The Next Room
An unusual two-CD set of free improvisation: each disc holds one continuous hour-long piece. Tony Buck, Roger Dean and Sandy Evans are sharply different musical personalities, yet the long-form dialogues hold together.
Sandy Evans soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, voice
Roger Dean piano, synthesiser, samples
austraLYSIS performer
The two discs are continuous free improvisations recorded at 2MBS-FM in Sydney on 9 January 1992. Piano, saxophones, percussion and electronics meet in extended dialogues that leave each player room to push against the others.
Artist
austraLYSIS
austraLYSIS works across acoustic free improvisation and live computer interaction, pitting saxophones, piano and percussion against electronics in music that holds tension, risks emotion and never settles into one style.
Tracks
- The Next Room Tony Buck Sandy Evans Roger Dean 62:57
Disc 2
- Solid as an Age Tony Buck Sandy Evans Roger Dean 60:14
Performers
- Tony Buck · percussion, samples, voice
- Sandy Evans · soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, voice
- Roger Dean · piano, synthesiser, samples
- austraLYSIS
Composers
Tony Buck
Tony Buck's percussion, samples and voice push free improvisation into continuous exploration: styles and sonorities stretch and return while the ensemble never releases its grip on tension.
Roger Dean
Roger Dean's piano and computer improvisations move from lucid jazz homage to dense electroacoustic layering, often with austraLYSIS. Sensitive touch meets algorithmic process, blue notes and dance rhythms surviving inside radical sound design.
Sandy Evans
Sandy Evans brings soprano and tenor saxophone into free improvisation, contemporary jazz and intercultural writing where koto, tabla and electronics sit beside the horn. Her lines can turn flute-like, almost vocal, or push hard against the group.
Where to listen
The Next Room is available for streaming through Apple Music. It can also be purchased through the iTunes Music Store.
The Next Room is available as a CD. It can be purchased online through Buywell Music or the Australian Music Centre which both offer online ordering.
Product details
- Catalogue number
- TP050
- Total playing time
- 123 minutes 11 seconds
- Release date
- 23 Nov 1994
- Label
- Tall Poppies
- Musical work
copyright - © 1994 Tall Poppies Records
- Sound recording
copyright - ℗ 1994 Tall Poppies Records
- Category
- Improvisation
- Genre
- Jazz & Improvised
- Barcode
- EAN 9399000005025
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