automobile accident in East Germany during a 1984 Oregon concert tour. He was survived by his widow, Lanny Harrison, and his daughter Hannah Pearl Walcott who became a collage and performing artist. (Source: yale66.org)

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