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Released
  
May 1988 (1988-05)

The Snake Decides (1988)
  
Conic Sections (1989)

Release date
  
May 1988

Label
  
PSI

Recorded
  
January 30, 1986

Artist
  
Evan Parker

Producer
  
Michael Gerzon

Genre
  
Jazz

The Snake Decides httpswwwallaboutjazzcomcoverart2010evanpar

Studio
  
St Paul's Church, Oxford, England

Evan Parker albums
  
Monoceros, The Topography of the Lun, After Appleby, Foxes Fox

Evan parker the snake decides


The Snake Decides is an album by British jazz saxophonist Evan Parker. It was released in 1988 on Parker and Derek Bailey's Incus Records label, and re-released on Parker's Psi label in 2003. It is currently out of print.

Contents

The album features four unaccompanied saxophone solos, recorded by sound engineer Michael Gerzon in St Paul's Church, Oxford, England in 1986. The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album one of its rare crown accolades, in addition to featuring it as part of its Core Collection. It declares the album to be equally a great recording as a record, and "an essential document of modern music".

The wood cut reproduced on the cover is by George Murphy.

Track listing

All compositions by Evan Parker
  1. "The Snake Decides" – 19:56
  2. "Leipzig Folly" – 11:42
  3. "Buriden's Ass" – 6:29
  4. "Haine's Last Tape" – 6:01

Personnel

  • Evan Parker – soprano saxophone
  • Songs

    1The Snake Decides20:04
    2Leipzig Folly11:55
    3Buriden's Ass6:38

    References

    The Snake Decides Wikipedia