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Chris
Conway's Happy Landings -
Sky High
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1
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The
Mercurial Wave - Arrival
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2
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The
Long Winter
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3
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Golden
Steps
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4
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The
Purple Distance
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5
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Return
Ticket To Oblivion
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6
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Scarabesque
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7
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So
Long Blue
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8
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Sky
High
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9
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The
Mercurial Wave - Departures
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10
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Breather
IV - Lights Out
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Evocative piano based jazz and fusion.
A stunning set of compositions with ECM label stylings with
a touch of the cosmic. Beautifully remastered, this music
has a fresh exciting sound
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Chris
Conway -
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piano, keyboards, bamboo flute, voice, bombarde, electric 9
string guitar (9) |
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Neil
Segrott -
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bass,
electric guitar, percussion |
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John
Runcie -
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drums,
percussion, kalimba, temple bells |
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total
time 54.51
all
tracks by Chris Conway
except 9 by Conway, Segrott, Runcie
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background
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Chris
Conway's ECM styled jazz trio produced this gem of an album
in 1992, originally released on cassette. It has been remastered
from the original digital recording and sounds like it was
recorded just yesterday. It contains some of Chris Conway's
finest and most intricate jazz compositions and some phenominal
playing from all three.
Sky High was recorded live onto digital tape in the basement
studio of the University of Leicester - the band took great
pains to get the sound just right and recorded late into the
night to get the best take on each piece.
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influences
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Aparis,
Markus & Simon Stockhausen, Rainer Bruninghaus, Eberhard
Weber, Arild Andersen, Bobo Stenson, Pat Metheny, ECM
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technical
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recorded
digitally 24th, 25th, 27th August 1992. Remastered July 2009
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CC's
fave track
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So
Long Blue
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trivia
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The
Long Winter was also recorded by The Rain Garden on their
Practical Candle Magic album.
So
Long Blue eventually became a song, and was recorded ten
years later on Chris Conway's Alien
Salad Abduction album.
The
Long Winter and Golden Steps were included in The Chris
Conway Band's CD Breathtaking which
was essentially a compilation of 3 Chris Conway albums.
No
overdubbing was used on the album - it was recorded live
onto digital tape. Ambient synth work was pre-prepared on
a sequencer and triggered live by footswitch.
Sky
High is effectively this trio's 2nd album - a previous one
Meet You There was released on cassette but was not digitally
recorded and has not been rereleased.
Departures
was used in a film by Norwegian director Bjornar Bjornson.
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