1983, JAPO / ECM JAPO 60040

Sleeve and Record in EXCELLENT condition
Original Release:label mark "JAPO" in front (instead of ECM)

Side 1:
1  For Abai and Togshan 

Side 2:
2 Dancing With the Morning
3 Listen to the Rain 
4 White Paint on Silver Wood  

Stephan Micus: Dilruba, Guitar, Suling, Tamboura, Shakuhachi

Review by Ron Wynn
It's hard to tell whether to consider Micus a jazz, fusion, or New Age performer and composer. He's a versatile musician who has used Bavarian, Japanese, Afghan, Irish, Spanish, North African, Indian, and Southeastern Asian instruments on different projects. There's some stunning music on this session, and it's certainly worth hearing; it's also probably not jazz.
 
Biography by Linda Kohanov
This respected German composer and multi-instrumentalist made his first journey to the Orient at the age of 16. He has since traveled around the world. He spent extensive periods of time studying ancient musical techniques in India and Japan and collected a number of ethnic instruments previously unknown in the West. His recordings for the ECM label are essentially solo efforts in which the illusion of an ensemble is created by the composer's extensive overdubs. Micus's intention is not to play these instruments according to tradition, but to combine modes of expression from around the world in exciting new ways. Though he sometimes creates sounds you'd swear were the result of electronic keyboards, Micus is an acoustic purist who often develops unconventional performance techniques on ethnic instruments. He released Garden of Mirrors in mid-2000. Desert Poems followed a year later.