Evan Parker / Keith Rowe - Dark Rags (2000)

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Artist: Evan Parker / Keith Rowe
Title: Dark Rags
Year Of Release: 2000
Label: Potlatch [P 200]
Genre: Jazz, Free Improvisation, Avantgarde
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue,log) | MP3/320 kbps
Total Time: 77:47
Total Size: 333 MB(+3%) | 183 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1 Dark Rag # 1 37:22
2 Dark Rag # 2 40:25

Concert recorded at Pannonica, Nantes, on December 31th 1999 & January 1st 2000.

Evan Parker / Keith Rowe - Dark Rags (2000)

personnel :

Evan Parker - tenor saxophone
Keith Rowe - guitar, electronics

This is not the first time Evan Parker and Keith Rowe have recorded together, but what makes these two lengthy live improvisations so compelling is the seamless and almost uncanny way in which the musicians meld their creative concepts. Rowe is a surprisingly effective partner for the more aggressive Parker, as the former lays down alternatively minimalist and complex layers of electronic fabric that the saxophonist integrates in his blowing. There is always a sense of equal pairing, of smorgasbords of ambient clouds rising up in swirls of interlocking embraces. Curiously, neither of the tracks ever grows tedious, even though both hover at the 40-minute mark, and there is a certain static quality throughout. This is utterly fascinating fare, with Rowe's low-key electronics occasionally adding humor, and Parker adjusting his sometimes frenetic style by lowering the volume and bouncing delicately off the manipulated noises. Somehow, Rowe brings out qualities in the saxophonist's playing that are not usually heard; the results are often thrilling.~Steve Loewy

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