Desert Marauders Explained

Desert Marauders
Type:Album
Artist:Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol
Border:yes
Released:1978
Recorded:June 1977
Genre:Jazz
Length:38:35
Label:ECM 1106
Producer:Manfred Eicher
Chronology:Art Lande
Prev Title:The Eccentricities of Earl Dant
Prev Year:1977
Next Title:The Story of Ba-Ku
Next Year:1978

Desert Marauders is an album by Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol in June 1977 and released on ECM the following year. The quartet features trumpeter Mark Isham and rhythm section Bill Douglass and Kurt Wortman.[1]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 3 stars stating "This is solid, contemporary improvisational music, a touch laidback, and makes one wish this ensemble would have carried on. They were special."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Art Lande except as indicated

  1. "Rubisa Patrol" - 15:57
  2. "Livre (Near the Sky)" (Mark Isham) - 3:54
  3. "El pueblo de las vacas tristes" - 5:50
  4. "Perelandra" - 4:29
  5. "Sansara" - 8:25

Personnel

Art Lande and Rubisa Patrol

Notes and References

  1. http://www.ecmrecords.com/Catalogue/ECM/1100/1106.php? ECM discography
  2. Nastos, M. G. Allmusic Review accessed September 9, 2011