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Artist:	PARKER/SAINKHO NAMTCHYLAK, EVAN
Title:	Mars Song
Label:	VICTO (CANADA)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	VICTO 042CD

Duos recorded in Toronto in 1996 between Evan (soprano and tenor saxophones) and the amazing female vocalist from Tuva, Sainkho. "Having listened to Evan for close to 25 years in a multitude of configurations, there has always been surprise and challenge in his ever developing music; the solo music especially. If one investigates the recordings, mostly soprano, it becomes apparent that he is gradually releasing all the inner voices contained in his horn, and this time there appeared two distinct lines, overlapping, in parallel, joined in harmonics. The inclusion of the tenor in his solo music has opened up yet another avenue, perhaps for even the simple reason of it having a curved bell and being an octave lower. Although I had heard Sainkho Namtchylak recordings on Leo and FMP, I was quite unprepared for the live experience. Her arsenal of sounds come not as trick singing, but story-like, at times vague notions of Madame Butterfly enter my thoughts, another gurgling dialogue of happy babies; and then so low and deep in the throat as to create a definite shiver. When they joined the saxophone and voice together, they existed in the space between my ears rather than outside in, filling my brain. Astounding music." --Bill Smith.

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