This is one of my all time favorite records, Terje Rypdal was a guitar player from Iceland (?) who was down with Jan Garbarek. He did a bunch of records for ECM, and some with Flying Dutchman. I believe Terje was originally in a 60's pop group, his country's Beatles, almost, but then went on to make esoteric jazz records.
Some of the later records like that on ECM are gaaaaaay, but this one is fucking awesome. 1971. The first song "Keep It Like That = Tight", starts with a funky sparse electric bass line intro that slowly builds, until the drums (courtesy of Jon Christensen, another guy who played with Garbarek alot) comes in with a fat ass crazy heavy drum break for like 4 soild measures. But more than a rare break LP, this thing goes on to be top notch. Saxophone solo kicks it off, spacey rhodes, then Terje comes in with the shredding yet outside the box guitar solo a la Ribot at his rippingnest. Those drums!
2nd track is a sparse, spacey jam with bowed bass that is amazing.
3rd track has his wife on the free jazz vocals. Hahaha, did you notice that all those guys had their wives on their records? Larry Coryell, Sonny Sharrock, Doug Carn... all those free jazz cats. But this jam is just more of the awesome same. Then a cool interlude, then a rocking closing tune like The Blues Project on acid. Consistent all the way through. I digitized this shit so a lot of you may have it. "Bleak House" is his other must have.
TERJE RYPDAL S/T. BEST ALBUM EVER.
dc-looch
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Total Badass. He's from Norway, JKP should post a sound file of how to pronounce his name. Just found a little bio of him in a Norwegian comp I have, His Psychedelic band was called DREAM, and in 1970 he arranged the Norwegian version of Hair, Go find that!
Don't mind the later ECM stuff I've heard. Does that make me, you know...? Not that there's anything wrong with that......
I thought "Bleak House" was your favorite TR album?
"Bleak house" is my favourite Rypdal album by far (although Eos with David Darling and this one are good too) and one of my favourites, period. I mean, this guy invented trip hop without realizing it.
Pronounciation-wize...it's
Teh-rr-ye Reey-p-daal
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