Evan Parker - Saxophone Solos '1994

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1	Aerobatics 1	16:20
2	Aerobatics 2	6:30
3	Aerobatics 3	14:25
4	Aerobatics 4	3:48
5	Aerobatics 5 The Light Of The Understanding And The Fire	6:55
6	Aerobatics 6 Equinox, Memorable Equinox	3:51
7	Aerobatics 7 Shadows Of The Evening	1:42
8	Aerobatics 8 The Dark Nurse	5:17
9	Aerobatics 9 Not With The Fire In Me Now	2:21
10	Aerobatics 11 Shadow Of The Opus . . . Magnum	5:56
11	Aerobatics 12 The Vision At Last	0:08
12	Aerobatics 13 And The Aspirations	3:30
13	Aerobatics 14 And The Resolutions	6:54

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Evan Parker - Soprano Saxophone

What can be said about these historic recordings is limited, but thats because,
while its true that music can be and most often is beyond language (at least the
English language) to describe, these solos are for the most part beyond the
reach of even music to describe. Evan Parker has proven time and again his
unwillingness to tread any path traveled before him (notice his typically
European comments about American Eric Dolphy in the liner notes, where he
concedes a point to an interviewer and then has to better it by claiming his own
attempt at superiority -- yeah, its whiny and one hopes hes matured in this
way), and these solos from 1975 should prove that he has cut down the entire
forest of trees that the instruction manuals for soprano saxophone were made
from. These pieces are about sonic texture, tonality and atonality, and why
theyre both the same thing, and they reveal also the mechanical possibilities
for the instrument that werent even considered before he came along -- things
like playing in all three registers of the instrument at the same time. There
are two sets of pieces here, all of them called Aerobatics and then numbered one
through 14. The first four were recorded during a live concert earlier in the
year and the last ten at a studio in Berlin. Given whats on the studio set, it
would appear as if the live gig inspired further exploration and new ideas as a
result, because there is a marked difference in just a few months in the depth
and breadth of Parkers ability to voice his ideas. The latter pieces all have
quotes from Krapps Last Tape, a play by Samuel Beckett, one of Parkers favorite
writers. And that should come as no surprise; the sense of humor and irony in
Parkers music is inseparable from his techniques. These early recordings of
Parkers solo performances pointed the way for a body of music that is singular
in its achievement, and stand the test of time on their own as brilliant,
investigative, and provocative works of a musical firebrand.~Thom Jurek

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