Back to the Roots (of my obsession?)

I figured it was about time to post some music that is in my humble opinion truly amazing. There is also a story behind this one as well. Right around 2001, I finally had enough money to actually purchase my own computer (a Mac by the way). A little bit after that I actually was connected to the Internet and started to enjoy all of the streaming radio stations I could find on iTunes. One day was listening to DI.fm, and suddenly a track from Evan Parker and Eddie Prevost came on. At the time, I had never heard of either one (I was "safe" in the realm of Mingus, Ornette and Coltrane) and I just stopped what I was doing at the time and listened. I can't say I was immediately of the mindset of "Wow, that is just the best stuff I have ever heard!," but I was really floored. I had never heard anything like they were playing, with its mysteriousness and creative power. When the track finally finished, all I could think of was how I wished I could have heard it again--and soon! All thanks for the track information streamed along with the station--I immediately wrote it down and began my first real search for a hard-to-find album. I ended up finding a used copy on eBay for about 15 bucks if I remember correctly, but that whole double album completely changed my outlook on music. I still have the postcard photo of Parker with his soprano that came with the liner notes pinned to my fridge. None of my friends could understand what I was so excited about (I wasn't even sure if I knew either, or for that matter still know...), but that album set off something in me that has yet to be quenched. Even though I have found other albums that I like perhaps even better from Parker (still haven't heard anything else by Prevost), this set still gives me the chills. To each their own, but try listening to this by yourself when you are otherwise unoccupied and in an introspective frame of mind. I'm not saying you are going to like it, but give it a chance and you never know what might happen...
J-Bombay



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Evan Parker, saxophones; Eddie Prévost, percussion
128 Rate AAC Files
(Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding if this disappoints you)

Disc 1:

Double truth (of reason and revelation) (19.51)
Knowledge is power (13.36)
Rejecting simple enumeration (13.46)
That more might have been done, or sooner (29.00)

Disc 2:
Nil novum (12.01)
Skill gave rise to chance, and chance to skill (09.26)
Not so much for the sake of arguing as for the sake of living (12.24)
Let us attend to present business (11.19)
Chastise me, but listen (16.42)

Recorded at Gateway Studios, Kingston, England on 23 February 1997 (CD A and B1) and 13 April 1997 (other tracks).
Front cover painting (reproduced above) Djebel nefousa by Brenda Mayo, 1993.

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