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For those unaware, Mountain Call is a peak achievement in Miroslav Vitouš’s music, presenting the masterful bassist in varying ensemble configurations that prominently include the renowned French clarinetist Michel Portal and late American drummer Jack DeJohnette, among others.

Persuasively bringing together several tendencies and streams in Vitouš’s work, the album bears testimony to his multiple skills as dynamic improviser, jazz composer, arranger and creative sampling pioneer. The prodigiously gifted Czech bassist and founding member of Weather Report first came to ECM in the late 1970s, in a collaborative trio with Terje Rypdal and Jack DeJohnette.

Back then, Miroslav and Jack made for an eruptive, powerful rhythm section, successfully revisited on Vitouš’s Universal Syncopations album (2003) with Jan Garbarek and Chick Corea, and on Mountain Call the combination also has a centering role to play.

1. New Energy
2. Second Touch
3. On The Way
4. Unexpected Solutions
5. Tribal Dance
6. Rehearsal In Theatre
7. Discussion
8. Epilog
9. Delusion
10. Path Begins
11. Nature Opening
12. Fulfillment
13. In You
14. Fun & Games
15. Africa
16. In Me
17. Lullaby
18. Mountain Call

Recorded at multiple sessions over a period of seven years at Vitouš’s Prague studio, and produced by both Vitouš and Manfred Eicher, the trio’s remarkable collaborative spark opens this recording on the _________________ of New Energy, the ___________ of Second Touch and the __________ of On The Way, and they are backed by the __________ of Unexpected Solutions, the _____________ of Tribal Dance, the _________ of Rehearsal In Theatre, with trio of the ____________ of Discussion, the ___________ of Epilog and the _______________ of Delusion along next.

Up next is the _________________ of Path Begins, the _____________ of Nature Opening, the _______________ of Fulfillment and the ___________ of In You, and they are all in turn followed seamlessly by the ________ of Fun & Games, the ________________ of Africa, the ___________ of In Me, the recording rounding out on the ___________ of Lullaby, coming to a close on the ______________ of the title track Mountain Call.

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