Label:ECM Records – ECM 1160 (vinyl to flac)
A1 Some Echoes 5:35
A2 "She Was Young..." (From "The Finger") 3:32
A3 "Nowhere One..." 4:57
A4 Colors 4:22
A5 Home 3:20
B1 In The Fall 4:00
B2 "You Didn't Think..." 2:53
B3 Ice Cream 4:16
B4 Echo 5:22
B5 Midnight 3:42
Bass, Composed By – Steve Swallow
Design – Barbara Wojirsch
Drums – Bob Moses
Engineer [Recording] – David Baker
Lyrics By [Poems] – Robert Creeley
Mixed By – Martin Wieland
Photography By [Cover] – Joel Meyerowitz
Piano – Steve Kuhn
Producer – Manfred Eicher
Saxophone – David Liebman
Synthesizer – Lyle Mays
Voice – Sheila Jordan
Recorded September 1979 at Columbia Recording Studios, New York
"This is a fine (& rare) example of a composer really hearing & bringing out a poet's voice inside the poems. Bob Creeley's concentrated poetry packs an emotional wallop behind an occasionally cool facade. So it is an interesting test to place these words/lyrics with a female singer. Perhaps the most important test is that the poems do function as lyrics, generating an unexpected musical-ness. The band is wonderful. Everyone plays with creative commitment to the material & to Steve Swallow's vision. The proceedings feel a bit dry here & there, the Manfred Eicher Effect. But this is a very good album; one of the few I recommend to poets for both pleasure & the possibilities it suggests."
Bob Rixon
