Drawn Inward is an album by British saxophonist and improvisor Evan Parker

Evan Parker

Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...

's Electro-Acoustic Ensemble recorded in 1998 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic 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".

Track listing

All compositions by Evan Parker except as indicated

1. "The Crooner (For Johnny Hartman)" (Evan Parker, Philipp Wachsmann) - 9:13
2. "Serpent in Sky" - 7:30
3. "Travel in the Homeland" (Paul Lytton) - 7:58
4. "Spouting Bowl" (Lawrence Casserley
   Lawrence Casserley
   Lawrence Casserley is a composer, conductor and performer, to real time electro-acoustic music...
   
   ) - 2:56
5. "Collect Calls (Milano-Kingston) (Bugged)" (Parker, Walter Prati) - 10:38
6. "Aka Lotan" (Parker, Wachsmann) - 4:24
7. "Reanascreena" (Barry Guy) - 5:43
8. "At Home in the Universe (For Stuart Kauffman)" - 3:20
9. "Writing on Ice" (Wachsmann) - 3:43
10. "Phloy in the Frame" (Parker, Lytton) - 3:49
11. "DrawnInward" - 5:59
    • Recorded at Gateway Studios in Kingston in December 1998.

Personnel

• Evan Parker
  Evan Parker
  Evan Shaw Parker is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.Recording and performing prolifically with many collaborators, Parker was a pivotal figure in the development of European free jazz and free improvisation, and has pioneered or substantially expanded...
  
   - tenor saxophone
  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, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  , soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
  The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
  
  , khene
  Khene
  The khene is a mouth organ of Lao origin whose pipes, which are usually made of bamboo, are connected with a small, hollowed-out hardwood reservoir into which air is blown, creating a sound similar to that of the violin...
  
  
• Barry Guy
  Barry Guy
  Barry John Guy is a British 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 in the UK and Europe...
  
   - double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Paul Lytton
  Paul Lytton
  Paul Lytton is an English free jazz 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 experimenting with free improvisational music, working in a duo with saxophonist Evan Parker. After...
  
   - percussion, live-electronics
• Philipp Wachsmann - violin
  Violin
  The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
  
  , viola
  Viola
  The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
  
  , live electronics, sound processing
• Walter Prati - live electronics, sound processing
• Marco Vecchi - live electronics, sound processing