''The Eleventh Hour'' is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "There is a lot going on as violin, soprano saxophone, percussion, and piano all fall together, but as the sounds are treated and added to electronically, they have an air of space and separation that creates an immense space for the listener".Jurek, T.
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'' wrote: "''Eleventh Hour'' is a dark and foreboding work, packed with black energy... It's an astonishingly powerful record, and a perfect development to the language of this essential group." Writing for

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, John Kelman commented: "While ''The Eleventh Hour'' is not an album for listeners tied to conventional musical approaches, it remains striking and strangely compelling, if for no other reason than it demonstrates just how far the creative mind can expand even well-established concepts into completely new territory." In a separate AAJ review, Chris May remarked: "It's not pure jazz, it's not pure electronica, and it's not pure conservatoire music either. It's something else again: fresh, vigorous, and very, very beautiful." In a review for Clocks and Clouds, Beppe Colli stated: "With its excellent recorded sound, ''The Eleventh Hour'' could maybe in time reveal itself to be the best album that the ensemble has recorded to date."

Track listing

:''All compositions by Evan Parker except as indicated'' # "Shadow Play" (Lawrence Casserley, Evan Parker, Walter Prati, Joel Ryan) - 17:29 # "The Eleventh Hour Part 1" - 12:52 # "The Eleventh Hour Part 2" - 9:33 # "The Eleventh Hour Part 3" - 12:03 # "The Eleventh Hour Part 4" - 15:33 # "The Eleventh Hour Part 5" - 5:28 :*Recorded live at the Centre For Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, in November 2004.

Personnel

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a higher-register variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument invented in the 1840s. The soprano is the third-smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists (from smallest to largest) of the soprillo, sop ...

voice The human voice consists of sound made by a human being using the vocal tract, including talking, singing, laughing, crying, screaming, shouting, humming or yelling. The human voice frequency is specifically a part of human sound production in ...

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 regular ...

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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. Exc ...

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piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

prepared piano A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage's dance music for ''Bacchanale' ...

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double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

Lawrence Casserley Lawrence Casserley (born August 10, 1941 in Little Easton, Essex, England) is a composer, conductor and performer, to real time electro-acoustic music. Lawrence Casserley was professor of electro-acoustic music at the Royal College of Music in Lon ...

- signal processing instrument, percussion, voice *

Joel Ryan Joel or Yoel is a name meaning "Yahweh Is God" and may refer to: * Joel (given name), origin of the name including a list of people with the first name. * Joel (surname), a surname * Joel (footballer, born 1904), Joel de Oliveira Monteiro, Brazili ...

- sample and signal processing * Walter Prati - computer processing * Richard Barrett - sampling keyboard, live electronics *

Paul Obermayer Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) * Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...

- sampling keyboard, live electronics * Marco Vecchi - sound projection

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eleventh Hour ECM Records live albums Evan Parker live albums 2004 albums