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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Señor Mouse
2. Arise, Her Eyes
3. I'm Your Pal
4. Desert Air
5. Crystal Silence
6. Falling Grace
7. Feelings and Things
8. Children's Song
9. What Game Shall We Play Today
DISC 2:
1. Duet Suite
2. Children's Song No. 15
3. Children's Song No. 2
4. Children's Song No. 5
5. Children's Song No. 6
6. Radio
7. Song To Gayle
8. Never
9. La Fiesta
DISC 3:
1. Señor Mouse
2. Bud Powell
3. Crystal Silence
4. Tweak
DISC 4:
1. I'm Your Pal/Hullo, Bolinas
2. Love Castle
3. Falling Grace
4. Mirror, Mirror
5. Song To Gayle
6. Endless Trouble, Endless Pleasure
Album Notes
Personnel: Chick Corea (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone).
Recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo, Norway on November 6, 1972.
Personnel: Chick Corea (piano); Gary Burton (vibraphone).
Audio Mixer: Martin Wieland.
Liner Note Authors: Peter Rüedi; Steve Lake.
Recording information: Arne Bendiksen Studio, Oslo (11/1972); Delphian Foundation, Sheridan, Oregon (10/1978); Limmathaus, Zürich (10/28/1979).
Photographers: Ralph Quinke; Ib Skovgaard.
This 1973 album of piano and vibraphone duets helped to put ECM Records on the map. Others might trace a line that began here and led to the wallpaper monotony of new age music. But Burton and Corea can't be held responsible for that. CRYSTAL SILENCE is filled with invention, surprise, humor, sadness, and tremendous verve. The interplay is perfect--the two instruments dance around one another and merge into a single voice. It also helps that the material is equal to these two fine players, always spurring them on.
There are five pieces by Corea, three more by bass player Steve Swallow (who worked with Burton through most of the sixties), and one by British composer Michael Gibbs. What is most striking is the manner in which a melody can start on one instrument and then continue on the other. They pass themes and embellishments back and forth with the ease of a weaver. This is an exceptional album of great beauty.
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