This strikingly beautiful music is not for everyone but for me it transcends time and space...have always been a fan boy of Maestro Ralph Towner and company.
The best album by Ralph Towner is Solstice. Absolutely brillant music. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. This album never ever gets old. Every song is Excellent.
Recently got a new turntable after not having one for a couple decades. Put on this lp today while writing. Played this track over and over. So beautiful. Inspiring. An invocation.
One of the first "Jazz" records I heard, as a Jr. in High School! I was smitten! Back then (1974/75) it was very posible to see ECM artist perform in California - mostly in the Bay Area. Unfortunately now - artists like Ralph Towner, who is originally from the Pacific NW, Live, and work mostly in Europe. Ralph has been living in Italy for decades. What a cultural waste-land the States have become!
Mark, are you the Mark Darnell who composed and performed "The Age of Steam?" If that is you, what an incredible piece -- on eof my all-time favorite jazz/new-age pieces ever! Anyway, Mark, how I agree with you. Our airwaves anywhere you go in America is filled with garbage -- pure unadulterated garbage! When Oregon performed in my home town of Portland, Oregon recently, there were perhaps 200-300 people there to hear some of the finest, most creative musicians on the planet. But let a Justin Bieber or Jay-Z show up somewhere, large coliseums are filled to capacity. Does this make sense? Absolutely not. Having visited Italy recently, my God, I could live there. I'm so frustrated with the United States and our people many more ways than musically. Cultural waste-land? That is spot on -- I've used that very same term when discussing this topic with friends.
ecmcomichael1 Hola! Yes, Michael! I am that Mark Darnell, and I have been living in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende - where I recently saw Paul McCandless - & Mexico City). I agree with you about Italy. That's where Ralph Towner lives BTW - Rome! I have to return to the States to work, and make some money - unfortunately! I'm considering Portland. Anyway - I have lots of music here on youtube, under my name, and Mark Darnell Marquez. Get in touch. I'm on facebook - facebook.com/mark.darnell.39 And I'm glad you like that old Windham Hill track!
+Mark Darnell Watch out for the wall running the whole border between USA and Mexico, which, I hear on UK news, the mexicans will have to pay for! After reading this, I listened to your steam piece. Lovely, thanks. And I did meet some nice, cultured americans on my visit to Colorado Springs, so it's not all bad...
This strikingly beautiful music is not for everyone but for me it transcends time and space...have always been a fan boy of Maestro Ralph Towner and company.
The best album by Ralph Towner is Solstice. Absolutely brillant music. This is one of my favorite albums of all time. This album never ever gets old. Every song is Excellent.
Yes.
Great Music! Thank you for posting this!
Wonderful! A great early ECM masterpiece.
...and the unmistakable bass of Eberhard Weber...
Recently got a new turntable after not having one for a couple decades. Put on this lp today while writing. Played this track over and over. So beautiful. Inspiring. An invocation.
ECM beautiful albun
perfet!!!!!!
Poetry made music ....
I lived in the far north when this music was beggining to be understood in the rest of the world. Such luck.........
Distant Hills and Out in the woods, were my very favorite. True geniuses, that the europeans and russians i believe appreciated more than americans
One of the first "Jazz" records I heard, as a Jr. in High School! I was smitten! Back then (1974/75) it was very posible to see ECM artist perform in California - mostly in the Bay Area. Unfortunately now - artists like Ralph Towner, who is originally from the Pacific NW, Live, and work mostly in Europe. Ralph has been living in Italy for decades. What a cultural waste-land the States have become!
Mark, are you the Mark Darnell who composed and performed "The Age of Steam?" If that is you, what an incredible piece -- on eof my all-time favorite jazz/new-age pieces ever! Anyway, Mark, how I agree with you. Our airwaves anywhere you go in America is filled with garbage -- pure unadulterated garbage! When Oregon performed in my home town of Portland, Oregon recently, there were perhaps 200-300 people there to hear some of the finest, most creative musicians on the planet. But let a Justin Bieber or Jay-Z show up somewhere, large coliseums are filled to capacity. Does this make sense? Absolutely not. Having visited Italy recently, my God, I could live there. I'm so frustrated with the United States and our people many more ways than musically. Cultural waste-land? That is spot on -- I've used that very same term when discussing this topic with friends.
ecmcomichael1 Hola! Yes, Michael! I am that Mark Darnell, and I have been living in Mexico (San Miguel de Allende - where I recently saw Paul McCandless - & Mexico City). I agree with you about Italy. That's where Ralph Towner lives BTW - Rome! I have to return to the States to work, and make some money - unfortunately! I'm considering Portland. Anyway - I have lots of music here on youtube, under my name, and Mark Darnell Marquez. Get in touch. I'm on facebook - facebook.com/mark.darnell.39 And I'm glad you like that old Windham Hill track!
+Mark Darnell Watch out for the wall running the whole border between USA and Mexico, which, I hear on UK news, the mexicans will have to pay for! After reading this, I listened to your steam piece. Lovely, thanks. And I did meet some nice, cultured americans on my visit to Colorado Springs, so it's not all bad...