Sky Islands (album)
Sky Islands is the second album by Jazz fusion group Caldera released in 1977 on Capitol Records.[3] The album rose to No. 18 on the Cashbox Top 40 Jazz Albums chart.[4]
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| Studio album by Caldera | ||||
| Released | January 1, 1977 January 1, 1993 (re-release) | |||
| Recorded | December 1976 – January 1977 | |||
| Studio | Hollywood Sound | |||
| Genre | Jazz fusion | |||
| Length | 38:42 | |||
| Label | Capitol | |||
| Producer | Eduardo del Barrio, Larry Dunn, Jorge Strunz and Larkin Arnold | |||
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| All About Jazz | |
Covers
The album's title track was covered by Dianne Reeves on her 1987 self titled album and Ramsey Lewis on his 1993 LP Sky Islands.[5]
Track listing
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Sky Island" | Larry Dunn | 6:07 |
| 2. | "Ancient Source" | Eduardo del Barrio, Ernesto J.Herrera | 4:30 |
| 3. | "It Used to Be" | Eduardo del Barrio | 1:12 |
| 4. | "Pegasus" | Eduardo del Barrio, Jorge Strunz | 4:56 |
| 5. | "Carnavalito" | Eduardo del Barrio | 4:51 |
| 6. | "Seraphim" | Larry Dunn | 4:46 |
| 7. | "Indigo Fire" | Jorge Strunz | 1:06 |
| 8. | "Triste" | George del Barrio | 6:50 |
| 9. | "Pescador" | Mike Azevedo | 1:04 |
Personnel
- Jorge Strunz — acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion
- Eduardo del Barrio — acoustic piano, electric piano, synthesizers, Moog, Roland, Oberheim Polyphonic
- Steve Tavaglione — flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Mike Azeredo — congas, percussion
- Carlos Vega — drums
- Dean Cortez — electric bass
- Hector Andrade — timbales, congas, percussion
- Ernesto Herrera - lyricist.
Guests
- Larry Dunn — synthesizer (solo on track 2)
- Roberto da Silva — percussion
- Dianne Reeves — vocals (tracks 1 and 2)
- Chester Thompson — drums (track 4 only)
- Ralph Humphrey — drums (track 1 only)
- Ralph Rickert — flugelhorn (track 8 only)
- Ray Armando — percussion
- Steve Barrio, Jr. — percussion
- Paul Shure — violin
- Bonnie Douglas — violin
- Harry Bluestone — violin
- Marshall Sosson — violin
- Nathan Ross — violin
- Antol Kaminsky — violin
- Jack Pepper — violin
- Irma Neumann — violin
- Janet Lakatos — viola
- Louis Kievman — viola
- Fredrick Seykora — cello
- Selene Hurford — cello
- Shusei Nagaoka - cover art[3]
gollark: My crazily convoluted base so far.
gollark: I'll make an AE2 one if I figure out the fundamental problem of "where in the base does this go?"
gollark: TRAITOR!
gollark: Hmm, that gives me an idea...
gollark: Also, all the configuration made it annoying to (dis)assemble.
References
- Henderson, Alex. "Caldera: Sky Islands". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
- Baekgaard, Jakob (May 25, 2019). "Caldera: Caldera / Sky Islands". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz.
- Caldera: Sky Islands. Capitol Records. 1977.
- "Top 40 Jazz Albums". archive.org. Vol. 39 no. 35. Cashbox. January 28, 1978. p. 43.
- "Caldera: Sky Islands". secondhandsongs.com.
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