Evan Parker, Eddie Prévost
Most Materiall (2CD)
LabelMatchless RecordingsGenreJazz & Improvisation
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"Double album, double solos of two distinctive musicians, becoming duets in a relatively rare space between solo playing and ensemble. Reed and percussion start at different places, the working through breath, the other pulse of materials being struck, one typically characterised by line, the other by attack, producing in the first pitch configurations, in the second beat patterns (Eddie Prévost doesn't use the specifically pitched mallet instruments). Each player comes with a distinctive sonic identity, but they're frequently crossing. the main intersection is sonority. The saxophone can splutter, click and gesture, notably in the extreme registers and the rapid shifts between them, with just sound. Prévost makes long, sustained attackless sounds by bowing his cymbals and gong, and his invented string drum tosses up melodic fragments. Percussion drives and saxophone sings, Evan Parker can drive just as hard and Prévost makes a singing sound. Sometimes you can't tell which of the two's sounds you're hearing." - Christian Wolff.
Format
Recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston, England on February 23rd (CD 'A', and 'B' 1) and April 13th (CD 'B' 2, 3, 4, 5) 1997.
© & ℗1997
The titles for all the pieces are quotations from Francis Bacon (1561-1626).
Cover painting: Djebel Nefousa 1993
Release notes
Recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston, England on February 23rd (CD 'A', and 'B' 1) and April 13th (CD 'B' 2, 3, 4, 5) 1997. © & ℗1997 The titles for all the pieces are quotations from Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Cover painting: Djebel Nefousa 1993
| CD 'A' | |||
| 1-1 | Double Truth (Of Reason And Revelation) | 19:51 | |
| 1-2 | Knowledge Is Power | 13:36 | |
| 1-3 | Rejecting Simple Enumeration | 13:46 | |
| 1-4 | That Might Have Beene Done, Or Sooner | 29:00 | |
| CD 'B' | |||
| 2-1 | Nil Novum | 12:01 | |
| 2-2 | Skill Gave Rise To Chance, And Chance To Skill | 9:26 | |
| 2-3 | Not So Much For The Sake Of Arguing As For The Sake Of Living | 12:24 | |
| 2-4 | Let Us Attend To Present Business | 11:19 | |
| 2-5 | Chastise Me, But Listen | 16:42 | |
- Steve Lowe
- Engineer
- Christian Wolff
- Liner Notes
- Eddie Prévost
- Music By, Percussion
- Evan Parker
- Music By, Saxophone [Saxophones]
- Brenda Mayo
- Painting [Front Cover Painting]







































































