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Chris
Conway's debut album Remastered on CD for the first time Chris Conway's debut
album from 1990 is full to the brim with ideas and creative
energy. Featuring a remarkable selection of musicians, including
a blackbird that used to sing outside his house at 4am. Atmospheric
jazz, world music and electronics meet on 4am.
I
laid grand plans for my solo album in the spring of 1990. I
called up a lot of musicians - mostly friends from my jazz bands
or from The Rain Garden band extended family. I also experimented
with electronics, live sequencing and even electronic jazz drums
which sounded cool at the time. There were some very ambitious
arrangements and listening now I can sense the charged energy
of these sessions.
Jazz, elaborate pastoral works, minimal organ pieces and electronic
adventures all can be found here. Atmosphere with a capital
A was the holy grail of the time. A permanent twilight magical
world - that was the kind of bubble I dreamed of and tried to
create.
There was a lot of influences from ECM artists like Rainer Bruninghaus
and Ralph Towner, plus Terry Riley and on And Suddenly It's
Evening a complete homage to Terje Rypdal.
Heady days - amazing to think it was all done on a 4 track recorder.
influences
Steve
Kuhn, Terry Riley, Ralph Towner, Rainer Bruninghaus, Palle Mikkelborg,
Terje Rypdal, Bobo Stenson, ECM, Oregon, Collin Walcott, The
Rain Garden
trivia
The
Missing Years - is still in my duo jazz set with Andy Nicholls
jazz. The theme turns up in 3/4 time as part of on You'll
Never Know on the the CCs Happy Landings album Think
Blue Count Two.
Ellergarth was the name of bassist Steve Lee's house where we
played a lot of music in our schooldays.
Never One Day appears solo on the Sanctuary
album as One Day Never
Chasing Rainbows developed into a song and can be heard
on Chris Conway's Sounds Like Rain
album.
The blackbird on A World Apart - 4am used to sing outside
my house at 4am. So I set up the microphones outside my door
and recorded live with the Blackbird, adding Nick Hislam's sax
afterwards.
Drummer Dave Hunt passed aweay some years ago - this re-release
is dedicated to his memory.
And
Suddenly It's Evening is a quote from Salvatore Quasimodo's
poem of the same name.
