Stephan Micus "To The Evening Child"


ECM 1486   314 513 780-2

Album coverPart 1 Nomad Song 8:58
 Steeldrum, Voice
Part 2 Yuko's Eyes 5:51
 Steeldrum, Dilruba
Part 3 Young Moon 5:58
 3 Steeldrums, Dilruba, Suling, Kortholt, Voice
Part 4 To The Evening Child 9:30
 11 Steeldrums, Dilruba, Nay, Voice, Sinding
Part 5 Morgenstern 2:08
 9 Steeldrums
Part 6 Equinox 9:47
 3 Steeldrums, 8 Dilruba, Nay, Kortholt
Part 7 Desert Poem 4:11
 Steeldrum, Voice

Recorded January/February 1992 at MCM Studios
Digital Mastering: Tonstudio Mahne, Dießen
Cover Photo*: Jean Gallus
Liner Photo: Ewald Ruf
Design: Dieter Rehm
Many thanks to Manfred Eicher

All music composed and played by Stephan Micus

*Movement of the stars over the Alps

An ECM Production   1992 ECM Records   Gleichmannstraße 10   8000 München 60


Steeldrums
West-Indian percussion instruments made out of old oil drums. The steeldrums used on this album have been especially designed with new tonal combinations and were made by Eckhard C. Schulz, Dortmund.

Dilruba
Indian bowed instrument with 4 metal and 24 sympathetic strings. Frets like the sitar. Bridge runs over a goat skin.

Suling
Hollow reed flute of the Balinese Gamelan orchestra.

Kortholt
Short German Renaissance reed instrument.

Nay
Ancient Egyptian hollow reed flute.

Sinding
West African harp with five strings made of hemp. The resonating body is a gourd stretched with a goat skin.

Photo from cover


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