Transit (Ira Stein and Russel Walder album)

Transit
Studio album by
Ira Stein & Russel Walder
Released1986
GenreElectronic, Jazz, New age
Length52:02
LabelWindham Hill
ProducerDawn Atkinson, William Ackerman, & Mark Isham (co-producer)[1]
Ira Stein & Russel Walder chronology
Elements
(1982) 		Transit
(1986) 		Under the Eye
(1990)

Transit was the second collaborative album between keyboardist Ira Stein and oboist Russel Walder, released in 1986 by Windham Hill.

Track listing

Transit[2]
No.TitleLength
1."The Underground"6:32
2."Engravings"4:04
3."Marseille"5:37
4."Foreign Correspondence"5:50
5."Transit"4:26
6."Lost Time"7:11
7."Circe"5:09
8."The Calling"4:52
9."Suite for Dominique: Over and Under/Round Robin/All Bounced Up"8:21

Reception

Keyboard described the album as "generally wishful, sometimes impassioned but never anguished" but wanted the album to have "more adventure in the chord progressions."[3] Meanwhile, Billboard praised the album, even comparing “The Underground” to Tangerine Dream.[4]

References

  1. ^ Transit Discogs Page. Discogs.com. Accessed April 20, 2017. The liner notes for the album reference Atkinson and Ackerman as the producers; Isham as the co-producer.
  2. ^ Ira Stein & Russel Walder / Transit / Track Listing. allmusic.com. Accessed December 28, 2017.
  3. ^ "In Review". Keyboard. Vol. 12, no. 7. GPI Publications. July 1986. p. 22. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
  4. ^ "Reviews". Billboard. 98 (11): 100. March 15, 1986. ISSN 0006-2510.