Reception

Track listing

All compositions by Terje Rypdal

1. "Silver Bird is Heading for the Sun" - 14:05
2. "The Hunt" - 5:18
3. "Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away" - 17:37
   • Recorded at the Arne Bendiksen Studio in Oslo, Norway (track 1 & 2) and at at Tonstudio Bauer in Ludwigsburg, West Germany (track 3) in 1974

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...
  
  , electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Sveinung Hovensjø — 6 string bass
  Extended-range bass
  Extended-range bass refers to an electric bass guitar with greater frequency range than the standard 4-string bass guitar. Bass guitars tuned one octave lower than a standard four-string instrument are also considered an extended-range bass...
  
  , 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...
  
   (tracks 1 & 2)
• Pete Knutsen — mellotron
  Mellotron
  The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphonic tape replay keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin Music Master, which was the world's first sample-playback keyboard intended for music...
  
  , electric piano
  Electric piano
  An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...
  
   (tracks 1 & 2)
• Odd Ulleberg — French horn (tracks 1 & 2)
• Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....
  
   — percussion (tracks 1 & 2)
• Südfunk Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mladen Gutesha (track 3)