Listen & tracks
2 of 24 tracks have a preview · 12 works · 90:39
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1 Green Hill Country John Sangster 9:03
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2 The Lonely Mountains John Sangster 5:49
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3 Summer's Solstice John Sangster 5:29
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4 The Old Forest John Sangster 6:59
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5 Laurelindorenan John Sangster 8:50
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6 Fangorn John Sangster 7:59
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7 A Dance for the New Forest John Sangster 8:20
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8 Winter's Solstice John Sangster 6:58
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9 Summer's Reprise John Sangster 10:13
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201 Panorama from Tower Hills John Sangster 10:04
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202 Star Opening John Sangster 6:03
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203 Weathertop John Sangster 4:52
As well as the music from the original LPs, a video shot in New Zealand offers ravishing landscapes akin to those in the film trilogy, with Sangster’s music as soundtrack.
These twelve pieces sit beside Sangster’s The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1, Vol. 2 and Vol. 3: quieter landscapes of time and place, for woodwinds, guitars, strings, percussion and voices rather than brass.
In the artist’s words
These twelve compositions are meant as companion pieces to the musics contained in the trilogy of double albums The Lord of the Rings. Not quite so specific this time, rather a feeling of time, of place, of landscape. No brass, to begin with. More reflective. Woodwinds, guitars, strings, percussions and rhythms. A feeling of countryside. Evocations, paintings … landscapes.
Reviews
The mercurial quality shimmering around Jim Kelly’s guitar playing melds easily with Sangster’s musical vision – a vision that sounds astonishingly timeless three decades on.
Sangster’s enchantment ran deep, and it shows.
Some of this prolific composer’s most reflective writing complemented by superb solos from Don Burrows and Graeme Lyall
Artists
John Sangster
vibraphone, marimba, percussion
John Sangster (1928–1995) was an Australian jazz composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist whose work stretched from traditional jazz and film scores to large-scale suites of uncommon range, humour and colour.
Digital booklet
Digital booklet Notes, texts and credits — read online or download the PDF Download the PDFPerformers
- John Sangster · vibraphone, marimba, percussion
- Don Burrows · bass flute, alto flute, c flute, school flute (fife), clarinet
- Graeme Lyall · soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Jim Kelly · guitar
- George Golla · guitar
- Greg Lyon · bass
- Doug Gallagher · drums
- Ian Bloxsom · percussion
- Claire Poole Singers · vocals · disc 1 track 9; disc 2 track 3
- Peader O'Carrol · harp · disc 1 tracks 1 and 4; disc 2 tracks 1 and 3
- John Lyle · leader of the strings · all except disc 1 tracks 3, 5–7 and 9; disc 2 track 2
Technical credits
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Producer
John Sangster
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Recording Engineer
Martin Benge
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Mixing Engineer
Martin Benge
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Mastering Engineer
Martin Wright
Vaughan McAlley
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Venue
EMI Studios 301
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Credit
Howard Hughes
John Franklin
Martin Wright
Details
- List price
- $25.00 AUD
- Total playing time
- 90 minutes 39 seconds
- Release date
- 2006
- Categories
- Australian, Jazz
- Genre
- Jazz & Improvised
- Musical work copyright
- © 1978 John Sangster
- Sound recording copyright
- ℗ 2006 Move Records
- Catalogue
- MD 3254
- EAN
- 9314574325423
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The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 1
Not Howard Shore's film score, but Australian jazz and film composer John Sangster's ambitious 1970s musical portrait of Tolkien's characters and events, restored here on a double CD more than twenty-five years after the original EMI LPs.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 2
The second volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic on The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this music reaches CD for the first time in this Move reissue.
The Lord of the Rings, Vol. 3
The third volume of John Sangster's classic jazz epic after J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. First issued by EMI as a double LP more than twenty-five years earlier, this ambitious Australian trilogy reaches CD for the first time here.
Jazz Music Series (set)
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Jazz Music Series, Vol. 5: Ripper
The fifth and final volume in John Sangster’s jazz series of suites, written for a lively little orchestra that gathers some of Australia’s finest jazz musicians around his vibraphone writing.
Jazz Music Series, Vol. 4: Take That
Volume four of John Sangster’s Jazz Music Series finds his “lively little orchestra” of leading Australian jazz players in a ten-movement suite of wit, swing and colour.