Release Date: 26 October 2018
Label: Maya
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7640120198756
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
This release on Maya Recordings documents a duo collaboration of avant-garde jazz bass legend Barry Guy together with the exceptional percussionist Ramon Lopez.
Barry Guy: "It was at Ramón Lopez' suggestion that we record as a duo in the downtime of another studio session, and perhaps it was his constellation of drums and cymbals that prompted the thought of a metaphorical planetary system. So 'Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger' the title of Galileo Galilei's short astronomical treatise published in early 1610, did not necessarily stretch the imagination unduly - there it was in front of me!
Galilei's telescopic observations of the moon and other celestial bodies for the first time illuminated details of planets near and far in our solar system. In a not dissimilar way, the studio microphones act like a telescope, bringing details of our own musical cosmos into sharp definition, illuminating the sometimes craggy terrain of our deliberations, but also observing the more spacious musical topography."
Tracklisting
Evan Parker & Barry Guy
Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson & Raymond Strid
Barry Guy & Agusti Fernandez
Evan Parker & Barry Guy
Agusti Fernandez, Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez
Paul Rutherford, Phillip Wachsmann & Buddy Guy
Ken Vandermark, Barry Guy & Mark Sanders
Evan Parker, Barry Guy & Paul Lytton
Various Artists
The Residents
The Residents
Sun Ra
Elton Dean
Soft Head
Mike Osborne Trio
Lol Coxhill
