Dave Holland
Life Cycle (LP)
LabelECM RecordsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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condition (record/cover): NM / VG+ (tag removal residue on front and light general wear)
A bassist puts down the bass, picks up the cello and records alone for forty-two minutes. Life Cycle is the least-discussed record in Dave Holland's catalogue and one of the most beautiful: mostly bowed, mostly slow, and drawing far more on European romantic writing than on anything in the jazz tradition. The five-part title suite traces exactly what it says it does, from the swaggering low-register attack of "Inception" through to something considerably more resigned. "Sonnet" is almost Bach. Then a funk figure turns up out of nowhere and a fragment of "Straight, No Chaser" slides past, just to remind you where he actually comes from.
Original ECM pressing, digital recording from Tonstudio Bauer. Solo cello, no overdubs, and a record that rewards being left alone with.
Release notes
Digital recording November 1982 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg. Published by Lojac Music-BMI An ECM Production (P) 1983 ECM Records GmbH Made and printed in W. Germany Some copies have the DIGITAL ECM sticker.
| Life Cycle | |||
| A1 | Inception | 4:17 | |
| A2 | Discovery | 4:27 | |
| A3 | Longing | 4:25 | |
| A4 | Search | 3:24 | |
| A5 | Resolution | 4:36 | |
| B1 | Sonnet | 2:22 | |
| B2 | Rune | 4:26 | |
| B3 | Troubadour Tale | 3:06 | |
| B4 | Grapevine | 3:29 | |
| B5 | Morning Song | 2:01 | |
| B6 | Chanson Pour La Nuit | 5:55 | |
- Dave Holland
- Cello, Composed By
- Barbara Wojirsch
- Design
- Martin Wieland
- Engineer
- Signe Mähler
- Photography By [Liner]
- Manfred Eicher
- Producer
