Ralph Towner Discography & Songs

Album

1973 Diary

1973 Trios / Solos

1 Brujo
2 Winter Light
3 Noctuary
4 1x12
5 A Belt of Asteroids
6 Re: Person I Knew
7 Suite: 3x12 (1)
8 Suite: 3x12 (2)
9 Suite: 3x12 (3)
10 Raven's Wood
11 Reach Me, Friend

1974 Solstice

1 Oceanus
2 Visitation
3 Drifting Petals
4 Nimbus
5 Winter Solstice
6 Piscean Dance
7 Red and Black
8 Sand

1974 Matchbook

1 Drifting Petals
2 Some Other Time
3 Brotherhood
4 Icarus
5 Song for a Friend
6 Matchbook
7 1x6
8 Aurora
9 Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

1976 Sargasso Sea

1 Fable
2 Avenue
3 Sargasso Sea
4 Over and Gone
5 Elbow Room
6 Staircase
7 Romantic Descension
8 Parasol

1977 Solstice, Sound and Shadows

1 Distant Hills
2 Balance Beam
3 Along the Way
4 Arion
5 Song of the Shadows

1978 Batik

1 Waterwheel
2 Shades of Sutton Hoo
3 Trellis
4 Batik
5 Green Room

1979 Old Friends, New Friends

1 New Moon
2 Yesterday and Long Ago
3 Celeste
4 Special Delivery
5 Kupala
6 Beneath an Evening Sky

1980 Départ

1 The Longest Day
2 Autumn
3 Arrivée
4 Touching Points: a. From the Window
5 Touching Points: b. Windfall
6 Touching Points: c. The Rabbit
7 Touching Points: d. Charcoal Traces
8 Départ
9 The Longest Day (reprise)

1982 Blue Sun

1 Blue Sun
2 The Prince and the Sage
3 C. T. Kangaroo
4 Mevlana Etude
5 Wedding of the Streams
6 Shadow Fountain
7 Rumours of Rain

1982 Five Years Later

1 Late Night Passenger
2 Isla
3 Half Past Two
4 Microtheme
5 Caminata
6 The Juggler's Etude
7 Bumabia
8 Child's Play

1986 Slide Show

1 Maelstrom
2 Vessel
3 Around the Bend
4 Blue in Green
5 Beneath an Evening Sky
6 The Donkey Jamboree
7 Continental Breakfast
8 Charlotte's Tangle
9 Innocenti

1989 City of Eyes

1 Jamaica Stopover
2 Cascades
3 Les Douzilles
4 City of Eyes
5 Sipping the past
6 Far Cry
7 Janet
8 Sustained Release
9 Tundra
10 Blue Gown

1992 Open Letter

1 The Sigh
2 Wishful Thinking
3 Adrift
4 Infection
5 Alar
6 Short 'n Stout
7 Waltz for Debby
8 I Fall in Love Too Easily
9 Magic Pouch
10 Magnolia Island
11 Nightfall

1993 If You Look Far Enough

1 If You Look
2 Svev
3 For All We Know
4 Backé
5 The Voice
6 The Woman
7 The Place
8 The Drink
9 Main Man
10 A Song I Used to Play
11 Far Enough
12 Jonah

1994 Oracle

1 Gaya
2 Flutter Step
3 Empty Carousel
4 Hat and Cane
5 Inside Inside
6 St. Helens
7 Oracle
8 Burly Hello
9 Tramonto

1995 Lost and Found

1 Harbinger
2 Trill Ride
3 Elan Vital
4 Summer's End
5 Col Legno
6 Soft Landing
7 Flying Cows
8 Mon Enfant
9 A Breath Away
10 Scrimshaw
11 Midnight Blue....Red Shift
12 Moonless
13 Sco Cone
14 Tattler
15 Taxi's Waiting

1997 Ana

1 The Reluctant Bride
2 Tale of Saverio
3 Joyful Departure
4 Green and Golden
5 I Knew It Was You
6 Les Douzilles
7 Veldt
8 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Between the Clouds
9 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Child on the Porch
10 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Carib Crib (1)
11 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Slavic Mood
12 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Carib Crib (2)
13 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Toru
14 Seven Pieces for Twelve Strings: Sage Brush Rider

1997 If Summer Had Its Ghosts

1 If Summer Had Its Ghosts
2 Never the Same Way Once
3 Forgiveness
4 Somersaults
5 Thistledown
6 The Battle of Vilcabamba
7 Amethyst (For Carmen)
8 Splendour Among Shadows
9 Some Other Time
10 Silent Pool
11 Now Is the Next Time

1998 A Closer View

1 Opalesque
2 Viewpoint
3 Mingusiana
4 Creeper
5 Infrared
6 From Branch to Branch
7 Postcard to Salta
8 Toledo
9 Amber Captive
10 Moor
11 Beppo
12 A Closer View

2000 Verso

1 Renewal
2 Scugnizzeide
3 Afterthought
4 Nova luce
5 Al Tramonto
6 Verso
7 Chiara
8 I Knew It Was You
9 L'ombra e la grazia
10 Redial

2001 Anthem

1 Solitary Woman
2 Anthem
3 Haunted
4 The Lutemaker
5 Simone
6 Gloria’s Step
7 Four Comets, Part I
8 Four Comets, Part II
9 Four Comets, Part III
10 Four Comets, Part IV
11 Raffish
12 Very Late
13 The Prowler
14 Three Comments, Part I
15 Three Comments, Part II
16 Three Comments, Part III
17 Goodbye, Pork-Pie Hat

2006 Time Line

1 The Pendant
2 Oleander Etude
3 Always by Your Side
4 The Hollows
5 Anniversary Song
6 If
7 Five Glimpses I
8 Five Glimpses II
9 Five Glimpses III
10 Five Glimpses IV
11 Five Glimpses V
12 The Lizards of Eraclea
13 Turning of the Leaves
14 Come Rain or Come Shine
15 Freeze Frame
16 My Man’s Gone Now

2008 Chiaroscuro

1 Wistful Thinking
2 Punta Giara
3 Chiaroscuro
4 Sacred Place
5 Blue In Green
6 Doubled Up
7 Zephyr
8 Sacred Place (reprise)
9 Two Miniatures
10 Postlude

2013 Travel Guide

1 The Henrysons
2 Father Time
3 Windsong
4 Duende
5 Amarone Trio
6 Travel Guide
7 Die blaue Stunde
8 Nico und Mithra
9 Tarry
10 Museum of Light

2017 My Foolish Heart

1 Pilgrim
2 I’ll Sing to You
3 Saunter
4 My Foolish Heart
5 Dolomiti Dance
6 Clarion Call
7 Two Poets
8 Shard
9 Ubi Sunt
10 Biding Time
11 Blue as in Bley
12 Rewind

-- Nomad's Notebook

1 Loyalsock
2 Kasbah Tadla
3 Mount Rundle
4 Raffish
5 Lothlorien
6 I'll Remember August
7 Lizbet
8 Songs of Struggle and Songs of Love
9 Simone