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d i s s i d e n t
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a r t i s t : Evan Parker & Eddie Prevost
t i t l e : Most Materiall
d a t e : 1997
l a b e l : Matchless
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : May/05/2003
t r a c k s : 09
b i t r a t e : 192kbps
s i z e : 189,9 MB
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This is matchless all right. There is almost nothing in the way
of language a review of these astonishing recordings can say.
It is easier to talk about them then to reveal what they are
about musically or esthetically. Master percussionist Eddie
Prevost ù who regards bowing strange things on metal objects
percussion as well as drums, and right he is ù and saxophonist
Evan Parker have recorded a double CD of duets that is so
invigorating, confounding, and hysterically beautiful, no one
could blame either man if he gave it up right now. There are
nine selections between the two discs, ranging in time from
nine and a half minutes to over half an hour. All of the titles
are quotations from Francis Bacon, who would have been proud to
have his spirit evoked during them. This isn't simply
improvisation; this is investigation in the same way that
Charles Olson's Maximus poems were investigations, in the same
way that Pico Iyer and Bruce Chatwin's journeys were
investigations, and in the same way that Stockhausen's Hymnen
is an investigation. These pieces go after the rooted heart of
sound itself, the veiled face of that magical echo that dwells
inside and outside of everything, in order to find out how it
spells its name and how it decides which hearty to beat. There
are flurries and drones and conflicts and resolutions and
downright mystical moments of pure Blakean illumination. This
is music that's about so much more than music that it cannot be
addressed in merely musical terms. This is the very case in
point of Henry James' definition of art: this is the "thing
that can never be repeated."
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CD1
01-Double Truth [19:52]
02-Knowledge Is Power [13:38]
03-Rejecting Simple Enumeration [13:46]
04-That More Might Have Been Done, or Sooner [29:00]
CD2
01-Nil Novum [12:02]
02-Skill Gave Rise to Chance, and Chance to [09:28]
03-Not So Much for the Sake of Arguing as for [12:25]
04-Let Us Attend to Present Business [11:20]
05-Chastise Me, But Listen [16:42]
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