Ended Thursday and welcomed Friday after a walk in the rain with Dis an album by Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek, recorded for ECM in December 1976 and released in May the following year.
Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:
On Dis, his eighth album for the label, Jan Garbarek slipped off his extroverted garments and into a deep look inward. One immediately notices the windharp, one of the last instruments one might expect to hear on an album filed under “Jazz,” and which would make an ECM reappearance on Arvo Pärt’s Te Deum. The windharp anchors the album into place, appearing at its center and outer edges. Added to this are the extended soliloquies of guitarist Ralph Towner, whose unmistakable 12-string graces three of the album’s six tracks... Garbarek plays like a blind scribe, scoring his runes into ephemeral surfaces: water, earth, and air.
https://ecmreviews.com/2010/12/17/dis/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQuxNak_tA&list=OLAK5uy_nplpeyXeDiEss0-wudhiAyoCEZ3udGAiQ
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