Slipped into sleep and then welcomed Friday with Cycles the second album by cellist David Darling, recorded in 1981 and released on ECM the following year.

Tyran Grillo wrote for ECM Reviews:

"Cellist David Darling has had a long, if sporadic, association with ECM, quietly forging—either under the guise of solo artist or buried in an album’s roster—some of the label’s most lyrical atmospheres. With Cycles, however, Darling magnified his sound-world through the inimitable talents of Jan Garbarek and Collin Walcott in a space both selfless and uniquely his own. Add to that the astonishing pianism of Steve Kuhn and the depth of Arild Andersen on bass, and you get what is, to this listener at least, one of ECM’s finest celestial alignments..."

https://ecmreviews.com/2011/11/08/cycles/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zxDklTW7w&list=OLAK5uy_mjRP-ePBAhwulXvQb-aV4_Ul88VYDkQqM

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Random life skill: listening to Hearts of Space and recognizing the cello technique of David Darling 🎼

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John Clark - "Faces" (1981) #NowPlaying #JohnClark #ECMRecords #DavidDarling #FrenchHorn #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords

https://youtu.be/zkNZh6UwVjI