BOOKLET
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Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – After Appleby
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Artist……………: Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell
Album…………….: After Appleby
Genre…………….: free.improvisation
Source……………: NMR
Year……………..: 2000
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Review / Description
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Three veteran British avant-gardists–saxophonist Evan Parker, bassist Barry Guy, and percussionist Paul Lytton, all long-time collaborators–are joined here by one of the most advanced of North American free improvisers, pianist Marilyn Crispell. Their well-matched idiosyncrasies and maturity emerge everywhere on this studio-live two-CD program. In improvisations of this kind, the styles and approaches of players may be or become familiar–Parker’s fondness for warbling, fluttering runs, for example–but their deployment remains startling and requires and rewards focused listening. Parker’s playing, ever evolving, makes one think, say, of the firing and rippling of ganglions–mingling aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional energies. A particular delight is “Where Heart Revive,” a 25-minute piece in which Parker delivers a staggering flood of unimaginable sound on tenor saxophone, while Crispell, enormously skilled, rumbles in support. Guy and Lytton are ever alert, the latter flickering over his cymbals and drums with an admirable sense of when to interject silence. The results are thoroughly compelling. –Peter Monaghan
Product Description
2-CD set was recorded immediately after the jazz festival in Appleby in July 1999 where the improvisational musicians performed both as a quartet & in separate combinations, with the 1st disc recorded in the studio, the 2nd live at Vortex
This double-CD is a superb example of an incomparable musical dimension courtesy of four of the most virtuosic, forward-looking, creative and intense improvisers/composers alive: Evan Parker (soprano and alto saxophones), Marilyn Crispell (piano), Barry Guy (bass), Paul Lytton (percussion).
I can’t think of words that would do this music justice, which is very frustrating given its tragic lack of exposure and the lack of reviews of it (with the exception of the excellent review by autonomeous). The least I could do to increase its potential for greater exposure is to quote some passages from the superb liner notes by Steve Kulak, which are as fitting as I can imagine:
“Evan Parker is one of the few players who can transport you inside their mind completely. His dazzling technique rides hard on the back of an elaborate sense of invention. He has changed the face of saxophone technique and saxophone music. His approach to music is intensely physical yet intellectually detailed, constantly challenging at every level. …
…It is impossible not to be overwhelmed by the sheer force of what is going on here. You would need to have ears of steel and a heart of stone not to appreciate this extended flight into outer space. …
After Appleby is social engagement by four minds of equal stature sharing an equal commitment in an unequal world. They reinvent their instruments, from primal bursts to a thrilling harnessing of sound converted into a viable music so exciting and different that it virtually defies categorization.
… After Appleby, like Parker’s 50th Birthday Concert, … is music of such impressive focus and fearsome weight, that there is never any doubt as to the significance of the musical content. …
Parker is in great company. Guy and Lytton match him in every respect. The bonus is Crispell … If anyone wanted an introduction to the most engaging, exploratory piano mind at work today, then the Crispell discography on Leo Records will satisfy ten times over. Here is a disciplined mastery reflected through a prism of songs impregnated with all manner of subliminal nuances. …
Welcome to Evan Parker’s controlled fury. Welcome to life heard as music, an intimate source of sound, discipline and devotion swept along by a restless quest for the new to liquidate the old. …
Climb over the wall. Project yourself into the music, in a situation you are obliged to be present in. This is music of conversation, making audible a world that already exists. It is not commodity music made to a market demographic. Listening to Parker, Guy, Lytton and Crispell you regain consciousness and can feel your bones again. …”
Disc 1: Leo Records LR 283 recorded at Gateway studio, 28 June, 1999.
Evan Parker – reeds
Marilyn Crispell – piano
Barry Guy – bass
Paul Lytton – drums
Disc 2: Leo Records LR 284 recorded live at Vortex, 29 June, 1999.
Evan Parker – reeds
Marilyn Crispell – piano
Barry Guy – bass
Paul Lytton – drums
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Tracklisting
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1. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Warp [03:42]
2. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Blue Star [20:09]
3. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Wax [03:01]
4. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Falcon’s Wing [02:58]
5. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Wane [03:14]
6. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Weft [02:36]
7. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Where Heart Revive[25:18]
8. Parker, Guy, Lytton & Marilyn Crispell – Tchefit [03:05]
Playing Time………: 01:04:06
Total Size………..: 117.41 MB
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