#2: Ian Lynn in Early Snow, 1985

Blurb on the back:

Early Snow is the second of 3 jazz influenced, thematically related suites.  It flows on from Forgotten Summer, the first of the trilogy to which it contains some references, and is an attempt to capture some of the moods of the other seasons.  The introduction glimpses some of the themes used throughout and is followed by Do you see/Seven bridges which is a more general intro to set up the rest of the piece.  The other titles are more self-explanatory, from Autumn through Christmas at the end of side one and from snowy mountains through melting glaciers, down a great river, over a waterfall, and finally to Earth Song and a promise of Spring.

As before my drummer is Bob Jenkins and Martin Ditcham is the percussionist.  They are joined by fellow M.M.C. artist Mo Foster of R.M.S. on bass and the lovely Basia who sings with me on Earth Song.  "Celebration" will follow soon.

This album was recorded on an MCI 24-track analog tape recorder at 30 IPS without noise reduction, and mixed direct to signal 2 track using the Sony PCM F1 system.  It was then digitally remastered to the Sony 1610 system for subsequent editing and mastering.

I think it's clear the closest point of reference might be Patrick Moraz's Story of I, but this is more laidback and quite lacking in the high energy, high velocity material of my comparison.  It's a little bit more laissez-faire or lackadaisical than its predecessor, Forgotten Summer, making me a little hesitant about the third in the series which I just purchased, hoping it makes it through the corona-mail intact, unlike so many other purchases halted by the post.  Which ruined my plans full of new LPs for the isolation/social distancing a bit.

On the other hand the track called River is absolutely golden, I think you'll agree, it sounds like the best library compositions I've heard, with the scintillating synth sounds, the lovely minor passages, the way it keeps changing like a suite through a brief 6-minute period, again reminds a little of the best Fukamachi works: