E in cantiere per False Walls c'è un bell'omaggio a Evan Parker ad estendere e coronare i festeggiamenti di compleanno: The Heraclitean Two-Step, etc., corposo volume con saggi, interviste, dialoghi, immagini inedite e contributi di John Corbett, Filipe Gomes, Stephen C. Middleton, Martin Davidson e Hans Falb tra gli altri, più quattro cd tratti da concerti in solo tenuti a Warwick e Ramsgate negli ultimi trent'anni. Di nuovo auguri!
CD 1, Unitarian Chapel, Warwick, 1994 and 2023
“Andy Isham organised a concert in the Unitarian Chapel, Warwick on 29 June 1994. As part of a longer concert I played a solo piece on soprano which is the first track on CD 1. It was not long enough to issue on its own and things moved on. Since then I have kept coming back to it because I think it is some of the best solo playing I have ever done. The idea came to me that I should go back to the chapel and see what it was about the space which drew that playing out. As the idea took shape, the saying of Heraclitus about not being able to step in the same river twice started swirling around too. And there it was – I had the title. The “concept”, even – or at least, the conceit…”
CDs 2-4, a sequence of solo recordings made at Arco Barco, Ramsgate, 2018-24
“I was introduced by Matt Wright, the other half of Trance Map, to Filipe Gomes and his Arco Barco studio in Ramsgate on the Kent coast. The studio is located in the upper floors of one of the former chandlers’ work spaces overlooking the harbour. A loft space with control room, a live main room and a smaller, less reverberant room. The acoustic response of the live room and Fil’s passion for sound recording has made Arco Barco my favourite studio and I have recorded there as often as possible.
Over the many visits Fil has tested various microphones and their positioning. The variation means that some recordings are noticeably “dryer” and/or “closer” than others. Much of the thinking was inspired by the work of the late Michael Gerzon and his pioneering ambisonics. What I brought to the occasions was variability in reed behaviour and embouchure and perhaps most importantly my state of mind.”