''Too Far To Whisper'' is the fifth studio album by

new-age New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars conside ...

group Shadowfax, the fourth and final for Windham Hill Records.

Track listing

# "Too Far To Whisper" (

G. E. Stinson Gregory E. Stinson, better known as G. E. Stinson (born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma), is an American guitarist and founding member of new age/electronic musical group Shadowfax. Inspired by blues masters such as Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters, Stinson ...

) – 4:36 # "What Goes Around" (Stinson) – 4:29 # "China Blue" (Phil Maggini) – 4:11 # "The Orangutan Gang (Strikes Back)" ( David C. Lewis) – 3:53 # "Road To Hanna" (

Charlie Bisharat Charlie Bisharat is an American violinist known as a member of Shadowfax and for his work in film and with other New Age Jazz artists. He was born in Inglewood, CA in 1963 to parents who immigrated to the United States from Palestine in the 1950 ...

) – 4:08 # "Streetnoise" (Greenberg) – 4:17 # "Slim Limbs Akimbo" (Stuart Nevitt) – 4:03 # "Tsunami" (Lewis) – 4:40 # "Maceo" (Maggini) – 4:01 # "Ritual" (Greenberg, Maggini, Stinson) – 4:00

Personnel

* Chuck Greenberg –

ocarina The ocarina is a wind musical instrument; it is a type of vessel flute. Variations exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is traditionally made from c ...

, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, wood flute,

Lyricon The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed. Invented by Bill Bernardi (and co-engineered by Roger Noble and with the late Lyricon performer Chuck GreenbergIngham (1998) p.184), filed for patent on ...

: violin, electric violin * Phil Maggini: Electric bass, vocals * Stuart Nevitt: percussion, drums, gong,

marimbas The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

, timbales,

xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...

, balafon, vibes, octoban *

: guitar, vocals, tamboura, mbira * David C. Lewis: synthesizer, piano, keyboards,

Moog synthesizer The Moog synthesizer is a modular synthesizer developed by the American engineer Robert Moog. Moog debuted it in 1964, and Moog's company R. A. Moog Co. (later known as Moog Music) produced numerous models from 1965 to 1981, and again from 20 ...

Additional personnel

Adam Rudolph Adam Rudolph (born September 12, 1955) is a jazz composer and percussionist performing in the post-bop and world fusion media. In 1988, Rudolph met jazz musician Yusef Lateef, and the two would go on to collaborate and perform together for th ...

: percussion,

conga The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest). ...

, drums,

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, batá, talking drum, bird calls, gudu gudu * Morris Dollison: guitar, vocals * Emil Richards: synthesizer, percussion, drums, gong, marimbas, steel drums,

angklung The (Sundanese: ) is a musical instrument from the Sundanese people in Indonesia made of a varying number of bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved to have a resonant pitch when struck and are tuned to octaves, similar t ...

, synthesized percussion, log drums, cabasa * Hara Lambi A.: vocals, background vocals

Charts

References

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