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Hymn Of Remembrance 4:10 ░░ 02. Spheres (1st Movement) 7:42 ░░ 03. Spheres (2nd Movement) 13:04 ░░ 04. Spheres (3rd Movement) 10:15 ░░ 05. Spheres (4th Movement) 12:24 ░░ 06. Spheres (5th Movement) 4:39 ░░ 07. Spheres (6th Movement) 11:25 ░░ 08. Spheres (7th Movement) 8:19 ░░ 09. Spheres (8th Movement) 5:20 ░░ 10. Spheres (9th Movement) 12:05 ░░ 11. Hymn Of Release 4:10 ░░ ░░ ░░ ░░ ╔═══════════════╗ ░░ ║ N O T E S ║░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ ░░ ╚═══════════════╝▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ░░ ░░ There are musicians and there are magicians. Keith Jarrett is of the ░░ latter persuasion. Whenever his fingers touch the keyboard, they seem to ░░ have plunged into earth and anointed themselves with million-year-old ░░ magma before committing themselves to ivory. To be sure, he is one of the ░░ worldÆs most renowned improvisers, yet Hymns/Spheresùreleased unabridged ░░ at last in this double-CD setùdocuments an encounter with a grand Baroque ░░ organ that seems written in the stars. The organ in question was built by ░░ Karl Joseph Riepp in the eighteenth century and is a spectacular ░░ instrument in its own right. In communication with Jarrett, it produces ░░ sounds of extraordinary color and variety of register (many of the unique ░░ effects were produced by pulling stops only partway), sounds that ░░ comprise perhaps his most transcendent record to date. ░░ ░░ Trying to describe it is like painting every leaf on a tree: far easier ░░ to take a photograph and offer it in place of an inferior rendering. Yet ░░ the parsing of its canvas over the years justifies a more surgical ░░ analysis. When first reissued on CD in 1985 as Spheres (ECM 1302)ùi.e., ░░ with none of the ôHymnsö includedùit retained from those titular pieces ░░ only the 1st, 4th, 7th, and 9th Movements. Through them Jarrett was ░░ telling an eco-minded story, one that follows a single drop of water from ░░ the sky (prelude to a storm that never materializes) and freezes it in ░░ midair with winterÆs coming to the sound of one bird flying south. ░░ Feelings of ice pervade the barren trees. The laughter that once ░░ ricocheted between them now hangs from the branches, an icicle for every ░░ childÆs breath. Not all is gloom, however, for there is also a plenitude ░░ of warmth to be consumed and savored. Like a sleeping beauty who opens ░░ her eyes, only to stare into the depths of her own face, the 7th Movement ░░ stands before a mirror of inescapable meditation, while the 9th breaks ░░ thaw. Stirrings from below: beetles and earthworms unfurling with ░░ virginal respiration. A volcano erupts halfway around the world, yet you ░░ feel it in every follicle. Ships release their warning calls. You twist ░░ like a braided cord, thinner with each revolution, until your body is a ░░ wisp of molecules connecting lad, sea, and sky. ░░ ░░ Fans were rightly saddened by the 1985 reissue for lacking five of the ░░ nine ôSpheresö and the two ôHymnsö etched into the original vinyl. The ░░ Hymns are especially important in tying this intimate session together; ░░ they begin and end its otherwise incomplete circle. Like much of the ░░ once-missing material, they are fuller, rib-shattering proclamations, ░░ much in contrast to the brooding abridgement. ôHymn Of Remembranceö opens ░░ ears and hearts like a church service in which communion is taken in ░░ wafers of sound, baptism in a river of glowing breath. ôHymn Of Releaseö ░░ processes along the walls, resting behind pews in postludinal exaltation. ░░ ░░ As for the newly restored ôSpheres,ö they seem to open their mouths and ░░ eject columns of light into the very stars. Jarrett threads between the ░░ falling debris as many chords as he can before it combusts in the ░░ stratosphere (perhaps cluing us in on their collective title). If, in the ░░ 2nd Movement, we find ourselves confronted with a blinding vision of ░░ spirit, in the 3rd we are shown the opposite in tangled darkness. Jarrett ░░ resolves this tension with a pedaled drone, over which he unfurls a hefty ░░ banner of unrelenting majesty. The 5th and 6th Movements complicate this ░░ resolution with jagged memories, uncertain motives, and tattered masks. ░░ The final mystery is reclaimed in the 8th, where notes shimmer with ░░ underwater vibrato in a deepening commitment to contemplation. ░░ ░░ ItÆs a shame that over half the album should have once been sacrificed, ░░ though I wouldnÆt have programmed the Spheres reduction any differently, ░░ except perhaps to include the Hymns. Then again, a realization wraps its ░░ arms around me as I listen to the whole story anew: this music will never ░░ be complete. 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