(Contemporary Jazz) Ralph Towner - Diary - 1973, FLAC (image+.cue) lossless

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Ralph Towner / Diary
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REM GENRE "Contemporary Jazz"
REM DATE 1973
REM DISCID 660A0908
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v0.99pb5"
PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
TITLE "Diary"
FILE "Ralph Towner - Diary.flac" WAVE
  TRACK 01 AUDIO
    TITLE "Dark Spirit"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 00:00:00
    INDEX 01 00:00:33
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Entry in A Diary"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 07:17:18
    INDEX 01 07:22:08
  TRACK 03 AUDIO
    TITLE "Images Unseen"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 11:12:73
    INDEX 01 11:17:70
  TRACK 04 AUDIO
    TITLE "Icarus"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 15:28:03
    INDEX 01 15:32:33
  TRACK 05 AUDIO
    TITLE "Mon Enfant"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 21:45:33
    INDEX 01 21:50:33
  TRACK 06 AUDIO
    TITLE "Ogden Road"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 27:27:58
    INDEX 01 27:32:33
  TRACK 07 AUDIO
    TITLE "Erg"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 35:30:40
    INDEX 01 35:34:70
  TRACK 08 AUDIO
    TITLE "The Silence of A Candle"
    PERFORMER "Ralph Towner"
    INDEX 00 38:52:28
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Ralph Towner (b. Chehalis, Washington, March 1, 1940) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.

Even in the context of Towner's brilliant career, "Diary" is an outstanding album -- one of the four or five masterpieces in Towner's solo oeuvre. It's an astonishingly intimate album, almost private and hermetic as it drills down through layers of gorgeous melody to the roots of music itself in free pieces like "Entry in a Diary." This is one of the great rainy day albums of all time, featuring probing dialogues between Towner's guitar and piano, with occasional percussion. There's a tender sadness here, but there's also joy and triumph.
Note: This is *early* Towner -- the same moody genius of Oregon's "Distant Hills" and "Winter Light." The oft-played "Icarus" gets a victorious reading here, with a tension between the unbridled ecstasy of the melody and Towner's fragmented attack; "Mon Enfant" is a perfect solo guitar miniature for the ages -- one can imagine Bach hearing it and musing on its delicate melancholy; "Images Unseen" and "Entry in a Diary" extend the guitar and piano landscape into free space, adding percussion, in the manner of Oregon's set-opening improvisations; and one wishes that "Ogden Road," with its poignant exchanges between Towner's inimitable crystalline guitar and his Bill Evans-style piano meditations, would go on forever.
A fine introduction to Towner's solo work -- even more inward than, say, "Open Letter," if not quite as incendiary as "Solo Concert," and more intense than his later all-solo all-instruments outing, "Blue Sun." Highest recommendation.