Transit (Ira Stein and Russel Walder album)

1986 studio album by Ira Stein & Russel Walder

Transit

Studio album by

Ira Stein & Russel Walder

Released| 1986
Genre| Electronic, Jazz, New age
Length| 52:02
Label| Windham Hill
Producer| Dawn Atkinson, William Ackerman, & Mark Isham (co-producer)[1]
Ira Stein & Russel Walder chronology
| Elements
(1982)  | Transit
(1986)  | Under the Eye
(1990)

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Transit was the second collaborative album between keyboardist Ira Stein and oboist Russel Walder, released in 1986 by Windham Hill.

## Track listing

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Transit[2]No.| Title| Length

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1.| "The Underground"| 6:32
2.| "Engravings"| 4:04
3.| "Marseille"| 5:37
4.| "Foreign Correspondence"| 5:50
5.| "Transit"| 4:26
6.| "Lost Time"| 7:11
7.| "Circe"| 5:09
8.| "The Calling"| 4:52
9.| "Suite for Dominique: Over and Under/Round Robin/All Bounced Up"| 8:21

## Reception

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Keyboard described the album as "generally wishful, sometimes impassioned but never anguished" but wanted the album to have "more adventure in the chord progressions."[3] Meanwhile, Billboard praised the album, even comparing “The Underground” to Tangerine Dream.[4]

## References

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1. ^ Transit Discogs Page. Discogs.com. Accessed April 20, 2017. The liner notes for the album reference Atkinson and Ackerman as the producers; Isham as the co-producer.
2. ^ Ira Stein & Russel Walder / Transit / Track Listing. allmusic.com. Accessed December 28, 2017.
3. ^ "In Review". Keyboard. Vol. 12, no. 7\. GPI Publications. July 1986. p. 22. Retrieved December 28, 2017.
4. ^ "Reviews". Billboard. Vol. 98, no. 11\. March 15, 1986. p. 100\. ISSN 0006-2510.

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