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Evan Parker & Matthew Wright: Trance Map
by John Eyles
Trance Map is part of an ongoing body of work on Psi that includes past releases by Joel Ryan and DJ Sniff, which each used Evan Parker's music as source material to be manipulated to create new works. Whereas Parker was not an active participant in those recordings, for this album he has worked collaboratively with Matthew Wright to create Trance Map, to the extent that each is credited with “co-composition." Wright is a senior lecturer at Canterbury ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker - Barry Guy - Paul Lytton + Peter Evans: Scenes in the House of Music
by AAJ Italy Staff
Con buona pace di Zygmunt Bauman, le forme umane più vitali hanno sviluppato il carattere della liquidità non solo in anticipo rispetto al radicale processo di discioglimento in cui sta affondando la società tardomoderna, ma anche in maniera sana e creativa, sfruttando le piene potenzialità della liquefazione anziché subirne quegli effetti perversi che conducono ad una nuova forma di solidità, differente da quella pre- ed eminentemente moderna per il semplice fatto di essere astratta e irrelata anziché concertata. Parker, Guy ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Barry Guy / Paul Lytton / Peter Evans: Scenes In The House Of Music
by Mark Corroto
Saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy and drummer Paul Lytton have playing together in one form or another since 1972. Their longtime association has created improvised magic, and their appearances are legendary. In 2009, the trio shared the stage with trumpet phenom Peter Evans at Casa da Música, and this impressive recording is the result.The Parker/Guy/Lytton trio was first documented on Tracks (Incus, 1983). Since then, they have released multiple discs, the last being Nightwork (Marge, 2010). They ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: Whitstable Solo
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The music on Whitstable Solo flows like a force of nature. It reaches gale force at times, and finds saxophonist Evan Parker traversing myriad topographies with deft fingering and counterpoint so magical, despite the music's inevitable flow towards a conclusion. Parker also uses an extraordinary palette of colors that turn so vivid at times that the emotion of the music may turn on a dime, and yet he retains a tone that is controlled, only becoming mellow if the saxophonist ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker / Urs Leimgruber: Twine
by Mark Corroto
Twine, from saxophonists Evan Parker and Urs Leimgruber, is perhaps named for two strands twisted together to make a much stronger thread. The subtitle, however, might just be two saxophonists separated at birth.Most people familiar with the legendary Parker know his unique sound and reign as the sovereign of freely improvised tenor and soprano saxophone. He has worked in just about every combination from thrilling solo performance to his large Electro-Acoustic Ensembles.Swiss-born Leimgruber is less well-known; ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: Whitstable Solo
by John Eyles
Whitstable Solo is the first Evan Parker solo soprano saxophone recording since Lines Burnt in Light inaugurated his Psi label back in late 2001. Since then, the label has steadily rereleased Parker's earlier solo soprano albums, with the notable exception of Monoceros (Incus, 1978; Chronoscope, 1999).
Culled largely from a July, 2008 performance at the Whitstable Biennale event with artist Polly Read and filmmaker Neil Henderson--seven tracks taken from the concert and one from before the audience arrived--Whitstable Solo was ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker/Paul Dunmall Quartet at the Vortex, London
by John Sharpe
Evan Parker/Paul Dunmall/Paul Rogers/Tony Levin The Vortex London February 25, 2010
Any opportunity to catch the UK's top tenors Evan Parker and Paul Dunmall in tandem is enough to set the pulse racing, but factor in a rare sally across the Channel by French-based bassist extraordinaire Paul Rogers and you have the makings of an event. With north London's packed Vortex doing a passable imitation of a sardine can, the assembled punters obviously ...
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