The Evan Parker

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Friulian Sketches (2008) {Psi Records psi 08.07}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde Jazz / Modern Creative / Piano

Sketches from the interface of jazz and modern chamber music. Powerful, dynamic and richly rewarding. You can probably look at the instrumentation and personnel on this disc and know approximately what to expect. Alexander von Schlippenbach will be well known to many listeners as the leader of the Schlippenbach Trio that also features Paul Lovens and Evan Parker. He’s also the founder of the Globe Unity Orchestra, and has famously recorded interpretations of all of Thelonious Monk’s original compositions.

Otolithen is a duo formed in 1993 by Päd Conca of Switzerland and Dirk Bruinsma of The Netherlands. Conca plays electric bass, a homemade string instrument, effects and foot-activated percussion, while Bruinsma sings and plays electric guitars, soprano saxophone and foot-triggered percussion. Conca and Bruinsma use prepared instruments and a wide range of effects. Their compositions exhibit rhythmic complexity, and range from delicate melodies to noisy sonic assaults. Otolithen released an album in Germany on their amf label in 1995. Their second release, S.O.D., was released by Cuneiform in 1997.

Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus - Didymoi Dreams (2012) {Rune Grammofon ‎RCD2131}
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Jazz / Avant-Garde / Experimental

From its opening moments, with vocalist Sidsel Endresen stutter singing into the echoes of a room in front of a live audience accompanied only by the glistening effects of Stian Westerhus' effects-laden guitar, it is obvious this is no common duet recording. It is not even a typical vocal-and-instrument improvisational offering. Recorded at 2011's Nattjazz Festival in Bergen, the duo engages in an astonishing variety of forms and approaches in this hour-long high-wire act. Endresen has spent over 30 years performing and composing in a wide variety of genres from traditional, folk music, film scores, jazz, mutant pop, and dance music, as well as improvisation. Westerhus is one of the great young Western European hopes for Continental jazz.

In what could easily mistaken for a release on the ECM label, Morning Glory inhabits that crisp minimalist style so familiar to producer Manfred Eicher. Surprisingly enough, this studio recording, with bonus Live In New York disc, is delivered by three of today's most zealous improvisers and outcats. Formed in 2005, the trio's previous release, Aurora (Maya, 2006), began bassist Barry Guy established their improvisation bona fides with saxophonist Evan Parker's intellectual explorations and Mats Gustafsson's noisier ones. Each player also has a dedication to classical and chamber musics and perhaps that is where these compositions and improvisations intersect.

David Sylvian, Jan Bang, Erik Honore - Uncommon Deities (2012) {SamadhiSound ss022}
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© 2012 SamadhiSound | sound cd ss022
Rock / Jazz / Avant-Garde / Experimental

6 panel digipak with a matte laminate finish featuring artwork by Hannah Bertram and art direction by David Sylvian* At last fall's Punkt Festival-one of the world's premiere get-togethers of improvising and adventurous musicians, an audio installation by David Sylvian filled the space, and the opening night celebration brought poets and musicians into the mix: the acclaimed Norwegian poets Paal-Helge Haugen and Nils Christian Moe Repstad read alongside Evan Parker and Arve Henriksen, and their works were read in English by Sylvian, whose recorded voice was accompanied by John Tilbury, Philip Jeck, and Sidsel Endresen.

Robert Dick - Our Cells Know (2016) {Tzadik TZ 4015}
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© 2016 Tzadik | TZ 4015 | Tzadik Spectrum Series
Jazz / Classical / Avant-Garde Jazz / Chamber Music / Modern Composition / Contrabass Flute

A true revolutionary, composer/performer/improviser Robert Dick has literally redefined the flute for our age. He has worked with a wide range of musicians from classical, jazz and improvised music backgrounds including Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, George Lewis and many others. Here he focuses in on the elusive contrabass flute, and uses a wide range of extended techniques including multiphonics, percussive effects, circular breathing and more! A unique and heartfelt CD of modern flute music unlike anything you have heard before!