2LP Edition Release Date: 16/10/2026 Label: ECM Records
Description
Jan Garbarek’s powerful 1998 double-album is a magnum opus, and well-titled. “Rites” suggests initiations, rituals, the archaic, the magical, but also “rites of passage,” and the Norwegian saxophonist reflects, in his choice of material, upon pivotal episodes and influences in his own life and those of his associates. Pieces include a tribute to Don Cherry and reworkings of the Garbarek classics, “It’s OK to listen to the gray voice” and “So mild the wind, so meek the water.” There are abundant references to scattered music of the world, from Norway to India, as well as a setting – for voices and saxophone – of a Native American poem, and the surprise inclusion of Jansug Kakhidze’s “The moon over Mtatsminda,” sung by its composer with the Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra. In total, this is the most comprehensive recording Jan Garbarek has made to date, and his subtle saxophone artistry has never been more persuasive. 2-LP set.
A1 Rites
A2 Where The Rivers Meet
A3 Vast Plain, Clouds
A4 So Mild The Wind, So Meek The Water
B1 Song, Tread Lightly
B2 It's OK To Listen To The Gray Voice
B3 Her Wild Ways
B4 It's High Time
C1 One Ying For Every Yang
C2 Pan
C3 We Are The Stars
C4 The Moon Over Mtatsminda
D1 Malinye
D2 The White Clown
D3 Evenly They Danced
D4 Last Rite
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