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PSI 09.10CD
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"Three live performances of collaborative electroacoustic compositions from 2007-08, recorded in London, Brisbane and Antwerp, each exploring different points of contact between precomposed structures and spontaneous invention: a duo adrift (in memory of Paul Rutherford) with pianist Sarah Nicolls, a nonet codex IX (in memory of Mauricio Kagel) with the Elision ensemble, and a 17-piece group with Ensemble Champ d'Action realizing codex VII (to Vinko Globokar)."
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PSI 09.07CD
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Stephen Grew (keyboard, processing), Richard Scott (buchla lightning, analogue synthesizer, sampler, processing), Nick Grew (transduction, processing) & David Ross (drosscillator) + special guests Orphy Robinson (vibraphone) & Paul Obermayer (sampler). (2006-8) "Grutronic are a collective of free improvisers -- all have a past/present as acoustic ensemble players. In Grutronic they are re-incarnated as electronic musicians, extending technique through the development of personalized systems of sound production and control. Current intuitive and performance-oriented technologies put tools and techniques, once the preserve of the electronic music studio, into the hands of the players. Grutronic take on these new challenges with glee, aiming to surprise and delight the listener and themselves with unheard forms and sound-relationships, fixed during the act of performance."
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PSI 09.03CD
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"Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument and voice) & Adam Linson (double bass, live processing and sampling) met first when Adam joined the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble for the Free RadiCCAls festival at the CCA, Glasgow in November, 2004. They formed an almost instant rapport, which has continued ever since. During Lawrence's European tour in May, 2007 they met again and performed with the Ensemble in Cologne, after which Lawrence spent several days in Berlin. For two of those days they recorded together in Adam's studio. On the first day they stuck to their basic instruments -- Adam on bass while Lawrence was processing. On the second day they experimented with adding Adam's own processing and Lawrence's voice to the mix. Most of the tracks on this CD come from the first day. The enthusiasm, excitement and energy of those sessions will be abundantly clear from this CD." 56 minutes.
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PSI 09.02CD
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Per Anders Nilsson (computer and synthesizer), Sten Sandell (piano, prepared piano, electronics and voice), and Raymond Strid (percussion). "Beam Stone was founded a year before this October 2007 recording. The trio consists of three free improvisers, each with a distinctive personal sound. Their aim with Beam Stone is to explore sonic territories with the guidance of different pre-defined concepts. Listening and sonic exploration are considered the essential points of departure."
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PSI 08.09CD
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"The first solo CD by John Edwards, increasingly recognized as one of the most significant players of his generation. Recorded in splendid detail by John Wall, these nine tracks are a very fresh take on the possibilities of unamplified double bass playing, making it a major entry in the solo bass literature." "This solo recording is an unusual and rare offering that comes from a musician who performs every day, every week, and appears on over 100 records. It's a selection of sounds, melodies, and gestures from this characteristic spectrum, combined with behaviors belonging to a virtuoso, and with those that can only be learned from persistent jig sawing or by illuminating and fusing all user manuals." -- From the notes by Marek Tuszynski. Has been referenced as Steve Beresford's "Best Record Of 2008".
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PSI 08.08CD
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Ray Warleigh (alto saxophone & flute), Tony Marsh (percussion). "'What I play is absolutely unpremeditated. There are no soundscapes or pictures in my head. But I like melody very much, and I've thought about it a lot.' After several attempts to make relatively lavish studio productions we agreed that the music here had the spirit that Ray wanted regardless, or perhaps because, of the absolutely basic way in which it was recorded. Unbelievably, this is only the second album made under his leadership -- the first was made in 1968! His consistently fine playing can be heard in duo with long-term associate Tony Marsh, whose drumming just gets better and better."
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PSI 08.06CD
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"Founded in 1998, the LIO has been a focal point for the community of improvising musicians in London. This CD features four total improvisations (from 2003 & 2007) selected from the archive of concert recordings made at their monthly appearances at the Red Rose."
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PSI 08.05CD
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"John Eckhardt brings the technique and sensibility required by the music of Xenakis, Feldman and Ligeti to this debut recording of double bass improvisations recorded in 2007. Some of the sounds on this CD might suggest electronic manipulation or overdubbing (which have nowhere been used) -- one of Eckhardt's principal musical strategies is to explore the polyphonic potential of a given playing situation, and another is to concentrate to a seemingly obsessive degree on a seemingly restricted area of instrumental technique until it yields up its inner variety and complexity."
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PSI 08.04CD
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Paolo Angeli (Sardinian guitar & electronics), Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), Ned Rothenberg (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet). "The Free Zone in 2007 was played by just three. The smaller than usual line up allowed for a more intense investigation of the relationships between the players. For the first time an entire set was played by all three musicians and this set was so successful that it is presented unedited, along with two duos. There will be no Appleby Festival in 2008, and therefore for the moment the sequence comes to an end with what many people considered the most successful Free Zone ever."
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PSI 08.03CD
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"The whole of Fred Van Hove's 52-minute solo piano concert performance at the Jazz à Mulhouse summer festival 2007. The music here reveals one of the giants of improvised music at the height of his creative powers." 52 minutes.
