Rites of Summer

Rites of Summer

Infobox Album
Name = Rites of Summer
Type = studio
Artist = Spyro Gyra


Released = Start date|1988
Recorded =
Genre =
Length =
Label = GRP Records
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album = "Stories Without Words"
(1987)
This album = "Rites of Summer"
(1988)
Next album = "Point of View
(1989)

"Rites Of Summer" is the twelfth album by Spyro Gyra from 1988. The album showed a bunch of cars stopped in the nighttime for a celebration on an island country.

Review

1988's "Rites of Summer" is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints toward the smoothest of smooth jazz. As always with Spyro Gyra, the slower and more impressionistic tunes are much more interesting than the upbeat songs. Where "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" sounds like the backing track to an unreleased Deniece Williams single and "No Man's Land" and "Captain Karma" sound as if they were written as background music for the local forecasts on The Weather Channel, "Claire's Dream," by bandleader and saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, is haunting and memorable, and keyboardist Tom Schuman's "Innocent Soul" is a downright lovely mélange of Brian Eno and Erik Satie at their most lyrical. Fans who admired the more complex and occasionally even edgy sound of Spyro Gyra's earliest albums will be disappointed, but those who liked the rest of their '80s releases will find this comfortingly familiar.

Personnel

*Jay Beckenstein: Saxophones, Wind Driven Synthesizer
*Tom Schuman: Keyboards
*Richies Morales: Drums
*Oscar Cartaya: Bass
*Julio Fernandez: Guitars
*Dave Samuels: Vibraphone, Marimba, Percussion

Track listing

#"Claire's Dream" (Jay Beckenstein) - 5:39
#"Daddy's Got A New Girl Now" (Jay Beckenstein) - 4:02
# "Limelight" (Dave Samuels) - 4:27
# "Shanghai Gumbo" (Julio Fernandez) - 4:28
# "Innocent Soul" (Tom Schuman) - 4:52
# "No Man's Land" (Jeremy Wall) - 5:37
# "Yosemite" (Jeremy Wall) - 5:21
# "The Archer" (Richie Morales) - 4:59
# "Captain Karma" (Tom Schuman) - 5:40


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