If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances. Evan Parker Read Quote
There are many of these apparent philosophical paradoxes or contradictions which don’t concern me anymore. Evan Parker Read Quote
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction… Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language. Evan Parker Read Quote
But I think the record will actually come from tapes that are not yet recorded. Evan Parker Read Quote
I think the voice does that perfectly adequately without being imitated by other instruments. Evan Parker Read Quote
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me. Evan Parker Read Quote
It’s not like, I don’t know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market. Evan Parker Read Quote
The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span. Evan Parker Read Quote
So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it’s a very pivotal moment that is documented there. Evan Parker Read Quote