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PSI 07.05/06CD
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"Furt [Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer] (electronics), John Butcher (soprano & tenor saxophones), Rhodri Davies (harps), Paul Lovens (drums), Phil Minton (voice), Wolfgang Mitterer (piano, electronics), Ute Wassermann (voice). Recorded at the SWR New Jazz Meeting in December 2005, is the first release from an ongoing project in which Furt is expanded into an electroacoustic octet with a unique collective sound, where vocals, instruments and electronics coalesce into a dense but transparent vortex."
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PSI 07.04CD
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"Evan Parker (soprano & tenor saxophones), Paul Rutherford (trombone), Rudi Mahall (bass clarinet), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics), Alexander von Schlippenback (piano), Aki Takase (piano), Paul Lovens (drums). The acoustics of Ancient Space and Chris Trent's engineering sensibilities bring an international combination of some of Evan Parker's favorite musicians in a full program of open playing. Four duos, five trios and a quartet." 79 minutes.
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PSI 07.03CD
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"The second CD by the trio of Rex Casswell (electric guitar), Phillip Marks (percussion) and Paul Obermayer (samples). London, 2004. Bark! take their group virtuosity to new areas, creating beautiful jagged, sharp edged textures propelled by some of their tightest, strangest, most powerful rhythmic designs yet. James Brown meets the spirit of Modernism!"
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PSI 07.01CD
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"Lawrence Casserley (signal processing instrument), Simon Desorgher (flute & bass flute), with Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), David Stevens (computer processing), Philipp Wachsmann (violin). Lawrence Casserley and Simon Desorgher have been performing in and around Peter Jones' inflatable structures since the early '80s, and as Directors of the Colourscape Music Festivals have invited many performers to work with them and create new performance possibilities in these intensely special environments. Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann and David Stevens are among them, and various combinations of these players have occurred in many contexts before; but it was in the ColourDome in Exeter in July 2006 that we first played together as a quintet. ColourDome is a vibrant and special atmosphere in which to work, and that day in Exeter was very hot; the intensity of the color and the heat are embedded in these performances. Maybe that explains the intensely colored music, and the way in which our individual sounds frequently melt into one!"
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PSI 06.09CD
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Richard Barrett & Paul Obermayer: live electronics. Recorded 2005/6. "Furt's new CD combines live sets from Durham and Belfast into a vertiginous journey lasting almost 78 minutes. Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer once more redefine the outer limits of intensity, virtuosity and improvisational rapport in electronic music in Omnivm, named after 'the essential inherent interior essence which is hidden in the root of the kernel of everything' in Flann O'Brien's novel The Third Policeman."
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PSI 06.06CD
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"Kenny Wheeler (trumpet), Gerd Dudek (tenor saxophone), Paul Dunmall (soprano & tenor saxophones), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin, electronics), John Edwards (bass), Paul Rogers (bass), Tony Levin (drums), Tony Marsh (drums). The acoustics of Ancient Space and Chris Trent's engineering sensibilities bring a more free jazz orientated combination of some of Evan Parker's favourite musicians in a full programme of open playing. Three trios, a quartet and a nonet."
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PSI 06.04CD
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"Adam Linson made his debut recording with the ElectroAcoustic Ensemble's latest CD for ECM, The Eleventh Hour. Here is his first solo recording featuring his real time processing and sampling in a new approach to solo bass."
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PSI 06.02CD
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"Groups in the range septet to tentet are increasingly possible, given the long term commitment to free improvisation from London-based musicians. This CD features two extended octet improvisations by Neil Metcalfe (flute), John Rangecroft (clarinet), Evan Parker (tenor saxophone), Philipp Wachsmann (violin), Marcio Mattos (cello), John Edwards (bass), John Russell (guitar), and Agustí Fernández (piano) -- plus a string quintet, and some short trios and duos."
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PSI 05.05CD
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Free improvisations by: Evan Parker -- soprano saxophone, Barry Guy -- bass, Paul Lytton -- percussion, Philipp Wachsmann -- violin and electronics, and Joel Ryan -- live processing of pre-recorded samples and live input -- the four duos with Ryan, and the four trios without him. Duos and trios, recorded 7/24/05.
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PSI 05.03CD
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"This saxophone/piano/bass group, recorded at the Loft in Köln in 2003, continues the tradition of the drummerless trio in improvised music. With Barre Phillips, the continuity extends all the way back to the legendary Jimmy Giuffre Trio."
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PSI 04.08CD
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Digital concrete music, based on the source sounds of Evan Parker. "The wizard of Steim studios in Amsterdam applies his digital mastery to create amazing variations on the music of Evan Parker."
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PSI 04.10CD
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"Recorded in concert at Freedom of the City 2004, this presents pianist Sten Sandell and guitarist David Stackenäs -- two of the key players in the Swedish free scene -- solo, in duo and in quintet with the Old Team."
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PSI 04.05CD
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Duos, quartets and quintets of free improvisations by: Tony Coe clarinet / John Edwards bass / Alan Hacker clarinet / Sylvia Hallett violin, voice, sarangi / Marcio Mattos cello / Evan Parker tenor saxophone / Philipp Wachsmann violin, electronics / Kenny Wheeler flugelhorn.
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PSI 02.01CD
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"The saxophonist in a straight-ahead jazz date with John Parricelli (electric guitar), Chris Laurence (double bass) & Tony Levin (drums)." From Evan Parker's liner notes: "Gerd is a holy one. Music incarnate, an Adolphian centaur -- impossible to say where the body and the saxophone separate."
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