City of Eyes is an album by guitarist Ralph Towner

Ralph Towner

Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...

 recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "City of Eyes shows Ralph Towner as a musical explorer again, a composer and instrumentalist who can persuasively create aural travelogues through time, space, and terrain".

Track listing

All compositions by Ralph Towner

1. "Jamaica Stopover" - 4:11
2. "Cascades' - 6:47
3. "Les Douzilles" - 6:10
4. "City of Eyes" - 4:11
5. "Sipping the Past" 2:31
6. "Far Cry" - 4:23
7. "Janet" - 3:21
8. "Sustained Release" - 5:03
9. "Tundra" - 4:40
10. "Blue Gown" - 5:36

Personnel

• Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner
  Ralph Towner is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He plays the twelve-string guitar, classical guitar, piano, synthesizer, percussion and trumpet.-Biography:...
  
   — twelve-string guitar, classical guitar
  Classical guitar
  The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
  
  , piano
  Piano
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  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
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• Markus Stockhausen
  Markus Stockhausen
  Markus Pirol Stockhausen is a German trumpeter and composer.-Biography:Born in Cologne, he is the son of composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. At age four he appeared as "child at play" in his father's theatre piece Originals. He received his first piano lessons at age six, and at age twelve he began to...
  
   — trumpet
  Trumpet
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  , piccolo trumpet
  Piccolo trumpet
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  , fluegelhorn
• Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless
  Paul McCandless, Jr. is an American jazz woodwind player and composer. He is one of few expert jazz oboists, and also plays English horn, soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet, and pennywhistle, among other instruments.He has performed with the Paul Winter Consort and is...
  
   — oboe
  Oboe
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  , English horn
• Gary Peacock
  Gary Peacock
  Gary Peacock is an American jazz double-bassist.-Biography:After military service in Germany, in the early sixties he worked on the west coast with Barney Kessel, Bud Shank, Paul Bley and Art Pepper, then moved to New York. He worked there with Bley, the Bill Evans trio , and Albert Ayler's trio...
  
   — bass
  Double bass
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• Jerry Granelli — drums
  Drum kit
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  , electronic drums