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1998's Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints toward the smoothest of smooth jazz. As always with Spyro Gyra, the slower and more impressionistic tunes are much more interesting than the upbeat songs. Where "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" sounds like the backing track to an unreleased Deniece Williams single and "No Man's Land" and "Captain Karma" sound as if they were written as background music for the local forecasts on The Weather Channel, "Claire's Dream," by bandleader and saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, is haunting and memorable, and keyboardist Tom Schuman's "Innocent Soul" is a downright lovely mélange of Brian Eno and Erik Satie at their most lyrical. Fans who admired the more complex and occasionally even edgy sound of Spyro Gyra's earliest albums will be disappointed, but those who liked the rest of their '80s releases will find this comfortingly familiar.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
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Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Dave Samuels, Composer - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Julio Fernandez, ComposerLyricist - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 MCA Records
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Tom Schuman, Composer - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer, ComposerLyricist - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Composer, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Richie Morales, Composer - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jeremy Wall, Producer, Assistant Producer - Jay Beckenstein, Producer - Tom Schuman, ComposerLyricist - Spyro Gyra, MainArtist
℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
1998's Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints toward the smoothest of smooth jazz. As always with Spyro Gyra, the slower and more impressionistic tunes are much more interesting than the upbeat songs. Where "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" sounds like the backing track to an unreleased Deniece Williams single and "No Man's Land" and "Captain Karma" sound as if they were written as background music for the local forecasts on The Weather Channel, "Claire's Dream," by bandleader and saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, is haunting and memorable, and keyboardist Tom Schuman's "Innocent Soul" is a downright lovely mélange of Brian Eno and Erik Satie at their most lyrical. Fans who admired the more complex and occasionally even edgy sound of Spyro Gyra's earliest albums will be disappointed, but those who liked the rest of their '80s releases will find this comfortingly familiar.
© Stewart Mason /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:36
- Main artists: Spyro Gyra
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: GRP
- Genre: Jazz
© 1988 MCA Records Inc. ℗ 1988 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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