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- Rites Of Summer (US Release)
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Spyro Gyra
Released 1988

Claire's Dream
05:38
1,684 plays

Shanghai Gumbo
04:28
1,345 plays

Limelight
04:27
1,268 plays

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- Claire's Dream
- 05:38
- 1,684 plays

- 2
- Daddy's Got A New Girl Now
- 04:02
- 1,193 plays

- 3
- Limelight
- 04:27
- 1,268 plays

- 4
- Shanghai Gumbo
- 04:28
- 1,345 plays

- 5
- Innocent Soul
- 04:52
- 1,150 plays

- 6
- No Man's Land
- 05:37
- 1,173 plays

- 7
- Yosemite
- 05:21
- 1,205 plays

- 8
- The Archer
- 04:59
- 1,190 plays

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- Captain Karma
- 05:40
- 1,196 plays

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album review

1998's Rites of Summer is the album on which Spyro Gyra once and for all abandons every pretense toward being anything other than a slickly commercial instrumental pop outfit with occasional feints toward the smoothest of smooth jazz. As always with Spyro Gyra, the slower and more impressionistic tunes are much more interesting than the upbeat songs. Where "Daddy's Got a New Girl Now" sounds like the backing track to an unreleased Deniece Williams single and "No Man's Land" and "Captain Karma" sound as if they were written as background music for the local forecasts on The Weather Channel, "Claire's Dream," by bandleader and saxophonist Jay Beckenstein, is haunting and memorable, and keyboardist Tom Schuman's "Innocent Soul" is a downright lovely mélange of Brian Eno and Erik Satie at their most lyrical. Fans who admired the more complex and occasionally even edgy sound of Spyro Gyra's earliest albums will be disappointed, but those who liked the rest of their '80s releases will find this comfortingly familiar. ~ Stewart Mason, All Music Guide