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Jan Garbarek: Rarum: Selected Recordings of Jan Garbarek

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by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2002

Jan Garbarek's music can be summed up in one simple word: meditation. Sure, the term is loaded with overtones, both good and bad. But do not confuse meditation with mindlessness: they are polar opposites. Garbarek's thirty years with ECM (as a leader and collaborator) have yielded hundreds of melodies which lead to an infinitely light state ...

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Rites

By Jan Garbarek

Label: ECM Records
Released: 1999

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Mnemosyne

By Jan Garbarek

Label: Megafon
Released: 1999

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Jan Garbarek: Rites

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 1999

This sprawling new double CD by Jan Garbarek is an apotheosis of the vision and approach he has pursued more or less single-mindedly for almost thirty years now. Virtually all the roads he has visited in the past are revisited, in one way or another, here, and in as crisply competent and subtly virtuosic a fashion ...

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Jan Garbarek: Rites

by Glenn Astarita
February 1, 1999

It’s hard to disagree with the companion press release, which suggests that “Rites” is a World Music effort. Jan Garbarek explores his “rites of passages” and takes us on a journey that shadows Garbarek’s personal observations and life experiences. Here, Garbarek expands upon his 1996 ECM release “Visible World” with clearer output and perhaps a more ...

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