Tag: Oregon

Title: Orlando & Die Unerlösten – Icetales (2004)
Genre: New Age, Classical
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

“Ice lives, ice works, groans, tears, resists the kiss of the sun. Ice has rhythm, melody and sound at the same time. Ice is music. That’s why the Icetales, the stories of ice, had to become music. The idea came to me in February 2004 on the frozen Weissensee in Carinthia. The dark core ice cracks under the temperature fluctuations and paints three-dimensional pictures with air pockets, bubbles, colors, bizarre shapes, stars, figures, delicate melodies and angular rhythms. Our music reflects this: if you listen to the inside of the songs, it’s like looking into the three-dimensionality of ice – especially in the fantastic surround sound mix of this album (to be experienced on the corresponding SACD system).” (Roland Kunz)

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Title: Oregon – Beyond Words (1995) [Reissue 2003]
Genre: Jazz
Format: MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Oregon emerged in 1970 as a splinter band from the Paul Winter Consort. Its members each had experience in jazz, classical, and a variety of non-western musical styles, and were also multi-instrumentalists.

With its combination of simple beauty and elegant intricacy, Oregon’s Beyond Words truly is. This time out, the three surviving original members of Oregon perform as a drummerless trio, handling a variety of compositions old and new, primarily from the pen of Ralph Towner. Towner’s multi-instrumental versatility highlights and undergirds the proceedings, with his beautiful classical and 12-string guitar work especially satisfying. Paul McCandless delivers his usual flawless performance on an amazing variety of woodwinds. The interplay between his bass clarinet and Glen Moore’s restored 1715 Klotz bass is superb on “Pepé Linque” and “Sicilian Walk.” Towner’s classic “The Silence of a Candle,” first recorded on the landmark Icarus with the Paul Winter Consort, is reprised here, as are several other Oregon standards, including “Witchi-Tai-To.” The only weak moments come in the set-closing “Silver Suite,” which meanders aimlessly at times. Other than that, this is an album filled with gorgeous, multi-dimensional music played by a trio of inspired virtuosos.

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