Paul McCandless: Morning Sun

Known for his rich tone with both the legendary Oregon and Paul Winter Consort, oboist Paul McCandless is given a rich retrospective here in various albums with the famed Consort. His tone is rich and palpable, creating a pastoral mood on the elegaic “All the Mornings Bring” or sounding like a relative to Edvard Grieg on” Elves’ Chasm.” Sounds of nature echo with him on “Whooper Dance” and “Eagle” and he even gets a bit churchy with organ on “Fantasia in G.” But McCandless was nothing if not the sound of New Age music, and this album is filled with moods of impressionism throughout. As thoughtful as a rest under the Bodhi Tree.

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