Parker/Lee/Evans: The Bleeidng Edge
Author: Marcus O'Dair O'Dair
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Musicians: |
Okkyung Lee (c) |
Label: |
Psi |
Magazine Review Date: |
March/2012 |
Catalogue Number: |
11.10 |
RecordDate: |
date not stated |
Calling your record The Bleeding Edge comes with certain expectations, but this is no bloodbath. Given the names on the front cover, it isn't even that outré: though ‘Trio 1’ and ‘Trio 3’ work themselves up to quite a climax, and ‘Duo 4’ has its moments, the governing spirit is delicately explorative rather than aggressive or abrasive. Perhaps they were affected by the setting, Whitstable's St Peter's church (meaning not that each member of the trio experienced a simultaneous road to Damascus moment, but that they responded to the nuanced acoustics previously heard, for instance, on Parker's Whitstable Solo album of 2010). The full trio appears on only half the album, the remaining tracks featuring the three possible duo combinations. But though trumpeter, cellist and saxophonist hail respectively from America, Korea and England, the parapsychological communication from which Parker's label takes its name is in evidence throughout.

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