Mars Song

Mars Song Artist: Evan Parker , and Sainkho Namtchylak
Label: Victo
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 777405004222
EAN: 0777405004222
ASIN: B000008SXW


Release Date: 1996-10-24

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Tracks:

  1. Song of the Eclipse
  2. Transit of Venus
  3. Time, That Other Labyrinth - Evan Parker
  4. Mars Song
  5. Hurzu

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars disagree with other reviewer.......2006-05-01

the poly-phonic clusters of high tones emitting from Parker's horn soar and dive with the chilling vocal dexterity of Namchylak, sometimes complementing and sometimes tugging at eachother, alternating background and foreground relationships. although the 2 never mingle to form overtones (which would have been nice), the parts still form bold, and intricate interplays, weaving dynamic webs that challenge the borders of formalism as well as emotion.

it is as uncompromising a transcendental experience as recorded sound can be.

3 out of 5 stars A tough nut.......2002-03-16

Evan Parker, Sainkho Namchylak--two of the most remarkable improvisors in free music today. But put them together in a disc-long set of duets....& somehow it seems to me this is mostly fairly intractable music. I found it very hard going, & lacking in much actual drama or suspense--each musician does his/her thing, excellently but without actually producing anything that's more than the sum of its parts. (& it is also frankly pretty tough going in the squeakier bits.) It's an infinitely less humane & engaging than Namchylak's duet disc with Ned Rothenberg, _Amulet_, which I'd recommend much more strongly. With Evan Parker discs sprouting up like mushrooms in the 1990s, I can't see that this need be a high-priority purchase for any but avid collectors of the principals' work.

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