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Ray Russell - Why Not Now (Expanded Edition) (1988/2004/2023)

Posted By: Rtax

Date: 29 Aug 2023 16:11:26

Ray Russell - Why Not Now (Expanded Edition) (1988/2004/2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 436 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 198 MB
1:14:28 | Electronic, Jazz, New Age, Ambient | Label: Cherry Red Records

Why Not Now is a remastered reissue of an album by British jazz guitarist Ray Russell. Recorded in 1987 and originally released on the tiny Theta label under the name Childscape, Why Not Now is a unique blend of progressive jazz and space rock that manages to escape the clichés of new age music (despite the presence of some extremely dated synthesizer sounds) in favor of a calm, hallucinatory stillness that owes much to Gil Evans' '50s charts for Miles Davis. Evans, in fact, appears on the album, playing electric piano on his own composition, "The Pan Piper," and serving as the subject of the lovely closer "Sketches of Gil," completed shortly before the master arranger's death. The other ten tracks are similarly placid, built on overdubbed layers of Russell's Bill Nelson-like treated guitar soundscapes and the ambient keyboards of Mark Isham and Tony Hymas, over which Russell (and occasionally Isham, who doubles on trumpet) spins delicate, crystalline solos unencumbered by the sort of fast-fingered showiness that usually ruins this sort of album. This is not a "player" album, but it's also not quite melodically minimal enough to truly be ambient music. Perhaps the closest comparison is to David Sylvian's quiet art pop, or the post-minimalist experiments of Michael Nyman.

- Stewart Mason

Tracklist
1. Outland (05:14)
2. Prelude 1 (00:48)
3. Pour Me A Fish (03:43)
4. Blue Shoes - No Dance (03:18)
5. Lunday Island (02:45)
6. The Pan Piper (06:33)
7. Childscape (05:01)
8. Point Perfect (03:42)
9. Prelude 2 (00:31)
10. If Only… (03:14)
11. Murmurs In Reverse (04:33)
12. Sketches Of Gil (02:41)
13. Avian (bonus track) (08:08)
14. No Step (bonus track) (08:55)
15. Snow (A Passing Phase) (bonus track) (06:43)
16. A Table Near The Band (bonus track) (08:39)

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