Herbie Hancock - Crossings LP RSD2019 while Alien Observer is mostly

while Alien Observer is mostly made of newer songs

incidental snippets of bird song and furniture creaks

Roberto Cacciapaglia and Terry Riley

For the first time ever

a Demo at Don Fury and one 7" "Defiance" released on Combined Effort Records and appeared on the seminal "NEW BREED" tape comp in 1988

Herbie Hancock - Crossings LP RSD2019 while Alien Observer is mostlyCrossings was the second release by the Herbie Hancock Sextet lineup known as the Mwandishi Band, following 1971s Mwandishi which stretched Hancocks already adventurous writing and expanded the music through post production. This approach would play an even larger role on Crossings, the pianists final album for Warner Bros. For two of Crossings three pieces (Quasar and Water Torture), Hancock took basic instrumental tracks to Patrick Gleesons