Indian Summer
Artist: Friedemann
Title: Indian Summer
Catalog-Nr.: 66301
Format: CD
Playing Time: 47:36
Release Date: January 1987
Label: Biber Records
Distribution: Inakustik, Germany
The album which in 1987 took the musical world by storm and paved the way for a new style of music, later to be called »New Instrumental Music«, is still gaining many new fans today.
»Rather than wimpy guitar noodling, Friedemann's music is somewhere between Ralf Towner/Oregon and Michael Oldfield, Pierre Moerlin's Gong, and other similar areas of progressive rock, with a touch of Steve Reich's interlocking rythms... A very nice surprise«
OPTION (Los Angeles)
»A picturesque, lively, swinging, folk-based music, unabashed by conflict and contoured with powerful splashes of jazz«
(DIE ZEIT, Hamburg)
»A milestone of new instrumental music«
(STUTTGARTER ZEITUNG)
»A finely nuanced euphonic synthesis tinged with chamber-music hues«
(FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG)
Musicians:
Friedemann: guitars, bass, zither, harp, voice
Johannes Wohlleben: keys, grand piano, chinese dulcimer
Büdi Siebert: sax, bass clarinet, flute, marimba, percussion
Philippe Geiss: soprano sax, percussion
Émmanuel Séjourné: marimba, vibes, percussion
Simon Pomarat: darbuka, palmas
Dieter »Dizzy« Pandtle: tablas, bongos
Detlef Engelhard: trumpet
Anne Haigis: voice
Recorded 1984 – 1986 at Tonstudio Zuckerfabrik,
Melody Tonstudio Stuttgart,
Studio Christal, Illhaeusern, Frankreich.
Mixed at Bauer Studios, Ludwigsburg.
Engineered by Johannes Wohlleben.
Tracklist:
01 - Sunshower (F. Witecka) 2:48
02 - The Eye Of The Dragonfly (F. Witecka) 3:52
03 - Sentimental Elegance (F. Witecka) 3:17
04 - Sourdos (E.Séjourné) 3:09
05 - Indian Summer (Witecka/Wohlleben) 7:27
06 - November Winds (Witecka/Wohlleben/Siebert) 4:42
07 - Lichterloh (Witecka/Wohlleben) 4:29
08 - Flight Of The Heron (F. Witecka) 6:08
09 - Russian River Ballad (Witecka/Wohlleben) 2:50
10 - Short Reminiscence Of A Long Summer (Geiss) 1:47
11 - Open Mind (Wohlleben) 2:54
12 - Kuterevka (F. Witecka) 3:53
