The Music Improvisation Company

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Release Date: 21st Jul 2023
Catalogue No: 5821746
Label: ECM
Length: 46 minutes

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir, Christine Jeffrey: Third Stream Boogaloo

Work length2:45

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion), Christine Jeffrey (voice)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir: Dragon Path

Work length10:25

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir: Packaged Eel

Work length8:44

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir: Untitled No. I

Work length7:06

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir, Christine Jeffrey: Untitled No. II

Work length7:33

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion), Christine Jeffrey (voice)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir: Tuck

Work length3:08

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Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Hugh Davies, Jamie Muir: Wolfgang van Gangbang

Work length6:56

$2.05

Derek Bailey (electric guitar), Evan Parker (soprano saxophone), Jamie Muir (percussion)
Recorded: 1970-08-27
Recording Venue: Merstham Studios, London

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The Music Improvisation Company documents the coming together of some of Britain’s most adventurous improvisers – guitar experimentalist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Evan Parker, electronics-man Hugh Davies and percussionist Jamie Muir –, combining their multiple-idioms spanning reach in a fiery display of collective musicianship. Here shape, texture and oblique dissonant constructions operate on equal terms.

ECM Records continues its series of Hi-Res reissues from its early analog era. This summer’s batch of digitalized Hi-Res releases includes seminal albums by Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Thomasz Stanko, Jack DeJohnette, Eberhard Weber, Paul Motian, Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti and many more. As with all Hi-Res releases from ECM’s vast catalogue to date, the underlying premise in digitizing the analogue tapes is not to change the sound of the recordings, but to realize them in their original form, in the most detailed and best possible quality.

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In the capable hands of mastering engineer Christoph Stickel, the process begins with the original, analogue stereo master tapes. The masters are in excellent condition and can be played without problems. All tapes are played by a Studer A820, which is meticulously calibrated to the respective tape. The analog signal is then digitized in 96kHz/24-bit, which covers the complete spectrum of the original tapes. In each case, a decision is made between a PrismSound ADA-8XR, an Antelope Eclipse Mastering AD, and a Mytek Brooklyn ADC, depending on which one is suited best for the respective recording. No de-noising and no other restoration affecting the sound is applied.”

The Music Improvisation Company

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