MATTHEW SHIPP - EVAN PARKER

LEONINE ASPECTS

Matthew Shipp
Evan Parker

“At the antipodes of battles, the music of this duo is both delicate and precise”

Evan Parker: tenor & soprano saxophones
Matthew Shipp: piano

The two EVAN PARKER / MATTHEW SHIPP albums (1 double and 1 single CD)
REX WRECKS & XXX + LEONINE ASPECTS

30 euros purchased together (instead of 37 euros)

Leonine Aspect #1 (51:20 ) Play

Leonine Aspect #2 (3:51)

All compositions by Evan Parker (MCPS/PRS) and Matthew Shipp (Matt Shipp Music - ASCAP)

Recorded live by Maïkôl Seminatore on August 22nd 2017 at Théatre de la Sinne, Mulhouse France as part of Festival Météo
Mixing and mastering: Maïkôl Seminatore
Liner notes: Guillaume Malvoisin
Photographs: RogueArt
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

At the antipodes of battles, the music of this duo, both delicate and precise, delivers its meditative comments in the warmth of the lung. It is very beautiful, it imposes a form of pacifist listening which tends to respect the moment and ends up giving you back some blast. Of course, there's the control of volume and progression in this improvised set, as well as the imbalance induced by the length of the two tracks on this record. But above all, there is also what Oliver Sacks, British neurologist who died in 2015, called “a listening carried out intuitively”. With a grace as tenuous as it is bold, a dramaturgy of the minuscule and the organic is born, a form of floating beauty at the sole service of the pulse. Guillaume Malvoisin, excerpt from the liner notes

How dare we spend so much valuable energy answering such questions as "What is Jazz?".

JUST LISTEN!

MATTHEW SHIPP - EVAN PARKER

LEONINE ASPECTS

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