Reception

Track listing

All compositions by Terje Rypdal

1. "Darkness Falls" - 3:33
2. "Midnite" - 16:45
3. "Adagio" - 13:16
4. "Better Off Without You" - 7:37
5. "Over Birkerot" - 4:48
6. "Fare Well" - 11:25
7. "Ballade" - 5:55
8. "Rolling Stone" - 23:54 Omitted from CD rerelease
   • Recorded at the Arne Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, Norway in August 1975

Personnel

• Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal
  Terje Rypdal is a Norwegian guitarist and composer. Most of his music has been released on albums of the German record label ECM. Rypdal has collaborated both as a guitarist and as a composer with other ECM artists such as Ketil Bjørnstad and David Darling...
  
   — guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , synthesizer
  Synthesizer
  A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
  
  , soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
  The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
  
  
• Brynjulf Blix
  Brynjulf Blix
  Brynjulf Blix is a noted pianist from Norway. First known from his collaboration with Terje Rypdal, Blix received broader notoriety as a member of the group "Alex", supporting the singer Alex Naumik....
  
   — organ
• Torbjørn Sunde — trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Sveinung Hovensjø — electric bass
  Electric Bass
  Electric bass can mean:*Electric upright bass, the electric version of a double bass*Electric bass guitar*Bass synthesizer*Big Mouth Billy Bass, a battery-powered singing fish...
  
  
• Svein Christensen — drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....