℗ 1981 ECM Records
Released | August 9, 2019 |
Originated | October 1, 1981 |
Duration | 43m 37s |
Record Label | ECM Records |
Genre | Jazz |
1.1
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Soaring
Gallery |
7:38 | |||
1.2
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Prelude
Gallery |
0:44 | |||
1.3
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A Lost Game
Gallery |
8:14 | |||
1.4
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Painting
Gallery |
4:26 | |||
1.5
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Pale Sun
Gallery |
7:21 | |||
1.6
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Egert
Gallery |
8:35 | |||
1.7
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Night Rain
Gallery |
6:39 |
Another enigmatic outlier in the land of the as-yet-to-be-reissued, Gallery follows in the tender footsteps of First Avenue. Its talents are immediately sent skyward in “Soaring,” where the sprightly vibes of Dave Samuels find complement in bassist Ratzo Harris and cellist David Darling, both of whom roll off Michael DiPasqua’s delicate snare and cymbals like words from a poet’s tongue. Darling takes some of the album’s most gorgeous improvisatory turns here. His fluid lines continue in “Prelude,” a duet with Samuels that shares the same breath with “A Lost Game.” The latter is transitory, not unlike the album as a whole, playing out especially in the rhythmic crosspollination between vibes and drums, slung ever so delicately by the bass’s curves. Paul McCandless lays the gold foil of his own beauties with a soprano sax solo that takes this configuration to greater heights, surpassed only by the reflective cello that follows. “Painting” sounds like a Gavin Bryars ensemble piece, unfolding into the remnants of a Morton Feldman dream before awakening in the harmonic contract of a “Pale Sun.” On then does the “Egret” drop us in limpid vibrations, where only a hushed “Night Rain” shows us the final trail.
As the album’s title indicates, this music offers a row of artful images. Yet rather than guide us through a linear passage of creative relics, it brings that passage to us, so that we need only observe…and listen.
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – ECM Records Studio Masters
Tracks 1-7 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Tracks 1-7 – contains high-resolution digital transfers of material originating from an analogue master source
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.59 -7.26 to -0.71 | -21.14 -23.89 to -19.87 | -17.86 -20.90 to -16.30 | 11 9 to 13 | |
1 | Soaring | -0.71 | -20.17 | -16.8 | 12 |
2 | Prelude | -7.26 | -23.89 | -20.9 | 9 |
3 | A Lost Game | -1.49 | -20.25 | -16.9 | 12 |
4 | Painting | -3.75 | -22.16 | -18.7 | 11 |
5 | Pale Sun | -1.26 | -21.04 | -18.0 | 13 |
6 | Egert | -1.12 | -19.87 | -16.3 | 12 |
7 | Night Rain | -2.56 | -20.63 | -17.4 | 11 |