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{{Infobox album
| name         = We Begin
| type         = [[Album]]
| artist       = [[Mark Isham]] & [[Art Lande]]
| cover        = We_Begin.jpg|border=yes
| alt          = 
| released     = 1987
| recorded     = January 1987
| venue        = 
| studio       = Rainbow Studio<br>[[Oslo, Norway]]
| genre        = [[New-age music|New-age]], [[jazz fusion]]
| length       = 41:51
| label        = [[ECM Records|ECM]]<br>ECM 1338
| producer     = [[Manfred Eicher]]
| chronology   = [[Mark Isham]]
| prev_title   = [[Film Music (album)|Film Music]]
| prev_year    = 1985
| next_title   = [[Castalia (album)|Castalia]]
| next_year    = 1988
| misc         = {{Extra chronology
 | artist     = [[Art Lande]]
 | type       = Album
 | prev_title = [[As Time Goes By (Malcolm Green and Art Lande album)|As Time Goes By]]
 | prev_year  = 1986
 | title      = We Begin
 | year       = 1987
 | next_title = [[Hardball (album)|Hardball]]
 | next_year  = 1987
}}
}}
'''''We Begin''''' is a collaborative album by American jazz trumpeter [[Mark Isham]] and jazz pianist [[Art Lande]] recorded in January 1987 and released on [[ECM Records|ECM]] later that year.<ref name="AllMusic">{{Citation |title=Mark Isham - We Begin Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/we-begin-mw0000190412 |access-date=2023-12-13 |language=en}}</ref>{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}} <ref name="AllMusic" />
}}

==Track listing==
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Art Lande, except as noted.
| title1 = The Melancholy of Departure
| length1 = 6:32
| writer1 = Isham
| title2 = Ceremony in Starlight
| length2 = 7:34
| writer2 = Isham
| title3 = We Begin
| length3 = 6:19
| title4 = Lord Ananea
| length4 = 2:42
| title5 = Surface and Symbol
| length5 = 10:45
| writer5 = {{hlist|Isham|Lande}}
| title6 = Sweet Circle
| length6 = 4:09
| title7 = Fanfare
| length7 = 3:26
}}

=== Notes ===

* “The Melancholy of Departure” takes its title from a 1916 work by [[Italy|Italian]] [[Metaphysical art|metaphysical painter]] [[Giorgio de Chirico]].

==Personnel==
*[[Mark Isham]] – trumpet, [[fluegelhorn]], [[piccolo trumpet]], synthesizer, percussion
*[[Art Lande]] – piano, synthesizer, percussion

==References==
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[[Category:Mark Isham albums]]
[[Category:Art Lande albums]]
[[Category:1987 collaborative albums]]
[[Category:Albums produced by Manfred Eicher]]
[[Category:ECM Records albums]]