Parker, Evan - Eleventh Hour, The
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"Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble produces one of the most difficult and mystifying masses of sound in modern music. ... The English saxophonist's experiment is something terrifying, which throws off its moorings entirely. Regular notions of line and rhythms are gone, forcing listeners into an emotional space that most rarely - or only reluctantly - go. The fundamental idea hasn't changed on The Eleventh Hour. Parker creates a sound field for acoustic instruments and electronics, where free improvisation wrestles with real-time sound processing. That's the basis of the five-part 60-minute title piece, which is a platform for duos, trios and other groupings. ... It's powerful music, and the embodiment of an acquired taste."
(Downbeat)
"This is the fourth album from Parker's ever-expanding Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and things begin to assume the scale of a big band or orchestra. ... It doesn't matter where these sounds begin or end, nor which is "acoustic" or which "electro". What matters is the seemingly endless shapes, structures, ideas and colours that emerge. A dialogue between piano and live processing instrument assumes a marvellous liquidity of sound, while violin or saxophone mutate into shards of glittering glissandi. Form is important here, though much of it arises in the interaction, and there is a strong sense of something of developing suite-like proportions. It would make wonderful music for a film, preferably something futuristic or expressionistic. ... Highly original and absolutely remarkable."
(Jazzwise)
Evan Parker, soprano saxophone, voice
Philipp Wachsmann ,violin, live electronics
Paul Lytton, percussion, live electronics
Agustí Fernandez, piano, prepared piano
Adam Linson, double-bass
Lawrence Casserley, signal processing instrument, persussion, voice
Joel Ryan, sample and signal processing
Walter Prati, computer processing
Richard Barrett, sampling keyboard, live electronics
Paul Obermayer, sampling keyboard, live electronics
Marco Vecchi, sound projection
Recorded November 2004