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Evan Parker: The Topography of the Lungs Evan Parker, Antwerp 1988, The Eleventh Hour & Crossing the River
by Andrey Henkin
Evan Parker The Topography of the Lungs Incus-Psi 2006 Fast Colour Antwerp 1988 Loose Torque 2005 Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble The Eleventh Hour ECM 2005 Evan Parker Crossing the River Psi 2006
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Continue ReadingEvan Parker - Derek Bailey - Han Bennink: The Topography of the Lungs
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quando un disco di musica radicale considerato “storico" - per le ragioni più diverse - e rimasto a lungo inaccessibile alla maggior parte degli ascoltatori viene finalmente ristampato, le reazioni sono, come prevedibile, abbastanza disparate: i fans irriducibili non ci penseranno nemmeno per sogno a smettere di santificare l'oggetto dei loro desideri, qualche animo più disincantato non mancherà di evidenziarne i lati negativi, forse molti lo ascolteranno una, due volte e poi via nello scaffale a fare compagnia a fratelli ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: The Topography of the Lungs
by John Eyles
Originally released in 1970--with catalogue number Incus 1, thus launching Evan Parker, Derek Bailey & Tony Oxley's famous label--this is a long awaited and historic reissue. When Parker and Bailey went their separate ways in 1987, Parker took his Incus recordings and other archived material with him. Since the advent of Psi, most of his Incus recordings have been re-released there, with others mooted (Circadian Rhythm?).
However, there was a long-standing agreement between Parker and Bailey--at the latter's request--that this ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker Octet: Crossing the River
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 passages. Energies are spent wisely here!
The music incorporates a multitude of tonal shades to complement moments of wit and happenstance. On ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / September Winds: Short Stories
by Kurt Gottschalk
For British saxophonist Evan Parker, as well as for the horn quintet September Winds, Short Stories is an unexpected record. Parker has excelled in long-form explorations for decades and with September Winds he has focused on site-specific journeys. The band plays in museums, industrial buildings, exposition halls and even a thermal bath in Switzerland. Their first release, Alder Brook (Leo, 2003), was recorded in a water cistern and a chapel. Here, however, they retire to the confines ...
Continue ReadingParker-Schlippenbach-Lytton: America 2003
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel 2003 il trio composto da Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach e Paul Lytton ha compiuto un lungo tour degli USA. 18 concerti in trenta giorni, oltre undici mila miglia percorse, quasi quaranta ore di registrazione dalle quali sono tratti i due CD di questo America 2003. La formazione è dettata in parte dal caso, nel senso che il pianista ha sostituito all’ultimo momento il bassista Barry Guy. Sicchè, come ricorda Parker, la combinazione è ottenuta prendendo qualcosa sia dal ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Eleventh Hour
by Chris May
With over a decade of serious and engaging electro-acoustic experimentation behind him--some of it with the Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, some of it in other contexts--Evan Parker has produced his most ambitious and perfectly realised work in the genre to date in The Eleventh Hour: a masterpiece of sonic adventure and time travel. Not jazz as we previously knew it, Jim, but free collective improvisation with degrees of architectural form and lyric beauty we all too rarely get to enjoy. ...
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