One long trio improvisation recorded in concert in March of 2008. Surely most will know what to expect from Parker and Prevost at this stage, which leaves the guitar and prepared piano of John Coxon as the unknown foil and prod. The combination does yield some interesting results, especially as Coxon switches quickly and seamlessly between his instruments. The surprise quotient is set high. His approaches to the guitar runs the gamut from bent koto-esque plucking to down-tuned bass notes and much prickly scrabbling. At times he backs up an idea (as in a lovely section of slow sax with nice clear harmonics early on), and at others he leaps to the front and pulls his partners along, using his wide pallet to try and inspire.
Prevost sticks mostly to bowed metals, his current modus it seems, and makes them work well in this context, often conjuring surprising textures or just laying out completely until an opening presents itself. There's quite a bit of, not so much filling in the cracks as placing small bits in them, and occasional incongruities work to punctuate the whole structure. Odd jazzy guitar chords stop time and then realign into buzzing drones. Coxon often works on an idea for a short time and then, instead of developing it, he'll smash it and try to reassemble the debris, which works quite well, and offers a different approach to improvising, at times a more "punk" attitude. Nimble as ever Parker never seems to be thrown for a loop or handed a situation he can't do something with.
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