Couple in Spirit explained

Couple in Spirit
Type:	Album
Artist:	Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts
Cover:	Couple in Spirit.jpg
Released:	1987
Genre:	Jazz
Length:	37:08
Label:	EG
Producer:	Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts
Chronology:	Keith Tippett
Prev Title:	Mujician III (August Air)
Prev Year:	1987
Next Title:	The Journey
Next Year:	1990

Couple in Spirit is an album by English jazz pianist Keith Tippett and singer Julie Tippetts. It was released on the EG record label in 1987.^{[1] [2]}

Reception

AllMusic awards the album with 4.5 stars and the review by Thom Jurek states: "The pairing of Keith and Julie Tippett on a recording always causes anticipation; the duo's potential for provocative surprise is seemingly endless. But even so, nothing could have prepared listeners for Couple in Spirit. Far from the hallmarks of jazz or the harsher extremes of free improvisation, CIS is in a sense an eight-part suite that begins with intention, moves through incantation and journey, and finally returns as transformation."^[3]

Track listing

Tracks 4 & 8 composed by Keith Tippett; all other tracks by Keith and Julie Tippett.

1. "Daybreak" – 3:13
2. "Morning Psalm" – 2:18
3. "Brimstone Spring Lullaby" – 3:47
4. "Evening Psalm" – 3:32
5. "Marching (We Shall Remember Them)" – 6:04
6. "The Choir and the Sunset Improvisers" – 7:24
7. "The Key at Dusk" – 6:25
8. "Grey Mist With Yellow Waterfall Entwines Evening Turquoise" – 4:25

Personnel

• Keith Tippett – piano, harmonium, harpsichord, voices, bells, bottle
• Julie Tippetts – voices, recorder, zither, bottle, shaker

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2023-05-28. Keith & Julie Tippett – Couple in Spirit: Sound on Stone. Jazzwise.
2. Web site: 2023-05-28. Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts: Couple in Spirit in Cambridge, UK article @ All About Jazz. 4 November 2009. All About Jazz.
3. AllMusic: Couple in Spirit