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Release Date: 30 October 2026
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8054154650651
Genres: Jazz Avant-garde
Description
Axieme is a live solo album by avant-garde saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded in September 1975 in the acoustic spaces of the 13th century Church of San Francesco, Como, Italy and originally released by Red Records in 1993. Now remastered and reissued on CD, the album contains Lacy's compositions 'Deadline', 'The NewDuck', 'Tao (Suite)', 'Coastline', and 'The Crust".
In the six tracks of Axieme, lies all the playful curiosity and gentle nature of this sound-disruptor; here directly confronted with the possibilities for interaction suggested by the emptiness of a hall; and there he is, then, moving away from and towards the microphone, pushing his breath almost to the point of distorting the brass, and, immediately afterwards, almost exiting the stage, to feel just how much the "endless spaces and superhuman silences" are a fundamental part of musical language.
Steve Lacy, alone on stage, grappling with the possibilities of silence: the echoes, the excesses, the ways in which the emptiness and fullness of his jazz shift and find harmony in a spiritual realm. Six tracks performed under the banner of his sixth sense for the blues and his 'inner' sense of time; elements that make Axieme a gem for hearts open to the wild beauty of creativity in its purest form.
Steve Lacy - Soprano saxophone
Recorder in The Church San Francesco, Como, Italy, September 1975.
Tracklisting
Art Pepper
Gato Barbieri
Gato Barbieri
Johnny Dyani
Cedar Walton Trio
Kenny Barron & Buster Williams
Joe Henderson
Enrico Pieranunzi, Michele Polga, Thomas Fonnesbaek & Mauro Beggio
Steve Lacy
Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy/John Heward
Steve Lacy
