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Theme to the Gaurdian

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Released
  
1975

Genre
  
Jazz

Label
  
ECM

Recorded
  
November 1974

Length
  
40:30

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

Theme to the Gaurdian is the debut album by American guitarist and composer Bill Connors recorded in 1974 and released on the ECM label.

Contents

Critical reception

The Allmusic review by John W. Patterson awarded the album 4 stars stating "this release of Connors is truly excellent acoustic guitar work with some of the most unique compositions and playing style you will find anywhere. Connors dubs one track as a sort of complex and exotic chordal progression base structure of strummed rhythms and/or a tapestry of finger roll picking. Over this landscape of dreamy, moody, surreal or frenetic design Connors solos and augments the original track of his playing. The effect is a ghostly dance of melancholy angst and passionate wailings".

Track listing

All compositions by Bill Connors unless noted.

  1. "Theme to the Gaurdian" - 5:20
  2. "Childs Eyes" - 4:26
  3. "Song for a Crow" - 4:16
  4. "Sad Hero" - 4:30
  5. "Sea Song" (Glenn Cronkhite) - 5:06
  6. "Frantic Desire" - 2:56
  7. "Folk Song" - 6:37
  8. "My Favorite Fantasy" - 4:26
  9. "The Highest Mountain" - 3:25
  • Recorded at Arne Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, Norway in November 1974

    • Personnel

  • Bill Connors — guitar

    • References

    Theme to the Gaurdian Wikipedia
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