Couple in Spirit
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{{Infobox album|
| name = Couple in Spirit
| type = Album
| artist = Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts
| cover = Couple in Spirit.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1987
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Jazz
| length = 37:08
| label = EG
| producer = Keith Tippett, Julie Tippetts
| chronology = Keith Tippett
| prev_title = Mujician III (August Air)
| prev_year = 1987
| next_title = The Journey
| next_year = 1990
}}
{{Album ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{rating|4.5|5}}[http://www.allmusic.com/album/r148915 AllMusic Review]
}}
Couple in Spirit is an album by English jazz pianist Keith Tippett and singer Julie Tippetts. It was released on the EG record label in 1987.{{cite web|access-date=2023-05-28|title=Keith & Julie Tippett – Couple in Spirit: Sound on Stone|url=https://www.jazzwise.com/reviews/review?slug=keith-and-julie-tippett-couple-in-spirit-sound-on-stone|website=Jazzwise}}{{cite web|access-date=2023-05-28|title=Keith Tippett and Julie Tippetts: Couple in Spirit in Cambridge, UK article @ All About Jazz|url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/keith-tippett-and-julie-tippetts-couple-in-spirit-in-cambridge-uk-keith-and-julie-tippett-by-john-sharpe/|date=4 November 2009|website=All About Jazz}}
Reception
AllMusic awards the album with 4.5 stars and the review by Thom Jurek states: "The pairing of Keith and Julie Tippett on a recording always causes anticipation; the duo's potential for provocative surprise is seemingly endless. But even so, nothing could have prepared listeners for Couple in Spirit. Far from the hallmarks of jazz or the harsher extremes of free improvisation, CIS is in a sense an eight-part suite that begins with intention, moves through incantation and journey, and finally returns as transformation."[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r148915|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic: Couple in Spirit] accessed 7 June 2010
Track listing
Tracks 4 & 8 composed by Keith Tippett; all other tracks by Keith and Julie Tippett.
- "Daybreak" – 3:13
- "Morning Psalm" – 2:18
- "Brimstone Spring Lullaby" – 3:47
- "Evening Psalm" – 3:32
- "Marching (We Shall Remember Them)" – 6:04
- "The Choir and the Sunset Improvisers" – 7:24
- "The Key at Dusk" – 6:25
- "Grey Mist With Yellow Waterfall Entwines Evening Turquoise" – 4:25
Personnel
- Keith Tippett – piano, harmonium, harpsichord, voices, bells, bottle
- Julie Tippetts – voices, recorder, zither, bottle, shaker