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Evan Parker: House Full of Floors and SET
by Gordon Marshall
House Full of FloorsTzadik2009 SETPsi2009 Not to be missed in Evan Parker's colossal recorded output is the great deal of fun at play in it. House Full of Floors is a case in point. Credited to the “Cylinder Trio," the group, along with Aleks Kolkowski, who chanced upon them with the object during sessions, have fun with a ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: set: For Lynn Margulis
by Raul d'Gama Rose
Lynn Margulis' Serial Endosymbiosis Theory, which began making its rounds in the scientific community in 1966 as The Origin of Mitosing Eukaryotic Cells and graduated into Symbiosis in Cell Evolution, published in 1981 pushed outward forever in dramatic manner the boundaries relating the evolution of micro organisms. Margulis' quest for the absolutely honest and exciting developmental evolution in the nucleus of “the Noble Kernel" continues to shake up the foundations of biology and revolutionize evolutionary thought. Looking ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker: House Full Of Floors
by Mark Corroto
For three stalwarts of the British improvising scene, saxophonist Evan Parker, guitarist John Russell, and bassist John Edwards, getting together for an improvised recording was as natural as three old friends meeting for a round of golf, or possibly a hike in the countryside.
Their approach to music making and improvisation is openly conversant and comfortably natural and their lack of pretension is an admirable characteristic of this recording. Sonically rich, the session was recorded at St. Peter's ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker Residency with McPhee, Shipp, Zorn, Courvoisier, et al. at The Stone, NYC
by Gordon Marshall
Evan Parker Residency The Stone East Village, Manhattan New York, New York October 1-16, 2009
Rivaled only, in recent memory, by Cecil Taylor's 1988 “Kongresshalle" collaborations in Berlin,* Evan Parker's residency at The Stone in East Village, Manhattan was, like those, a string of assorted and inventive pairings. In this case the participants were largely fixtures of the “downtown scene," the term given to a loosely associated scattering of Manhattan jazz, and ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble: The Moment's Energy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Tra i progetti di Evan Parker, l'Electro-Acoustic Ensemble riveste un ruolo di crescente centralità come “luogo" di sperimentazione, non solo perché l'organico si va progressivamente allargando - quattordici sono i musicisti coinvolti in questo nuovo disco registrato in occasione del Festival di Huddersfield del novembre 2007 - ma anche per il continuo ridefinirsi del rapporto tra materiali acustici e elettronici. Con una simile tavolozza espressiva a disposizione [oltre al soprano di Parker troviamo nella sezione fiati Peter Evans alla tromba, ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker At The Stone
by Martin Longley
Evan Parker/Wu Fei/Joe McPheeThe StoneOctober 7, 2009 John Zorn's intimate venue, The Stone, bases its calendar around selections made by invited curators, but few of them elect to actually perform on all dates of their given stint. The English saxophonist Evan Parker chose to appear at every gig of his two week residency, mostly in a duo setting, but occasionally expanding into a trio format. Audiences were at full capacity for the duration, ...
Continue ReadingEvan Parker - Marteau Rouge: Live
by AAJ Italy Staff
Loro sono i Marteau Rouge [martello rosso], trio franco-giapponese dedito a una forma elettro-rockettara di free piuttosto delirante, con venature ambient e qualche spruzzo di noise [di là delle Alpi la chiamano “musique actuelle"]; lui è Evan Parker, e non ha certo bisogno di presentazioni. L'occasione di esibirsi insieme capita nel gennaio del 2008, sul palco del Sunset di Parigi, storico locale che si affaccia sulla rue des Lombards. Il concerto viene registrato, fortunatamente, e a pubblicarlo ci pensa oggi ...
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