Double Image - Dawn

ECM - LP
Germany, 1979
Ambient / Jazz / ECM 

Quintessential album from the ECM ambient jazz corpus that never got reissued! A perfect sonic trip from beginning to end. The kind of record that makes it worth buying a hi-fi. marimba, vibraharp, double bass flirting together: Eberhard Weber, Oregon, Steve Tibbets or John Clark vibes, you know the deal. 

Not much to say about it, apart from what I just wrote. It took me years, as a late teenager to put a finger on this specific sound, something that I had been unconsciously searching for for years - perhaps even since the day I first heard fusion jazz. This was the vibe I was trying to find in stuff by the likes of Steps Ahead or Pat Metheny, but there was always something that put me off, a distasteful saxophone chorus, an annoying guitar riff. If someone had played me this Dawn LP when I was 16, it would have saved me a lot of time. But damn, was it hard to navigate the Dantean ECM catalogue back then - it still is, even if they are now useful tools online, to help the Munich label's appreciator. Peak autumn vibes!
(VG+ / VG sleeve, annoying ECM laminated cover that sometimes peel off)

Tracklist

1. Passage
   
2. The Next Event
3. Sunset Glow
4. Crossing