1989, CMP Records CD42

inlay and cd in excellent condition

1 1 Blue Castle
2 Offering to Anubis
3 Assyrian Rose
4 Drala
5 Amazonas
6 Wren
7 Silver Lining

Glen Velez
with
Layne Redmond, Steve Gorn, John Clark

Review by Backroads Music/Heartbeats
Assyrian Rose continues the style he developed on his earlier CMP release Seven Heaven, with Layne Redmond helping out on various frame drums and Steve Gorn playing bansuri and South American flutes. They are joined by Jon Clark on French horn and Howard Levy on harmonica and piano, adding a greater melodic range to the music. Glen plays his usual variety of frame drums (from Spain and Morocco), Egyptian tambourine and various other percussion instruments. The result is a cross-cultural potpourri of earth-jazz stylings, with Glen's pulsating rhythms leading. The album ends with a solo on one of Glen's tambourines, revealing his mastery of this instrument that plays such a central role in Arabic music.