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Caldera's second album, Sky Islands, found the fusion band working with a vocalist for the first time. Singer Dianne Reeves, who had yet to record a solo album and was little known in 1977, is featured on Eduardo del Barrio's haunting "Ancient Source" with lyrics by Ernesto Herrera, a poet and fiction writer. This song would be revived by Reeves on Blue Note ten years later. Nonetheless, this is an instrumental album first and foremost, and intriguing cuts such as "Pescador," "Pegasus," and the Andean-influenced "Carnavalito" give the soloists enough room to stretch out. With musicians like guitarist Jorge Strunz, keyboardist Eduardo del Barrio, and saxman Steve Tavaglione on board, it would've been regrettable if there hadn't been some room for blowing. While Caldera's first LP was produced by Wayne Henderson, Sky Islands finds Strunz and del Barrio doing the producing with Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn -- who was a logical choice considering that EWF was among Caldera's many influences. At times, they tend to over-produce. But the writing is consistently superb, and all things considered, Sky Islands makes good on the promise of the band's previous album. [1]
[edit] Track listing
- Sky Island (Larry Dunn) – 6:07
- Ancient Source (Eduardo del Barrio, Ernesto J.Herrera) – 4:30
- It Used To Be (Eduardo del Barrio) – 1:12
- Pegasus (Eduardo del Barrio, Jorge Strunz) – 4:56
- Carnavalito Eduardo del Barrio) – 4:51
- Seraphim (Larry Dunn) – 4:46
- Indigo Fire (Jorge Strunz) – 1:06
- Triste (George del Barrio) – 6:50
- Pescador (Mike Azevedo) – 1:04
[edit] Personnel
- Jorge Strunz — acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion
- Eduardo del Barrio — acoustic piano, electric piano, synthesizers, Moog, Roland, Oberheim Polyphonic
- Steve Tavaglione — flute, alto falute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
- Mike Azeredo — congas, percussion
- Carlos Vega — drums
- Dean Cortez — electric bass
- Hector Andrade — timbales, congas, percussion
- Ernesto Herrera - lyricist.
[edit] Guests
- Larry Dunn — synthesizer (solo on track 2)
- Roberto da Silva — percussion
- Dianne Reeves — vocals (tracks 1 and 2)
- Chester Thompson — drums (track 4 only)
- Ralph Humphrey — drums (track 1 only)
- Ralph Rickert — flugelhorn (track 8 only)
- Ray Armando — percussion
- Steve Barrio, Jr. — percussion
- Paul Shure — violin
- Bonnie Douglas — violin
- Harry Bluestone — violin
- Marshall Sosson — violin
- Nathan Ross — violin
- Antol Kaminsky — violin
- Jack Pepper — violin
- Irma Neumann — violin
- Janet Lakatos — viola
- Louis Kievman — viola
- Fredrick Seykora — cello
- Selene Hurford — cello
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