Label: Otoroku

大正琴とのセッション録音!!英国国内外にてテナー及びソプラノサックスの即興演奏を行い膨大な数のライブ/レコーディングを展開、奏法の様々な拡張を行い即興演奏の発展に尽力してきた重鎮エヴァン・パーカー。現在まで70タイトルほどの関連音盤を出版、当店でも多くの諸作を紹介して来た百戦錬磨の米実験ギタリスト・ビル・ネースと披露した、2024年5月25日Cafe OTOでのライブ音源。なんとビル・ネースは"エレクトリック二弦大正琴"を演奏、厳つい電子音を放射しつつエヴァン・パーカーのソプラノ・サックスと見事な調和を果たした40分間。OtorokuとOpen Mouthの共同出版。



Printed on 140g black vinyl and housed in a matte varnished tip on sleeve with artwork by Bill Nace.

For his last solo record ‘Through a Room’, Bill Nace shifted his usual saturated guitar sound and added tapes, hurdy gurdy, doughnut pipe, bird calls and the mysterious Japanese taishōgoto. Setting up for the final night of his three day residency at OTO with only the taishōgoto soundchecked, Nace hoped that Parker would arrive with his small soprano as its opposite. “I’ve been interested in state change, you know, playing until there’s a shift in time.” Known for his development of multiphonics to produce a constantly shifting pattern, Evan Parker has evolved an instantly recognisable sound - his work the soprano most distinct. Happily, it was the soprano Evan brought with him and as soon as the two start to play they entwine - taking off in a double helix of keys and reed primed for endless reconfiguration. Space warps under the velocity of playing, the pitch rising unrelentingly. It felt like unending lift off in the room, sheer energy until the last note makes remember your feet have been on the floor the whole time. Total time bending shredding.

"This sound world of Bill’s two-stringed taishōgoto on this Café OTO night worked beautifully with Evan Parker’s improvisatory saxophone conceptions. The duology achieved instant lift off at ground zero only to find it’s eventual finale as if it were organically ordained. Time seemingly morphed from its ancient human construct of control, rendered inconsequential to the torrential transcendence of the room wildly activated by the magic resonance of the multi-directional pan-spatial sonance of the music as if it were some beatific blessing. It was one of those nights where art as a liberating force of spirit gifted the listeners with an offering of exaltation and joy. It was entirely mystical and mind blowing. A night of Total Music." - Thurston Moore, London, 2025

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Bill Nace / electric two string taishōgoto
Evan Parker / soprano saxophone