The globe-trotting fusion sounds of multi-instrumentalist Stephan Micus may be tough to describe, but they combine to make simply gorgeous music. Wings over Water, recorded in 1982, is certainly no exception. The six-part work features arrangements that sound impossibly complex ("Part 1" features five acoustic guitars and the ney, an Egyptian reed flute; "Part 3" is for two Spanish guitars and nine flowerpots), but they come off as soothing, gamelan-influenced folk music. More contemplative than Micus's The Garden of Mirrors, the compositions on Wings over Water unfold organically and slowly, with plenty of hypnotic passages and ethereal flute work. --Jason Verlinde
Wings over Water,Stephan Micus,Ecm Records,Ambient,Ethnic Fusion,Minimalism,Neo-Classical,New Age / Meditation,Pop
Jazz Music:
- With Joe & Pat La Barbera / Don Thompson
- Yano Mori
- 1921-1923
- 1935-1944
- 1952-1953
- 1953
- A Gift for You
- Abit
- Alter Ego
- Artie Shaw
Jazz Music
Music from Six Continents (1991 Series): McKinley, Kelly
Music: Sir Thomas Beecham Conducts Schubert [Import]
Pinafore! (Original Los Angeles Cast) [Cast Recording]
Mozart: Flute Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Old Habits Die Hard, Pt. 1 [CD-single] [Import]
Mozart: Piano Concertos nos. 271, 453, and 466 / Davies, Jarrett
Mercy Mercy Mercy [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]