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Cat-No:es021-fh001
Release-Date:19.07.2024
Configuration:LP Excl
Barcode:4251804125482
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Cat-No:es021-fh001
Release-Date:19.07.2024
Configuration:LP Excl
Barcode:4251804125482
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Singing Dust - 1. Involution
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Singing Dust - 2. Let Me Take Your Name
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Singing Dust - 3. Song Of The Reed
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Singing Dust - 4. Sweet Agony
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Singing Dust - 5. Love Flower
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Singing Dust - 6. Love Is Lovely And Lowly
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Singing Dust - 7. Desert Chant
2024 Re release edition

LP with download code

Tracklist

1. Involution
2. Let Me Take Your Name
3. Song Of The Reed
4. Sweet Agony
5. Love Flower
6. Love Is Lovely And Lowly
7. Desert Chant

Short info:

Newly formed archival label Fresh Hold presents one of Australia’s most mysterious jazz long players - Singing Dust, in collaboration with Efficient Space. Almost bound for obscurity from its inception, the eponymous creation of Queensland-based jazz pianist Robert Welsh was originally issued in 1986 on Melbourne independent label Cleopatra Records. Rich in compositional sophistication and expressive performance, Singing Dust resembles a unique fusion of Indian devotional song, the jazz piano styles of Bill Evans and Keith Jarrett, English folk and Debussey’s tonal impressions, bearing little similarity to the dominant commercial and subcultural music of its time.

Representing a culmination of Welsh’s influences in and outside of music, the dynamic collection of seven compositions accompany the Ghazal devotional poems translated by Australian poet Francis Brabazon. While Singing Dust sits loosely within the spheres of exploration that many jazz players took into world fusion in the '80s, it stands alone in its bright searing light of truth, love and austerity.

A true work of dedication and posterity that will appeal to many serious music lovers, the album has finally been transferred and remastered from original tapes by Dan Elleson, superseding the imperfect 1986 pressing and fully realising Welsh’s expansive vision.
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