Imaginary Values, by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton

Imaginary Values

by Evan Parker, Barry Guy, Paul Lytton

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1.	Form 12:15
2.	Content 08:34	buy track
3.	Agreement 07:19	buy track
4.	Distinction 10:06	buy track
5.	Identity 07:28	buy track
6.	Value 07:42	buy track
7.	Consequence 02:12	buy track
8.	Invariance 03:28	buy track
9.	Variance 04:14	buy track

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"Tenor and soprano saxophonist Evan Parker's whirlwind circular breathing couples tones in a dizzying array of decenteredness, frayed further by windy echoes of the horn's machinery while he overblows torrents of energy. Parker, bassist Barry Guy, and drummer Paul Lytton share near-telepathic dialogue in this loosely formulated expanse that is at once personalised and left wide open. Guy thumps his bass with such energy that at times he sounds like the drummer, while Lytton bows his drums, assuming the bassist's role, and Parker delivers solos like several saxophonists expanding multiple horns' ranges all at once. Imaginary Values compels as both an idea and a fully visceral sonic experience."

— Andrew Bartlett

"All through this record, and more strikingly so in the shorter conclusive pieces, the music takes that ultimate sense of inevitability which signals the perfect combination of sensibility, timing and personal creative use of the instruments into a collective statement formulated right in front of the listener. And in the end this is what music is all about."

— Francesco Martinelli

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released January 1, 1994

Evan Parker: soprano-/tenor-saxophones
Barry Guy: double bass, chamber bass
Paul Lytton: drums, cymbals and percussion

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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. ... more

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