Andi Chorley<p>Welcomed sleep at the end of the week and greeted the weekend with Journal October the debut album by cellist David Darling, recorded in October 1979 and released on the ECM label</p><p>Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:</p><p>"... His electric cello bays like a resurrected voice, an insight in and of itself into the lucidity of “Slow Return.” This introductory track is also the longest, drawing every jagged line like the echo of a mountainous horizon. From this potent doorway issues a host of transient forms.</p><p>...The closing piece sails like an entire biography gathered into one vessel. Notes ascend into birdcalls, circling a teetering falsetto that reshapes the drone dynamic as one suspended rather than suspending."</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ecmreviews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecmreviews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/davidarling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>davidarling</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/cello" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cello</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X63lx-uJeYs&amp;list=OLAK5uy_kEaB3YFEprEgBLeWYMeMRTJVYlcvzT5GA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=X63lx-uJeY</span><span class="invisible">s&amp;list=OLAK5uy_kEaB3YFEprEgBLeWYMeMRTJVYlcvzT5GA</span></a></p>