Pepe Maina 3, Birds of Passage from 2006

 

Here's a really remarkable one, that just blew me away. Definitely the best one since his seventies work which is why I put this one separately.  I would go so far as to say it's almost better than the first 2 because of its intensity and cohesion and the quality of the original compositions. Quite impressive-- considering this is some 30 years after the style of music was in fashion, culturally.

Information here, note the lovely album cover, an outlier for the artwork too considering the times of release.

Coloured Noises, posted on youtube here, starts the album off with the usual themes and sounds of composed orchestral type passages on acoustic instruments plus keyboards, eg synthesizers with overlying flute melodies, extremely professionally played and also recorded in a crystal clear fashion.

Birds Against the Sky, posted here, features all the hallmarks of his style particularly the gentleness and flowing sound that never become boring through the different musical variations he runs through.

Even the lovely old mellotron makes an appearance, for ex. on the track called Rainbow.

Too bad about internet archive, presumably in trouble for copyright stuff.

It was too good to last long, I guess.