SMILING & WAVING

Anja Garbarek

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Crossover Prog

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Studio Album, released in 2001

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Her Room (2:28)
2. The Gown (3:21)
3. Spin The Context (4:43)
4. Stay Tuned (4:11)
5. You Know (3:38)
6. Big Mouth (3:19)
7. The Diver (4:01)
8. That's All (3:45)
9. And Then (4:18)
10. It Seems We Talk (4:57)
11. I Won't Hurt You (2:33) *
12. Blinking Blocks Of Light (3:41) *

* Not on LP

Total time 44:55

Line-up / Musicians

- Anja Garbarek / vocals, percussion (2,7), arrangements (2,6,10), piano & sound design & programming (12), composer, co-producer

With:
- Robert Wyatt / vocals (7)
- Steven Wilson / guitar (2,5,10,11), percussion (3), piano (10,12), arrangements (10), sound design & programming (12), co-producer
- Mark Hollis / piano & bass & melodica (2), arrangements (2,6), producer (2,7)
- Lawrence Pendrous / piano (1,2,7,8), organ (4), Rhodes (6)
- John Pigneguy / French horn (1)
- Richard Bissill / French horn (1)
- Melinda Maxwell / oboe (2,7)
- Nick Bucknall / clarinet (3)
- Anthony Pike / clarinet (3)
- Robin O'Neill / bassoon (5)
- Theo Travis / saxophone (6), flute (8), bass flute (10)
- Chris Lawrence / bass (1-3,6,7,9)
- Steve Jansen / percussion (1,2), drums (3,4)
- Martin Ditcham / percussion (2,7)
- Richard Barbieri / analogue effects (4)
- J�rgen Knudsen / atmosphere sounds (4)
- The London Session Orchestra / strings (1,4,5,8,9)
- John Bradbury / violin (2,7)
- Ivo van der Werff / viola (2,7)
- Tony Lewis / cello (2,7)
- Tony Hinnigan / cello (2,7)
- Tony Pleeth / cello (3)
- Paul Kegg / cello (3)
- Gavyn Wright / violin (6), strings leader
- Peter Lale / viola (6)
- Helen Tunstall / harp (9)
- Frank Ricotti / vibraphone (10,12)
- Miguel Diaz De Lopez / sound design & programming (12)

Releases information

Artwork: Toorkwaz

CD Virgin ‎- 7243 811453 2 6 (2001, Europe)

LP Tonefloat ‎- tf144 (2015, Netherlands) Misses 2 tracks

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ANJA GARBAREK Smiling & Waving ratings distribution

3.81
(17 ratings)

Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(6%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(59%)
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Review by Slartibartfast
COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam

Anja, the Daughter of jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek, with Steven Wilson and Robert Wyatt, and all together on one album should make for something interesting and certainly enough it does. Steven does production for the album and plays various instruments on various tracks but not the track with Robert Wyatt. Robert only provides vocals for one song, The Diver. Robert later did cover a song he wasn't on for this album, Stay Tuned, and Richard Barbieri (another Porcupine Tree conspirator, Wyatt not counting yet as far as I know) puts in an appearance on one song, Stay Tuned, which was the one that Wyatt covered.

The center star is of course Anja. It's her project, not her first album, and the rest of the musicians do serve as supporting artists for her vision. Lyrically and perhaps musically you get a strong woman's perspective on the difficulties of life. A dark and chilling perspective at times.

This album is a bit like some of Angleo Badalamenti's soundtrack work with David Lynch: dark and mellow and jazzy and dreamy. Anja's lyrics and music are a mix of the disturbing with beauty. No-man comes to mind too, but I like Anja's vocal style much better than Tim Bowness'.

"Emerging through water. That's all we know. On hands and knees towards the shore. That's all we know."

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