''Castalia'' (1988) is an album by the American

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er/ synthesist

Mark Isham Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and film composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on numerous films and ...

. The title refers to the mythical spring

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. This album features a larger ensemble of musicians than Isham's previous albums. Artists who performed on this album include guitarists

David Torn David M. Torn (born May 26, 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer. He is known for combining electronic and acoustic instruments and for his use of looping. Background Torn has contributed to recordings by artists as diverse ...

and Peter Maunu, bassist Patrick O'Hearn, drummer

Terry Bozzio Terry John Bozzio (born December 27, 1950) is an American drummer best known for his work with Missing Persons and Frank Zappa. He has been featured on nine solo or collaborative albums, 26 albums with Zappa and seven albums with Missing Perso ...

and vocalist

Gayle Moran Gayle Moran (born 1943) is a vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter. She is from Spring Arbor, Michigan and graduated from Spring Arbor High School (now Spring Arbor University) in 1961. She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the ...

. O'Hearn, Bozzio and Maunu were all in Isham's early band Group 87. Torn's atmospheric guitar work and O'Hearn's bass playing make a major contribution to the unique style of this album. Most of the pieces are in a long format, often beginning with subtle ambient textures and bursting into more active compositions. The song "In the Warmth of Your Night" is only available on CD and was available on Cassette. The album's cover artwork features illustrations of the Lissajous apparatus.

Track listing (Long Play)

Track listing (Compact Disc and Cassette)

Personnel

– trumpet, keyboards, electronics, J.L. Cooper/Perkins

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trumpet (track 2), electronic percussion (track 2), flugelhorn (track 3) *

– lap steel guitar (track 1), electric guitar (tracks 2 - 4 and 6), acoustic guitar (track 6) *

– drums (tracks 1, 5 and 7) *

Mick Karn Andonis Michaelides (Greek: Αντώνης Μιχαηλίδης; 24 July 1958 – 4 January 2011), better known as Mick Karn, was an English-Cypriot musician and songwriter who rose to fame as the bassist for the art rock/ new wave band Japan. H ...

– electric bass (track 1) * Peter Maunu – acoustic guitar (tracks 2 and 4) electric guitar (track 6) *

Paul McCandless Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon. He is one of the few jazz oboists. He also plays bass clarinet, English horn, flute and soprano saxoph ...

– English horn (tracks 2 and 3), bass clarinet (tracks 2 and 6), soprano saxophone (track 2), sopraninorota saxophone, (track 2),

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(track 3) * Patrick O'Hearn – electric bass (track 3, 5 and 6) * Bill Douglass – acoustic bass (tracks 3 and 6) * Kurt Wortman – electronic drums and percussion (track 3), Xianjiang tambourine (track 6) * Mark Adler - string arrangement (track 4) *

– vocals (tracks 5 and 7) * John Isham – Great Highland Bagpipe (track 7) * Gary Clayton –

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References

;Sources * CD liner notes {{Authority control Mark Isham albums 1988 albums Virgin Records albums