Track Listing

1. Tide Pool
2. Witchi-Tai-To
3. Ghost Beads
4. Deer Path
5. Fond Libré
6. Street Dance
7. Rainmaker
8. Poesia
9. Margueritte

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #55175 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-17
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

An Utter Beauty
Gawd, I hope this isn't a forgotten recording. This is Oregon at their early best: unselfconsciousness; innocence; no formula, no regard for sales - just love of musical communication on the most intimate scale. They understood the value of silence and patience. And Witchi-Tai To ALONE is worth buying this recording for - it, like precious few recordings, brings tears to my eyes and makes me glad to be alive and have ears.

An excellent album
Ensemble name: Oregon Album: Winter Light Year: 1974

In spite of the fact that "Winter Light" is one of the early albums of the ensemble, mature, well thought-out pieces makes up the album. The beginning "Tide Pool" is a well-constructed, serious, long piece, in which each members of the ensemble had the opportunity to prove their skill. "Witchi-tai-to" begins with a wonderfully harmonized piano-playing rendering with deep feeling in which the strings and the bass join later. "Ghost Beads" is a great piece of brilliant team-work, but the most significant part is Ralph Towner's stunning classical guitar solo in the inside of the piece. This long, incommonly inventive solo-part is ample of variegated, colourful tunes which are in a moment sober and serious and a moment later gentle, sensitive, but in both case firm and of special caracter. "Rainmaker" is another magnificent full-ensemble piece which contains a marvellous piano solo too. "Margueritte" is a worthy end of the album. There are also many superb performances of oboe ("Tide Pool", "Ghost Beads", "Rainmaker", "Margueritte"), bass ("Tide Pool", "Ghost Beads", "Margueritte") and percussion.

Possibly even their best record
I wouldn't lightly make that claim, but I have been a fan of theirs since approx 1975 and own every one of their 20- or 30-odd records, and I'd have to say that this is Oregon at their most consistent & melodic. Winter Light was their 3rd record (if you don't count the ECM contract-bucking "Solos/Trios" and the prequel "Our First Record"), released in '74 and it sold me on these guys for a lifetime... Obviously ESSENTIAL and a good starting place for novices.