The Wire (p.60) - "[C]lose listening reveals the same concern for overall architecture that has characterised Parker's solo work for more than 30 years. The tracks are carefully sequenced in terms of both instrumentation and material..."
Personnel: Evan Parker (saxophone, organ).
The music of avant garde saxophonist Evan Parker is not generally known as easy listening, and though his recordings for ECM may have tended toward the atmospheric, 2006's TIME LAPSE, released on Tzadik, finds Parker returning to challenging form. There are 11 original compositions here, and Parker's sax is the only instrument on most (though he makes ample use of multi-tracking ). Parker can be ruminative at times, and at others full of gutsy, exploratory fire, giving fans familiar with this contemporary avant icon's wild, mercurial sound much to appreciate.