Paul Winter & The Earth Band, Journey with the Sun - 1h 6m 4s

Tracks & Durations

1. Caravan at Dawn	6:26
2. First Oasis	4:11
3. Broken Arm	6:09
4. Mountain Wedding	4:43
5. Cave of the Winds	5:49
6. Pas de Deux	2:46
7. Singing to the Mountain	4:48
8. Middle Oasis	5:26
9. Yabu	5:01
10. Green Grass, It Grows Bonny	5:03
11. Last Oasis	4:02
12. Land of the Pipers	5:21
13. Oror Bubrik	6:12

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Review

Each year during the winter and summer solstices, Paul Winter plays dawn concerts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He gathers a crew of international players to join his core consort members, cellist Eugene Friesen and keyboardist Paul Halley, to create a global chamber music. Journey with the Sun draws on compositions that have emerged from the last two years' performances. Although Paul Winter is clearly the leader here, the album focuses on Turkish-Armenian singer and percussionist Arto Tuncboyaciyan, who has become a dominating force in the solstice shows in recent years. He sings in a hybrid language of vocables, not unlike Lisa Gerrard or Azam Ali of Vas. An immensely soulful singer, he draws on the same Armenian well of melancholy that also sustains Armenian doudouk master Djivan Gasparyan. Journey with the Sun opens with "Caravan of Dawn," with Tuncboyaciyan's faux call to prayer sending the group into a whirling dervish of Middle Eastern percussion. Paul Winter gives what may be his most wailing solo in years as he merges into a storm of zurnas and the digital santoor of Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Among the many guests on the album, Hart is joined by Irish singer Niamh Parsons, Romanian pan-pipe player Damian Draghici, and Irish uilleann piper Davy Spillane. From the exuberant Balkan influences "Mountain Wedding" to the more serene spaces of "Cave of Winds" and "Pas de Deux," Journey with the Sun extends Winter's global chamber music once again. --John Diliberto

1. Caravan at Dawn
2. First Oasis
3. Broken Arm
4. Mountain Wedding
5. Cave of the Winds
6. Pas de Deux
7. Singing to the Mountain
8. Middle Oasis
9. Yabu
10. Green Grass, It Grows Bonny
11. Last Oasis
12. Land of the Pipers
13. Oror Bubrik

Format: CD

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