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| 1. Morning Watch A Song Of Joys |
| 2. Here To Burn |
| 3. Four Points Are Thus Beheld |
| 4. Infant Joy |
| 5. Dalliance Of Eagles |
| 6. Abstinence Sows Sand |
| 7. Journey |
| 8. Terrible Doubt/Price Of Experience |
| 9. West From California's Shores |
| 10. Shepherd's Tune |
| 11. Map With No North |
| 12. Spider |
| 13. Fly |
| 14. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry |
| 15. World Of Light |
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Album Description
'Skirting The River Road' is the second ECM recording by Scottish singer/songwriter Robin Williamson. It follows his critically praised solo album 'The Seed-At-Zero', which set texts by Dylan Thomas. The new album finds a thread of continuity that links three visionary poets - Walt Whitman, William Blake, and Henry Vaughan - and places their work in an improvisational context. There are also new songs by Williamson himself and a radical remake of an early classic, "Here To Burn."
Williamson is usually considered a "folk" musician - his roots are certainly in the world's folk traditions - but he has also always been an experimentalist. The Incredible String Band (which he co-founded) was an autonomous, homemade 'avant-garde' unit in the 1960s, outside all the idioms but instinctively reaching for new forms, with Williamson's soaring voice leading the way.
For 'Skirting the River Road' ECM put together a top-flight ensemble that would match Williamson's creative imagination. The featured players, most well-known to ECM fans, are gifted improvisers of wide reach and expression, who between them span jazz, free music and folk: American string-player Mat Maneri, Swedish folk multi-instrumentalist Ale Möller and two of this country's exceptional improvisers, Paul Dunmall and jazz bassist Mick Hutton.
Robin Williamson hadn't worked with any of the musicians before but empathy was immediately established. He'd made melodic sketches for roughly half the material, leaving plenty of room for spontaneous arrangement by the band members playing over 20 instruments between them. The result is an album of compelling freshness and originality.
Recorded 2001
Personnel:
Robin Williamson - (vocals, harp, guitar, whistles), Mat Maneri - (viola, violin), Paul Dunmall - (tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, border pipes, ocarina, moxeno), Ale Möller - (mandola, lute, hammered dulcimer, shawm, clarino, drone flutes, natural flutes, bamboo flutes, vibraphone), Mick Hutton - (double-bass)
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