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Thanks for the Terje Rypdal tip off!

His style was so out there and like so many other musicians in Europe he also did some jazz with it.
 
I first heard him with an album called "Odyssey", and he did a couple of shows with Ash Ra Tempel in London ... and I kept thinking ... you don't do that unless you are spacy, atmospheric and out there! ... yep ... even though some of that album was slightly jazz'y, there were some really neat things. A couple of years later he matched up with American Bass Player David Darling, and their album "EOS" is out of this world.
 
Some of it was used as the soundtrack for Xavier Koller's Oscar winning film "Journey of Hope" about the Kurds in Europe. This film also used music by Jan Garbarek, from "Eventyr".
 
It was kind of weird when I'm putting on "Amused to Death some years ago, only to find that Jeff Beck was going what Terje had already done years before. In so many ways, this reminds me of Daevid Allen or Steve Hillage's use of the glissando ... it comes off like a keyboard ... wait ... it's not a keyboard ... but it adds something else to the music that makes it different.
 
Jeff Beck is good, very good in my book, and I've always enjoyed a lot of things he has done ... and I'm glad to see him get out of the pop music mold and do different things and trying the Turandot piece is interesting ... but still not better than Renata Tebaldi!