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It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice

It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
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Studio album by Jan Garbarek
Released 1985
Recorded December 1984
Genre Jazz
Length 42:36
Label ECM
Producer Manfred Eicher
Jan Garbarek chronology
Wayfarer
(1983)Wayfarer1983
It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice
(1985)
All Those Born With Wings
(1986)All Those Born With Wings1986

It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice is an album by the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek released on the ECM label and performed by Garbarek, David Torn, Eberhard Weber and Michael Di Pasqua.

Here Garbarek is approaching the extremes of his style, appearing once again with the Jan Garbarek Group. All pieces on this record are titled after quotes from poems by Tomas Tranströmer, and though the actual connection to these poems remains tenuous at best, they do add a provocative element to the pieces themselves, which beg for at least some programmatic interpretation.
Multi-instrumentalist David Torn is primarily responsible for the more aggressive edge this record takes. His guitar lines explode with energy and tension, giving Garbarek a more off-center field to play in — and considering his penchant for excessive restraint, this is a welcome environment to hear him in".

All compositions by Jan Garbarek.


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