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Frondescence 08:34
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Dividuality 07:41
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Aulos 05:20
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Shifting 12:39
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Scion 01:41
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Zool 05:18
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Spinney 01:57
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Transmute 15:01
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Calyx 01:24

about

"The river creates its course and the banks which contain it, no two are identical" — Evan S. Connell

Then it begins. A seepage of sound; the source of the river.

A spring that becomes a stream flowing towards a point of convergence. They have met many times before - Barry Guy and Evan Parker - two tributaries of this never-the-same-river-twice. But this time their confluence can send them in contrary directions: The moment that is now is confused with the moment that was then; details are waylaid in a shadowy cave. The interventions and extensions produced by Lawrence Casserly act like uprooted storm-blown trees casually thrown across the river. He is also the storm. The course of Parker and Guy’s music always prone to oscillation, is here further altered: That’sheldbackbyabranch;thisispushedforwardtowardsagully; that burr bobs up in surprise; this one is going to the sea.

To take music which is already teeming with detail and alive with entanglement as Parker and Guy’s has always been and augment it with the variegated layers added by Casserly may seem absurd or unnecessary, but this Dividuality creates something new and compelling. A little of the rigorous clarity of the basic duo is sacrificed for a music which is smudged and realigned with details recovered from the process of its own making and strengthened by the stretch and stress of this intense knotting. The echo hunts the note, the shadow separates from its root.
This one gets to the sea, is swept and rolled in its suck and pull. The meas- ured insistence of each wave throws it off balance. Its elusiveness is its energy. Its end is gentle, like the water folding over on a coral beach. Then one last surge, a sudden zealous wave gathering towards its fall.

Declan O’Driscoll ‘Solaris', 2001

credits

released January 1, 2001

Evan Parker: soprano saxophone
Barry Guy: chamber double bass
Lawrence Casserley: live electronics, sound processing

Recorded 22nd February 1997 at Gateway Studios, London, England

Tracks 1,2,4,7,8 and 9 composed by Evan Parker (PRS, MCPS)
Barry Guy (PRS, MCPS, PAMRA) and Lawrence Casserley (PRS, MCPS); Track 3 composed by Evan Parker and Lawrence Casserley; Tracks 5,6 composed by Barry Guy and Lawrence Casserley

Recording engineer Steve Lowe. Mix, digital mastering at Gateway studio 8th August 2000, Evan Parker, Steve Lowe.

Executive production by Evan Parker and Barry Guy

Cover art by Paul Mosse

Titles by Michelle Minihan, Declan O’Driscoll and Maya Homburger

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Maya Recordings Oberstammheim, Switzerland

Barry Guy and Maya Homburger founded Maya Recordings in 1991 to take care of their desires to document the various projects that occupy their musical lives. So unusually
you will find Jazz and improvised musics alongside baroque masterpieces.
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