Sky Islands (album)

Sky Islands is the second album by Jazz fusion group Caldera released in 1977 on Capitol Records.[3] The album rose to No. 18 on the Cashbox Top 40 Jazz Albums chart.[4]

Sky Islands
Studio album by Caldera
Released	January 1, 1977 January 1, 1993 (re-release)
Recorded	December 1976 – January 1977
Studio	Hollywood Sound
Genre	Jazz fusion
Length	38:42
Label	Capitol
Producer	Eduardo del Barrio, Larry Dunn, Jorge Strunz and Larkin Arnold
Caldera chronology
Caldera (1976) Sky Islands (1977) Time and Chance (1978)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
All About Jazz	[2]

Covers

The album's title track was covered by Dianne Reeves on her 1987 self titled album and Ramsey Lewis on his 1993 LP Sky Islands.[5]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Sky Island"	Larry Dunn	6:07
2.	"Ancient Source"	Eduardo del Barrio, Ernesto J.Herrera	4:30
3.	"It Used to Be"	Eduardo del Barrio	1:12
4.	"Pegasus"	Eduardo del Barrio, Jorge Strunz	4:56
5.	"Carnavalito"	Eduardo del Barrio	4:51
6.	"Seraphim"	Larry Dunn	4:46
7.	"Indigo Fire"	Jorge Strunz	1:06
8.	"Triste"	George del Barrio	6:50
9.	"Pescador"	Mike Azevedo	1:04

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Personnel

• Jorge Strunz — acoustic guitar, electric guitar, percussion
• Eduardo del Barrio — acoustic piano, electric piano, synthesizers, Moog, Roland, Oberheim Polyphonic
• Steve Tavaglione — flute, alto flute, soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Mike Azeredo — congas, percussion
• Carlos Vega — drums
• Dean Cortez — electric bass
• Hector Andrade — timbales, congas, percussion
• Ernesto Herrera - lyricist.

Guests

• Larry Dunn — synthesizer (solo on track 2)
• Roberto da Silva — percussion
• Dianne Reeves — vocals (tracks 1 and 2)
• Chester Thompson — drums (track 4 only)
• Ralph Humphrey — drums (track 1 only)
• Ralph Rickert — flugelhorn (track 8 only)
• Ray Armando — percussion
• Steve Barrio, Jr. — percussion
• Paul Shure — violin
• Bonnie Douglas — violin
• Harry Bluestone — violin
• Marshall Sosson — violin
• Nathan Ross — violin
• Antol Kaminsky — violin
• Jack Pepper — violin
• Irma Neumann — violin
• Janet Lakatos — viola
• Louis Kievman — viola
• Fredrick Seykora — cello
• Selene Hurford — cello
• Shusei Nagaoka - cover art[3]

References

1. Henderson, Alex. "Caldera: Sky Islands". allmusic.com. Allmusic.
2. Baekgaard, Jakob (May 25, 2019). "Caldera: Caldera / Sky Islands". allaboutjazz.com. All About Jazz.
3. Caldera: Sky Islands. Capitol Records. 1977.
4. "Top 40 Jazz Albums". archive.org. Vol. 39 no. 35. Cashbox. January 28, 1978. p. 43.
5. "Caldera: Sky Islands". secondhandsongs.com.