Eddie Prévost

Loci of Change is the first solo record by Eddie Prévost, the percussionist and founding member of AMM, recorded in a single studio day in 1996 and produced by Evan Parker. It opened a line of solo albums on Matchless Recordings that continued with Material Consequences (recorded 2001), Entelechy (2005) and the concert disc Collider (2012). Here Prévost gathers what Parker called a lifelong study of percussion into one hour of music.

The session took place at Gateway Studio in Kingston, England, on 10 September 1996, with Steve Lowe as recording engineer. The six pieces range from the four and a half minutes of Octavian Law to the twenty of the title track. Some titles read like an inventory of the sounds themselves, such as Squeal, Sough and Stridulate or Rumble, Buzz, Hum, Pound and Crash. Parker, who also wrote the booklet notes, observed that Prévost had found ways of making his instruments "reveal hidden aspects of their voices". He heard in these first solo recordings an anthology of that study, with a freshness suggesting that the research was far from over. In the same notes he described the music as opening a "new space where we can sit quietly and be absorbed in listening".

Released by Matchless Recordings in 1996 as MRCD32, subtitled Sound and Sensibility, a CD with an eight-page booklet and cover artwork by Keith Rowe using photographs by Paige Mitchell.