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Crossing the River

Label: Psi
Released: 2006
Track listing: Octet I; Quintet; Trio I; Trio 2; Trio 3; Duo; Octet 2; Octet 3.

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Evan Parker Octet: Crossing the River

Read "Crossing the River" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Saxophonist Evan Parker leads this variegated ensemble sojourn into exploratory improvisation, largely within the archetypal framework of Brit-improv. The nine performers feed off one another's ideas, leading to spurious shifts in strategy and combining minimalism, avant chamber motifs, micro-themes and more. Passages containing creaky strings and whimsical flute patterns are interlaced with contrapuntal call and response ...


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