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Osho/Grief/Regret

Duo with Evan Parker (Staatsbank, Berlin, 6 July 2002)

Preludi uudelle elämälle (2013) - Prelude to a new life

Saana Laitinen, violin
Martti Laitinen, organ

For sheet music, please visit <a href="http://www.sulasol.fi">Sulasol</a>

Preludi uudelle elämälle

Available to pre-order soon!

Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar 
Sachiko M - Sine Waves 
Evan Parker - Saxophones 
John Edwards - Double Bass 
Tony Marsh - Drums 
John Butcher - Saxophones (Side B)

Recorded during Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M's first residency at Cafe OTO in 2009. The excerpt above is from the second (Sextet) side of the LP.

Otomo is in residency again at Cafe OTO on 20 & 21st September and also joins FIRE! as a special guest (alongside Mariam Wallentin) on the 19th! 

More info: http://cafeoto.co.uk/fire-with-special-guests-otomo-yoshihide-mariam-wallentin.shtm

Otomo Yoshihide / Sachiko M / Evan Parker / John Edwards / Tony Marsh / John Butcher

Live aus dem Landesgymnasium für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" September 2013  Daniel Thiele Cello und Camillo Radicke Klavier

Arvo Pärt  Spiegel Im Spiegel (mirror in mirror)

Second Regret (Instrumental version)

Martti Anttila – Vesa

säv./san. trad., sov. Essi-Reetta Särkämö/Riivatun Akat

Heppa (Demo 2014)

Commissioned by Danish performance group Hotel Pro Forma to write the music for their opera based on Charles Darwin and his book 'On the Origin of the Species', The Knife decided to make this a collaborative process, working with artists Mt. Sims and Planningtorock for the first time, to capture the huge width of the Darwin and evolution theme.

More information at http://theknife.net

Intro

Epochs

Under the Influence

Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me (feat. Elton John)

Jan 2008 - Evan Parker / John Russell / John Edwards

Mira – me Miguel
“Traditional regional song from the North East of Portugal-Trás-os-montes”

Mira me Miguel
Como estou de bonitinha
Saia de burel
Camisinha de estopinha

Tengo três meninos, ca tem nada pa das
Pongo me a cantar
E enshinar a bailar

Baila Pedro Baila
Sinhora mcre um pom
Baila mais um czichitcha
Qui logo ti darão

English:
Look at me Miguel
How beautiful I look
With my skirt and a shirt

I have three sons, I have nothing to give them
I start to sing
And I teach how to dance

Dance Pedro Dance
Lady give me bread
Dance just a bit more
And soon it will be given to you…

Arrangement : Theo Pascal
Music and Lyric :  Traditional (Public Domain)


Mira Me Miguel

Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones),
a/ duo avec Dominic Lash (2011) : Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Dominic Lash (double bass)  >(12'38) 
b/ + c/ trio avec  Benoît Delbecq & Toma Gouband (2014) : Evan Parker (sax), Benoît Delbecq (piano) - Toma Gouband (percussions) >(33'26) 
d/ trio avec Paul Rogers & Mark Sanders (2014) : Evan Parker (sax), Paul Rogers (bass), Mark Sanders (drums), 2014 >(51'13) 
photo: Evan Parker 2014 © Peter Gannushkin
Evan PARKER official website > http://evanparker.com/contact.php
Improposition > https://www.facebook.com/improposition
music addict (addicted to music) > https://www.facebook.com/pages/music-addict-addicted-to-music/219290701421363

improposition #72 [music addict #159/20141028] Evan Parker : concerts 2011 - 2014

Artist: Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp
Album: Floating Ice

Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp - Floating Ice

Wierd Old Creepy Carton With Erie Experimental Music

'C-Section' LP, 2010 (PAN 9)
All sounds by John Wiese & Evan Parker.
http://p-a-n.org/shop/

John Wiese / Evan Parker — C-Section (PAN 9)

Here's a stream of the Matthew Shipp Trio's rendition of the Duke Ellington tune "In A Sentimental Mood" from their 2015 release, 'To Duke.'

Matthew Shipp Trio, "In A Sentimental Mood" from 'To Duke'

excerpts from the vijay iyer trio's new album ACCELERANDO (release date: march 2012).

2 Optimism

3 The Star Of A Story

Track from upcoming a cappella album by Man Ex Maqina: the new brain child of Maxwell Moya Wright (Ojos de Brujo), featuring several Barcelona based talent, such as Mel (Black Gandhi), Tula, Nubla, Ayesha, David (Calima) and many more.

