Evan Parker
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jazzy_daveA friend of mine and i was talking just a few mins ago over a pint about the UK jazz improv scene. Wart said that my fave improv saxophonist - Evan Parker - lives in Faversham. i have seen the geezer live quite a few times in Brighton.
Some of his way out stuff -
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - The Eleventh Hour, Pt. 2
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence.
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton - Lytton Perdu
Evan Parker: Saxophones | Paul Lytton: Percussion + Electronics | Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones): An Improvised Urban Psychodrama In Eight Parts | Incus + Psi | 1972 + 2002
Enjoy.
Some of his way out stuff -
Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble - The Eleventh Hour, Pt. 2
The Eleventh Hour is the fourth offering by Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble on ECM. The ensemble here numbers 11 members, six of whom are electronic sound sculptors and sound processors, with the remainder -- including Philipp Wachsmann and Paul Lytton -- are free jazz and new music improvisers. This piece, in five parts, was commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Center in Glasgow, where the album was recorded. Free improv of an intense variety kicks off the first section with live acoustic instrumentation in the foreground and sonics are slipped forward and backward through the dialogue. As the piece develops, silence, ambience, and repetition play more and more of a role, as new modes and routes are proposed and integrated through the sections as each "real" instrument is allowed its own free play, and then dialogue, in duet and trio engagements with others. The final five minutes of this work is one of the most ominous and tense dronescapes, punctuated by high-pitched industrial sounds and offering a mood of pure foreboding, and even dread. It's dynamic, dramatic, and utterly unsettling, leaving the listener spellbound once the recording has drifted into silence.
Evan Parker & Paul Lytton - Lytton Perdu
Evan Parker: Saxophones | Paul Lytton: Percussion + Electronics | Collective Calls (Urban) (Two Microphones): An Improvised Urban Psychodrama In Eight Parts | Incus + Psi | 1972 + 2002
Enjoy.
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