''Drawn Inward'' is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor

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's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography
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review by Steve Loewy awarded the album 4 stars stating "Evan Parker has performed in so many contexts, but he seems to have hit a particular stride with his Electro-Acoustic Ensemble, a strange combination of saxophones, strings, and electronics. What makes this so exceedingly attractive is the continuous wonder that permeates throughout... Parker fans that have not heard this group before may be surprised at the results. Although the saxophonist embraces his now well-known advanced techniques, they are clearly subordinate to the project. At times there is a busy intensity to it all, at others a serene quality. Highly complex strokes for an increasingly intricate society, perhaps, where moods change and so do their contexts. Don't file under easy listening". The authors of the ''

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'' wrote: "this is very much a collaborative project and not just an Evan Parker project. Wachsmann and Guy are absolutely central to the multi-dimensional harmonic language, while Lytton's percussion is ever more subtly dramatic." Writing for

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, Glenn Astarita commented: "On many occasions, the musicians invoke the sensation of performing on some sort of imaginary plane as the music stretches outward or conveys a truly expansive landscape that seems infinite or unending... here are no preordained ground rules as the exhaustive intercommunication, inexplicable themes and unique phraseology should supply enough data or stimulus to keep us pondering for a good 65 minutes or so..."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Evan Parker except as indicated'' # "The Crooner (For Johnny Hartman)" (Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann) - 9:13 # "Serpent in Sky" - 7:30 # "Travel in the Homeland" (Paul Lytton) - 7:58 # "Spouting Bowl" (

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) - 2:56 # "Collect Calls (Milano-Kingston) (Bugged)" (Parker, Walter Prati) - 10:38 # "Aka Lotan" (Parker, Wachsmann) - 4:24 # "Reanascreena" (Barry Guy) - 5:43 # "At Home in the Universe (For Stuart Kauffman)" - 3:20 # "Writing on Ice" (Wachsmann) - 3:43 # "Phloy in the Frame" (Parker, Lytton) - 3:49 # "DrawnInward" - 5:59 **Recorded at Gateway Studios in Kingston in December 1998.

Personnel

tenor saxophone The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

, soprano saxophone,

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Barry Guy Barry John Guy (born 22 April 1947, in London) is an English composer and double bass player. His range of interests encompasses early music, contemporary composition, jazz and improvisation, and he has worked with a wide variety of orchestras ...

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar i ...

Paul Lytton Paul Lytton (born 8 March 1947, London) is an English free jazz and free improvising percussionist. Lytton began on drums at age 16. He played jazz in London in the late 1960s while taking lessons on the tabla from P.R. Desai. In 1969 he began ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

, live-electronics *

Philipp Wachsmann Philipp John Paul Wachsmann (born 5 August 1944) is an African avant-garde jazz/jazz fusion violinist born in Kampala, Uganda, probably better known for having founded his own group Chamberpot. He has worked with many musicians in the free jazz id ...

violin The violin, sometimes known as a '' fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone ( string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument ( soprano) in the family in regu ...

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, live electronics,

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* Walter Prati - live electronics, sound processing * Marco Vecchi - live electronics, sound processing

References

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