Description
Spyro Gyra – Rites Of Summer – Vinyl Record
Rites of Summer is an album by Spyro Gyra, a contemporary jazz fusion band. The album was released in 1988 and showcases Spyro Gyra’s signature blend of jazz, fusion, and smooth elements.
Spyro Gyra, known for their instrumental proficiency and melodic compositions, has been influential in the contemporary jazz genre. Rites of Summer is recognized for its smooth and accessible jazz sound, incorporating elements of Latin, pop, and fusion.
From a musical standpoint, the album represents Spyro Gyra’s contribution to the contemporary jazz landscape during the late 1980s. Fans of smooth jazz and fusion often appreciate the band’s ability to create engaging and sophisticated instrumental music.
1998’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.
Brand new, never played and still sealed in the factory plastic seal
MCA Records 1988
Track Listing
Claire’s Dream
Daddy’s Got A New Girl Now
Limelight
Shanghai Gumbo
Innocent Soul
No Man’s Land
Yosemite
The Archer
Captain Karma
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