Go Stop is a silently seething song about moving on too quickly. "Skipping off on your stepping stones". Initially written about someone else, until I realised it was actually about me too. Featuring Ayesha (Misnoma, Novo, Ayesha) and Ashwin Srinivasan (Nitin Sawhney) on vocals (well, they're all vocals actually, hence "a cappella") and Max Moya Wright (Ojos de Brujo) and Tom Williams (Acoustic Cuts Experiment) on vocal percussion and beatboxing.



Go stop- Man ex Maqina feat. Ayesha

John Cage's Haiku performed by Yijuan Geng, recorded live at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall February 6, 2012.
Cage visited New England Conservatory for a festival of his music in 1991. In 2012, we celebrate his centennial with performances by NEC's
musicians here and around Boston.
for more information:http://necmusic.edu/cage

John Cage: Haiku (1951)

J.R. Monterose - soprano sax / Reg Schwager - guitar

Here is J.R. teaching me his song K.D. (which was dedicated to Kenny Dorham).  The chords were written out but the melody wasn't.  Then J.R. plays a wonderfully fresh solo.  Quite a lesson.

J.R. Monterose plays K.D. - rehearsal in Montreal - April 1984

Sad Instrumental Cello music

" . . . everything here is circular. While the musicians are often playing continuously they only enter the foreground at distinct and isolated moments, as if circling through patterns in which they sometimes move into temporal zones indicating high volume. That sense of a score (or scroll or star map) is strong here. Parker employs circular breathing, initially for brief passages, later at greater length, reiterating short scalar phrases. The phrases are varied, first incrementally and then expansively, multiplying through overtones. There’s a sense that certain sounds – the tenor phrases, a particularly abrasive cymbal scrape – are being looped, entering at irregular intervals, sometimes triggered by one another, creating a sense of ongoing structure that’s further magnified by Coxon’s drones, occasional squiggly guitar figures and subtle references to blues. It’s subtle, continuous work." - Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure

"Something is going on here but we do not really know what. Coxon, who is a very unusual guitarist, can make his instrument sound like a toy clock or the zither in “The Third Man”, together with Parker’s elaborate sax techniques and Prévost’s almost unbearable high-pitched bowed sounds these sound splinters create an uncomfortable world, as if a man was on the run, afraid of something horrible." - Martin Schray, Free Jazz

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Diverse musical elements - coruscating cymbal scrapes, shimmering amplifier hum, melancholy saxophone circlings, sharp hits of snare, string and reed, slow motion guitar riffs, deep tam-tam surges and floor tom rasps, hypnotic prepared piano figures, and hovering fragments of song-like melodies - fracture and coalesce in this single intense improvisation.

Featuring two of the foundational figures of free improvisation alongside a younger arrival, this recording captures the first meeting of this trio. They had all played together before separately, and the combination of familiarity and unfamiliarity proved productive: there's plenty of divergence and convergence here, and plenty of tension too - most interestingly, perhaps, in their differing approaches to repetition and tonality. At times coming uncomfortably close to each other, at times standing far apart, the trio moves inexorably towards a beautiful - and, in its simplicity, startling - conclusion.

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1. Cinema - 54:53

John Coxon - electric guitar and prepared piano 
Evan Parker - tenor saxophone 
Eddie Prévost - percussion

Recorded by Tom Bugs live at The Cube, Bristol on 8 March 2008 
Mixed by Rick Campion at City University Music Studios 
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux at Gray's Inn Road 
Many thanks to Mark & Chiz (Qu Junktions) and all at The Cube 
Artwork by James Vickery 
Music by John Coxon, Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost

Hand-numbered edition of 500 CDs with 350gsm card outer cover and 150gsm paper inner cover with monochrome risograph print.

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http://recordings.fataka.net/products/507327-cinema-john-coxon-evan-parker-eddie-prevost-fataka-1

Cinema (excerpt) - John Coxon, Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost - Cinema (Fataka 1)

Brahms Trio no 1 Opus 8 - 2

I Want You Back (feat. Sara Bareilles)

Shackle can't resist rehearsing on a regular basis. Anne has moved on to Max6 and Robert is going to have new controllers custom built.


Shackle 26feb2013

A small sampler of Karl Hyde's new album Edgeland

Karl Hyde - Edgeland - Sampler

Everything is Awful

Matthew Shipp and Rob Brown at The Stone, 4/4/13

Label based in Berlin, est. 2008. http://www.p-a-n.org