I Took Up the Runes
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| Studio album by Jan Garbarek | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | August 1990 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 60:46 | |||
| Label | ECM | |||
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I Took Up the Runes is an album by Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, Rainer Brüninghaus, Eberhard Weber, Nana Vasconcelos, Manu Katché, and Bugge Wesseltoft with Ingor Ánte Áilo Gaup contributing vocals.
In a contemporaneous review, Jim Aikin described the album as a "hauntingly evocative Euro-jazz session" and identified the "Gula Gula" track as "especially memorable".
The Allmusic review by Mark W. B. Allender awards the album 3½ stars and states "A more eclectic release than his preceding releases, Jan Garbarek's I Took Up the Runes satisfies listeners who had been more or less impatient for something with some meat and some muscle... A sign of good things to come".
All compositions by Jan Garbarek except where noted.
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