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1987 studio album by Mark Isham & Art Lande

We Begin

Studio album by Mark Isham & Art Lande

Released

1987

Recorded

January 1987

Studio

Rainbow Studio
Oslo, Norway

New-age, jazz fusion

Length

41:51

ECM
ECM 1338

Mark Isham chronology

Film Music
(1985)

We Begin
(1987)

Castalia
(1988)

Art Lande chronology

As Time Goes By
(1986)

We Begin
(1987)

Hardball
(1987)

We Begin is a collaborative album by American jazz trumpeter Mark Isham and jazz pianist Art Lande recorded in January 1987 and released on ECM later that year.

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic

Track listing

All tracks are written by Art Lande, except as noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Melancholy of Departure"	Isham	6:32
2.	"Ceremony in Starlight"	Isham	7:34
3.	"We Begin"		6:19
4.	"Lord Ananea"		2:42
5.	"Surface and Symbol"	Isham Lande	10:45
6.	"Sweet Circle"		4:09
7.	"Fanfare"		3:26

Notes

“The Melancholy of Departure” takes its title from a 1916 work by Italian metaphysical painter Giorgio de Chirico.

Personnel

Mark Isham – trumpet, fluegelhorn, piccolo trumpet, synthesizer, percussion
Art Lande – piano, synthesizer, percussion

References

^ Mark Isham - We Begin Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved 2023-12-13

v t e Mark Isham
Studio albums	Vapor Drawings (1983) Film Music (1985) We Begin (with Art Lande, 1987) Castalia (1988) Mark Isham (1990) Bittersweet (with Kate Ceberano, 2009)
Soundtracks/ film scores	Blade (1998) Crash (2005) Freedom Writers (2007) Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

v t e Art Lande
Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Albums	Red Lanta (with Jan Garbarek, 1973) Rubisa Patrol (1976) Desert Marauders (1977) Shift in the Wind (1980) Skylight (with Dave Samuels and Paul McCandless, 1981) We Begin (with Mark Isham, 1987)