We Begin

Infobox Album
Name = We Begin
Type = Album
Longtype =
Artist = Mark Isham and Art Lande


Released = 1987
Recorded = January, 1987 at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway
Genre = New Age
Length = 41:51
Label = ECM
Producer = Manfred Eischer
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:zqx8b5t4bsqh link]
*Piero Scaruffi Rating|1|5 [http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/isham.html link]
Chronology = Mark Isham
Last album = "Film Music" (1985)
This album = "We Begin" (1987)
Next album = "Castalia" (1988)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Art Lande
Type = Album
Last album = "Hardball" (1987)
This album = "We Begin" (1987)
Next album = "World Without Cars" (1999)

"We Begin" (1987) is a collaborative album by the American jazz musicians Mark Isham and Art Lande. It is a highly experimental album featuring a wide range of compositional styles.

The first track on the album is a piece titled “The Melancholy of Departure”. It consists of a soft and mournful trumpet melody set against a harsh and almost mechanical rhythm. “The Melancholy of Departure” takes its title from a 1916 work by the Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.

The two most experimental tracks on the album are “Ceremony in Starlight” and “Surface and Symbol”. “Ceremony in Starlight” is an eerie avant-garde composition with muted trumpet, piano and synthesized bells. “Surface and Symbol” is a complex arrangement of looped trumpet, piano and percussion with synthesizer accompaniments.

Track listing

#”The Melancholy of Departure” (Isham) - 6:32
#”Ceremony in Starlight” (Isham) - 7:34
#”We Begin” (Lande) - 6:19
#”Lord Ananea” (Lande) - 2:42
#”Surface and Symbol” - (Isham/Lande) - 10:45
#”Sweet Circle” (Lande) - 4:09
#”Fanfare” (Lande) - 3:26

Personnel

*Mark Isham - trumpet, fluegelhorn, piccolo trumpet, synthesizer, percussion
*Art Lande - piano, synthesizer, percussion