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Evan Parker: Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf
by Glenn Astarita
This is another bright spot in acclaimed British saxophonist Evan Parker's extensive career. Along with Matthew Wright's turntable and live sampling activities, Trance Map emanates from the duo's meeting in 2008, for a project that includes field recordings, samples and other EFX-based mediums merged into improvisational creations. It's an electro-organic infusion, complete with the sounds of nature and Parker's circular, whirling and cyclical sax phrasings—a process and technique that he patented and developed into a signature stylization many years ago. ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Paul G. Smyth: Calenture and Light Leaks
by Don Phipps
The live collaboration of the remarkable English tenor saxophonist Evan Parker and Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth on their album Calenture and Light Leaks is like listening to the piano impressions of Debussy while exploring a gallery of Picassos--pure bliss in action. There is an airy quality to the abstractions here, like playful sunbeams streaming through a window's light. Parker's playing flows--whether blowing cool legatos or stuttering rapidly on snappy runs across the saxophone's registers. His playing feels ...
Continue ReadingBorghi Swing 2019 - Marano Lagunare
by Neri Pollastri
Borghi Swing 2019 Marano Lagunare Varie Piazze 28-30.6.2019 Seconda edizione di Borghi Swing a Marano Lagunare, piccolo e suggestivo paese del Friuli Venezia Giulia, di origini romane e a lungo territorio della Repubblica di Venezia, come attestano sia l'architettura, sia il curioso fatto che vi si parli veneto. Il festival è stato organizzato, come la precedente edizione, da Udin&Jazz, ma quest'anno -avendo il festival-padre abbandonato il capoluogo friulano per spostarsi a Grado, città ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf
by Mark Corroto
Excise the notion of virtual reality and AI as the force behind the music heard on Crepuscule In Nickelsdorf by Evan Parker and Matthew Wright's Trance Map+. Undoubtedly you might be tempted to have this thought by surveying the instrumentation, which is chock-full of sampling and electronics. Let's reserve those thoughts for a listen to this live recording from July, 2017 in the city of Nickelsdorf, Austria. Parker and Wright collaborated on the original Trance Map (psi, 2011) ...
Continue ReadingProvenance, Mal de mer, Duration: Evan Parker and Peter Evans at Solilóquios in Porto
by Arian Bagheri Pour Fallah
Provenance Evan Parker needs little introduction. To the listener and to the critic, clearly, but above all to the formation of musical matter. The rudiments of his making are well obscured twenty seconds in after he enkindles the first note. He plays the saxophone durably--static, in deathlike stillness. It is easy, in fact, to mistake his enterprise with that of the snake charmer. After all, he speaks of “the great masters" when questioned about the more rigorous, disciplined composers of ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker and Paul G. Smyth on Weekertoft
by John Eyles
In 2016, English guitarist John Russell and Irish pianist Paul G. Smyth set up the independent Weekertoft label to release music they had been involved in, including recordings made at Russell's longstanding monthly Mopomoso concert series or annual Fete Quaqua festival. As the label reached its third anniversary, its catalogue was dominated by two large sets--the four-CD Making Rooms recorded on a seven-date Mopomoso tour of England in August 2013, and the six-and-a-quarter-hour, nineteen act, digital release Channel recorded at ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton: Music For David Mossman
by John Sharpe
Over 35 years and counting. It's fair to say that the British trio of saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton constitutes one of the longer-lived units in the free improvised realm, a domain often distinguished by its tendency towards ad hoc groupings. So, with a discography over two score in size, you can be sure that when a new release arrives it documents something worth hearing. And that is indeed the case with ...
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