The Singles Collection (Terje Rypdal album)
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The Singles Collection is an album by guitarist 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...

 recorded in 1988 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael P. Dawson awarded the album 4 stars stating "The title is a joke: this is actually the third album by the Chasers".

Track listing

All compositions by Terje Rypdal except as indicated
  1. "There Is a Hot Lady in My Bedroom and I Need a Drink" - 4:27
  2. "Sprøtt" - 4:37
  3. "Mystery Man" - 4:42
  4. "The Last Hero" (Allan Dangerfield) - 2:37
  5. "Strange Behaviour" (Dangerfield) - 3:01
  6. "U.'N.I." - 5:36
  7. "Coyote" (Dangerfield) - 2:53
  8. "Somehow, Somewhere" - 3:02
  9. "Steady" - 4:09
  10. "Crooner Song" - 2:51
    • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in August 1988

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...

     — 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...

  • Allan Dangerfield — keyboards, synclavier
    Synclavier
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  • Bjørn Kjellemyr — acoustic bass
    Double bass
    The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...

    , electric bass
    Electric Bass
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  • Audun Kleive
    Audun Kleive
    Audun Kleive is a Norwegian drummer and percussionist.Audun Kleive grew up in Skien, the son of organist Kristoffer Kleive and brother of organist and composer Iver Kleive. He began to play drums in a rock and dance band, and then went to Oslo, where he studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music...

     — drums
    Drum kit
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