The Moment's Energy

The Moment's Energy
The Moment's Energy
Live album by Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble
Released	2009
Recorded	November 2007
Venue	Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, England
Genre	Jazz
Length	66:55
Label	ECM
Producer	Steve Lake
Evan Parker chronology

The Moment's Energy is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor Evan Parker's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded at the Lawrence Batley Theatre in 2007 and released on the ECM label.^[1]

Reception[]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
All About Jazz	^[3]
The Guardian	^[4]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "this work is more modern composition than merely free or experimental jazz. This is a gorgeous work when taken as a whole, a musical journey through multi-dimensional landscapes and sonic shadows that seems to stretch time itself."^[2]

On All About Jazz John Kelman called it "an album where there's both greater density and delineation, an even broader dynamic scope and, quite simply, one of the most ambitious mixtures of form and freedom, and extant and new-found textures" and "A composition that could never be performed the same way twice, its careful construction of sound in real-time and post-production makes for an ambitiously considered experience of great power and unsettling subtlety".^[3]

The Guardian's John Fordam observed "Different combinations of players come to the fore in each piece, which imparts variety to these abstract soundscapes"^[4]

The Penguin Jazz Guide called it "a composed piece for improvising ensemble that delivered a work of unparalleled sophistication and presence" noting "the sound-world of the piece is determined to a broad extent by the individual performers, but it is Parker's imagination - capricious responsive but in no way totalizing - that makes the piece so successful ... Though some may cite the ensemble's transatlantic collaboration with Roscoe Mitchell as a greater achievement, this remarkable collaborative work is its masterpiece"^[5]

Track listing[]

All compositions by Evan Parker

"The Moment's Energy I" - 9:29
"The Moment's Energy II" - 9:45
"The Moment's Energy III" - 9:34
"The Moment's Energy IV" - 4:19
"The Moment's Energy V" - 9:23
"The Moment's Energy VI" - 8:11
"The Moment's Energy VII" - 11:14
"Incandescent Clouds" - 5:05

Personnel[]

Evan Parker - soprano saxophone
Peter Evans - trumpet, piccolo trumpet
Ko Ishikawa - shō
Ned Rothenberg - clarinet, bass clarinet, shakuhachi
Philipp Wachsmann - violin, live electronics
- piano, prepared piano
Barry Guy - double bass
Paul Lytton - percussion, live electronics
Lawrence Casserley - signal processing instrument
- sample and signal processing
- computer processing
Richard Barrett - live electronics
- live electronics
- sound projection

References[]

^ ECM discography accessed November 18, 2011
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 18, 2011
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Kelman, J. All About Jazz Review, accessed November 28, 2019
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, accessed November 28, 2019
^ Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 728. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.

[ECM_discography-1] ECM discography accessed November 18, 2011

[Allmusic-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b Jurek, T. Allmusic Review accessed November 18, 2011

[AAJ-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b Kelman, J. All About Jazz Review, accessed November 28, 2019

[Guardian-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b Fordham, J. The Guardian Review, accessed November 28, 2019

[10th_ed-5] Morton, Brian; Richard Cook (2010) [1992]. The Penguin Jazz Guide: The History of the Music in the 1001 Best Albums. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (10th ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 728. ISBN 978-0-14-104831-4.

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