EVAN PARKER BOXSET LAUNCH

False Walls, music label

The event will include solo performances by EVAN PARKER (saxophone) and ROBERT STILLMAN (saxophone and electronics).

Sailor's Church

Launch event for THE HERACLITEAN TWO-STEP, etc. by Evan Parker: a 4CD collection of solo, improvised recordings by Evan Parker, along with a 120 page book. The event will include solo performances by Evan Parker and Robert Stillman. Helping to mark Evan Parker’s 80th birthday, the boxset is released by False Walls (Faversham), and includes three albums recorded at Arco Barco (Ramsgate) by Filipe Gomes (Ramsgate Radio). The book compiles both historical and contemporary perspectives on Evan’s work, by a range of contributors as well as Evan himself. The book also includes a selection of Evan’s visual collages, which are shared publicly for the first time.The launch event is supported and produced by Ramsgate Radio and False Walls. BIOGRAPHIESEvan Parker improvises on the tenor and soprano saxophone, and has performed live and recorded extensively across the UK and internationally. He has pioneered or substantially expanded an array of extended techniques for the saxophone. Though he has worked extensively in both large and small ensembles, Evan Parker is perhaps best known for his solo soprano saxophone music, a singular body of work that in recent years has centred around his continuing exploration of techniques such as circular breathing, split tonguing, overblowing, multiphonics and cross-pattern fingering. These are technical devices, yet Parker's use of them is, he says, less analytical than intuitive; he has likened performing his solo work to entering a kind of trance-state. The resulting music is certainly hypnotic, an uninterrupted flow of snaky, densely-textured sound that Parker has described as "the illusion of polyphony". Many listeners have indeed found it hard to credit that one man can create such intricate, complex music in real time.“The UK’s greatest exponent of free jazz.” — Financial Times<a href="http://evanparker.com" title="http://evanparker.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://evanparker.com</a> <a href="https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc/" title="https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.falsewalls.co.uk/release/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc/</a>Stream over an hour of music from the boxset: <a href="https://evanparkerfw.bandcamp.com/album/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc" title="https://evanparkerfw.bandcamp.com/album/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://evanparkerfw.bandcamp.com/album/the-heraclitean-two-step-etc</a> Robert Stillman is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from the northeast United States, currently based in Margate, UK. His music juxtaposes the archaic with the futuristic, incorporating influences of Jazz, Minimalism, American Folk music, and experimental electronic music to create a sound described by the Guardian Observer as “lending an avant-garde shimmer to pre-modern American sounds.” Much of Stillman’s past few years has been spent with The Smile (Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet’s Tom Skinner), touring with them as their solo support act, and as a performing member of the band. He has contributed saxophone and clarinets to their three LPs, and served as band leader for Thom Yorke’s Confidenza film soundtrack, as well as playing woodwinds on this recording. “Stillman communicates through layered jazz arrangements, playing most of the instruments himself but conjuring the sound of a full ensemble—one with the ability to mystify, dazzle, and soothe with every twist.” — Pitchfork <a href="https://robertstillman.com" title="https://robertstillman.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://robertstillman.com</a> <a href="https://archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com" title="https://archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://archaicfuturerecordings.bandcamp.com</a>

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Music (two solo performances, plus break)

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