Wayne Shorter
Atlantis (LP)
LabelCBS/SonyGenreJazz & Improvisation
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1985, and after a decade of Weather Report Wayne Shorter makes a solo record that sounds like nothing else in his catalogue. Atlantis is almost entirely composed: layered synthesisers, wordless voices, woodwind textures, and structures that unfold like written pieces rather than heads followed by solos. Shorter's soprano moves through it as one voice among many rather than as the leader out front. It divided people at the time, because the jazz audience wanted him to go back to the Blue Note book, and it has aged into one of the most quietly ambitious things he did. Dense, patient, oddly beautiful.
Japanese CBS/Sony pressing. The record where Shorter the composer finally took precedence over Shorter the soloist.
Release notes
Recorded and mixed at Crystal Studios, Hollywood. "Endangered Species" recorded and mixed at Producers I&II, Los Angeles and Meta Music ℗ © 1985 CBS Inc. All songs published by Wayana Music (BMI) except: A1 published by Mah Jong Music Co. and Wayana Music (BMI) A4 published by Nohonani Music and Wayana Music (BMI) B3 published by Iska Music (BMI)
| A1 | Endangered Species | 4:45 | |
| A2 | The Three Marias | 5:48 | |
| A3 | The Last Silk Hat | 5:22 | |
| A4 | When You Dream | 4:28 | |
| B1 | Who Goes There! | 5:28 | |
| B2 | Atlantis | 4:32 | |
| B3 | Shere Khan, The Tiger | 2:14 | |
| B4 | Criangas | 3:38 | |
| B5 | On The Eve Of Departure | 5:56 |
- Larry Klein
- Bass [Fender] (A2 to B5)
- Ralph Humphry
- Drums (A1)
- Alejandro Acuna
- Drums, Percussion (A2 to B5)
- Howard Siegel
- Engineer (A2 to B5)
- Jim McMahon
- Engineer [Assistant] (A2 to B5)
- George Butler
- Executive-Producer
- Jim Walker
- Flute [C Flute], Flute [Alto], Piccolo Flute (A2 to B5)
- 岩浪洋三
- Liner Notes
- David Rubinson
- Management
- Bernie Grundman
- Mastered By
- Billy Dee Williams
- Painting [Pastel Cover Portrait]
- Lenny Castro
- Percussion (A1)
- Michiko Hill
- Piano [Acoustic] (A2 to B5)
- Yaron Gershovsky
- Piano [Acoustic] (A2 to B5)
- Joseph Vitarelli
- Producer (A1), Synthesizer [Synclavier], Keyboards (A1), Written-By (A1)
- Wayne Shorter
- Producer, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Written-By
- Michael Hoenig
- Programmed By [Synclavier] (A1)
- Rick Hart
- Recorded By, Mixed By
- Dee Dee Bellson
- Vocals
- Diana Acuna
- Vocals
- Edgy Lee
- Vocals, Written-By (A4)
- Kathy Lucien
- Vocals
- Nani Brunel
- Vocals
- Sanaa Lathan
- Vocals
- Troye Davenport
- Vocals
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