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Released
  
1997

Length
  
60:40

Release date
  
1997

Label
  
ECM Records

Recorded
  
May 1996

Artist
  
Evan Parker

Producer
  
Steve Lake

Genre
  
Jazz

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Toward the Margins (1996)
  
At the Vortex (1996) (1996)

Similar
  
Evan Parker albums, Jazz albums

Toward the Margins is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded in 1996 and released on the ECM New Series label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Steve Loewy awarded the album 4 stars stating "Founded in 1992, Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble is a highly sophisticated grouping, which for this recording conceptually pairs three acoustic musicians with electronic tone manipulators... It is all fascinating stuff, and if it does not swing or fit into any easy definitions of "jazz," it takes the concept of improvisation to a new level. There is sometimes an aimlessness to it all that can be off-putting, but concentrated listening can produce wonderful rewards for the patient consumer".

Track listing

All compositions by Evan Parker except as indicated
  1. "Toward the Margins" (Barry Guy, Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann) - 4:34
  2. "Turbulent Mirror" - 5:54
  3. "Field and Figure" (Guy, Parker) - 7:06
  4. "The Regenerative Landscape (For AMM)" - 3:36
  5. "Chain of Chance" (Marco Vecchi, Paul Lytton, Walter Prati) - 4:19
  6. "Trahütten" (Parker, Wachsmann) - 6:20
  7. "Shadow Without an Object: Engagement/Reversal/Displacement" (Guy, Parker, Vecchi, Lytton, Wachsmann, Prati) - 6:02
  8. "Epanados" (Guy, Parker, Vecchi, Lytton, Wachsmann, Prati) - 4:29
  9. "Born Cross-Eyed (Remembering Fuller)" (Lytton) - 2:52
  10. "Philipp's Pavilion" (Parker, Wachsmann) - 7:33
  11. "The Hundred Books (For Idries Shah)" - 4:09
  12. "Contra-Dance" (Guy, Parker) - 3:38
  • Recorded at Gateway Studios in London, England in May 1996.

    • Personnel

  • Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
  • Barry Guy - double bass
  • Paul Lytton - percussion, live-electronics
  • Philipp Wachsmann - violin, viola, live electronics, sound processing
  • Walter Prati - live electronics, sound processing
  • Marco Vecchi - live electronics, sound processing

    • References

    Toward the Margins Wikipedia
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