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Jan Garbarek - Officium (1993) Pochette Album Artist/Composer Jan Garbarek Length 77:34 Format CD Genre Bop; General Jazz Label ECM Index 388 Collection Status In Collection Packaging Jewel Case Track List 01 Jan Garbarek & The Hilliard Ensemble - Parce Mihi Domine 06:42 02 Primo Tempore 08:03 03 Sanctus 04:44 04 Regnantem Sempiterna 05:36 05 O Salutaris Hostia 04:34 06 Procedentem Sponsum 02:50 07 Pulcherrima Rosa 06:55 08 Parce Mihi Domine 05:35 09 Beata Viscera 06:34 10 De Spineto Nata Rosa 02:30 11 Credo 02:06 12 Ave Maris Stella 04:14 13 Virgo Flagellatur 05:19 14 Oratio Ieremiae 05:00 15 Parce Mihi Domine 06:52 Personal Price 0,00 $ Details Spars DDD Rare No Sound Stereo UPC 028944536942 Notes Recorded September 1993 Fearlessly searching for new conceptions of sound and not caring where he found them, Garbarek joined hands with the classical early-music movement, improvising around the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble. Now here was a radical idea guaranteed to infuriate both hardcore jazz buffs and the even more pristine more-authentic-than-thou folk in early music circles. Yet this unlikely fusion works stunningly well - and even more hearteningly, went over the heads of the purists and became a hit album at a time (1994) when Gregorian chants were a hot item. Chants, early polyphonic music, and Renaissance motets by composers like Morales and Dufay form the basic material, bringing forth a cool yet moving spirituality in Garbarek's work. Recorded in a heavily reverberant Austrian monastery, the voices sometimes develop in overwhelming waves, and Garbarek rides their crest, his soprano sax soaring in the monastery acoustic, or he underscores the voices almost unobtrusively, echoing the voices, finding ample room to move around the modal harmonies yet applying his sound sparingly. Those with nervous metabolisms may become impatient with this undefinable music, but if you give it a chance, it will seduce you, too.