Rites (album)

All compositions by Jan Garbarek except as indicated

Disc one

1. "Rites" – 8:29
2. "Where the Rivers Meet" – 7:02
3. "Vast Plain, Clouds" – 5:55
4. "So Mild the Wind, So Meek the Water" – 6:11
5. "Song, Tread Lightly" – 7:45
6. "It's OK to Listen to the Gray Voice" – 6:45
7. "Her Wild Ways" – 6:46

Disc two

1. "It's High Time" – 3:36
2. "One Ying for Every Yang" – 6:36
3. "Pan" – 6:13
4. "We Are the Stars" – 5:03
5. "The Moon over Mtatsminda" (Jansug Kakhidze) – 4:02
6. "Malinye" (Don Cherry) – 6:22
7. "The White Clown" – 3:47
8. "Evenly They Danced" – 5:18
9. "Last Rite" – 8:25

• Jan Garbarek – soprano and tenor saxophones, synthesizers, sampler, percussion
• Rainer Brüninghaus – piano (Disc One tracks 4, 6 & 7), keyboards (Disc One tracks 3 & 6, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7)
• Eberhard Weber – bass (Disc One tracks 3, 4, 6, & 7, Disc Two tracks 2 & 7)
• Marilyn Mazur – drums (Disc One tracks 3, 4, 6 & 7, Disc Two tracks 2, 6 & 7), percussion (Disc One tracks 2 & 5)
• Bugge Wesseltoft – synthesizer (tracks 1-1, 2-1, 2-8 & 2-9), accordion (track 2-6)
• Jansug Kakhidze – conductor (track 2-5)
  • Tbilisi Symphony Orchestra
• Torstein Grythe – conductor (track 2-4)
  • Sølvguttene Choir

• Manfred Eicher – producer
• Jan Erik Kongshaug – engineer (except track 2-5)
• Mikhail Kilosanidze – recording (track 2-5)
• Sascha Kleis – cover design
• Giya Chkhatarashvili, Gérald Minkoff, Jim Bengston, Muriel Olesen, Silvia Lelli – photography
• Jan Garbarek – liner notes