Ghost in the Machine

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This 1993 date featured British saxophone and improvisation god Evan Parker with Copenhagen's Ghost-in-the-Machine trio and Martin Klapper on electronics. This traditional quartet -- saxophones, bass, drums, and piano -- added Klapper to extend the sonic possibilities of all the instruments, which were amplified by microphones, in order to create a further abstraction. The results are studies in texture, atmospherics, and sonic construction rather than spontaneous composition. They hold the listener's interest simply because there is no way to predict what direction any particular passage, let alone entire piece, will take. There are 12 selections here, and all of them are draped in atonal mystery, full of a kind of private language that can be frustrating to find one's self inside of initially. This quintet was making music for its own edification, for its own sense of investigation and discovery. The more outside a work's context the listener is placed in, the deeper one is required to listen to find a common bridge to the recording's sonic language. Since one has to work hard at listening, the results are all the more satisfying -- they are purposeful. If the question "why should I have to work so hard listening to a record," arises, the point inherent in its answer has already been missed. ~ Thom Jurek