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Barker / Parker / Irabagon: Bakunawa [VINYL] (Out Of Your Head Records)

New York creative scene stalwarts drummer Andrew Barker, bassist William Parker, and saxophonist Jon Irabagon debut as a trio, delivering five collectively improvised explorations that emphasize call-and-response dynamics, weaving and reacting with technically impressive, extended, and unconventional techniques and expressions delivered with confident assertion.
 

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Personnel:



Andrew Barker-drums, percussion

William Parker-bass, b flat pocket tuba, gralla

Jon Irabagon-tenor saxophone, sopranino saxophone


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Limited edition of 500 on black vinyl.

Label: Out Of Your Head Records
Catalog ID: OOYH 030
Squidco Product Code: 35533

Format: LP
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Vinyl LP
Recorded by Andrew Barker January 3rd, 2022 at Phantom Ear Studio, Brooklyn, NY. Mixed by Andrew Barker.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Bakunawa is an album by three important players on the creative New York scene: drummer Andrew Barker, bassist William Parker and saxophonist Jon Irabagon. All three have performed together in different configurations, but this is their first album as a trio.

William Parker and his wife, Patricia Nicholson organise the annual Vision Festival, which keeps alive the approach to free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman; Parker is very active in New York. Jon Irabagon is an extremely versatile player, equally at home in straight ahead and free situations; he is a Filipino American, won the Thelonious Monk Jazz Competition in 2008 and received a Philippine Presidential Award in 2014. Andrew Barker leads his own free jazz groups as well as performing with key members of New York's creative scene.

The music here is freely improvised, led by Irabagon on either tenor or sopranino saxophone over Parker and Barker's strong pulse and only occasionally breaking down into individual solos. It is a very good example of a key feature of free jazz, that is call and response interaction between the players based on close listening. This feature is apparent on the title track and "Was One", both dominated by Irabagon's tenor. On "Bakunawa" Irabagon makes extensive use of extended techniques and a wide range of tonality which can become rather irritating; by contrast, on Was One he integrates these unorthodox methods with a more tonal approach that feels more comfortable.

On "Morgan Avenue Second Line" Parker plays pocket tuba and Irabagon plays sopranino saxophone initially, before switching to tenor; the different sounds of these instruments create some interesting textures. Irabagon also begins "For Goya", on sopranino while Parker plays the gralla, a double reed instrument from Catalunya. The call and response between the two also creates a unique and attractive sound. Irabagon is particularly effective on "Fly Anew" which begins in a more contemplative mood with a duet between tenor sax and double bass; Irabagon plays a haunting and moving solo that gradually builds in energy when the drums enter after two plus minutes.

The album brings out the versatility of the three musicians and provides a very listenable example of free jazz."-Tony Dudley-Evans, UK Jazz News


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Artist Biographies

"Andrew Barker is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. Barker is co-founder of the free jazz and improvised music ensemble Gold Sparkle Band from Atlanta, Georgia from 1994 to present. After moving to Brooklyn, NY in 1998, Andrew became the drummer in William Parker's Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra (appearing on Mayor of Punkville, Raincoat in the River, Spontaneous, and For Percy Heath). Since then he has appeared on many recordings with musicians such as Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Chris Jonas, Rob Brown, Sonny Simmons, Assif Tsahar, Virginia Genta, Ed Ricart, Roy Campbell, and many others. Barker has performed with many musicians in New York City and beyond including Butch Morris, Thurston Moore, Steve Swell, Herb Robertson, John Zorn, Marshall Allen, Sirone, and Paul Dunmall.

Barker leads the psychedelic free jazz unit Acid Birds (with Jaime Fennelly of Mind Over Mirrors and Charles Waters of GSB), and the heavy improv unit, Barker Trio (with Michael Foster and Tim Dahl)."

-Jazz Right Now (https://jazzrightnow.com/artist-page-practice/barker-andrew/)
11/20/2024

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"William Parker is a bassist, improviser, composer, writer, and educator from New York City, heralded by The Village Voice as, "the most consistently brilliant free jazz bassist of all time."

In addition to recording over 150 albums, he has published six books and taught and mentored hundreds of young musicians and artists.

Parker's current bands include the Little Huey Creative Music Orchestra, In Order to Survive, Raining on the Moon, Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind, and the Cosmic Mountain Quartet with Hamid Drake, Kidd Jordan, and Cooper-Moore. Throughout his career he has performed with Cecil Taylor, Don Cherry, Milford Graves, and David S. Ware, among others."

-William Parker Website (http://www.williamparker.net/)
11/20/2024

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"The winner of the 2008 Thelonious Monk Saxophone Competition, Irabagon has since topped both the Rising Star Alto Saxophone and the Rising Star Tenor Saxophone categories in the DownBeat Magazine Critics' Poll and been named one of Time Out New York's 25 New York City Jazz Icons. Jon was also named 2012 Musician of the Year in The New York City Jazz Record and is an integral member of such high-profile ensembles as the Mary Halvorson Quintet, the Dave Douglas Quintet and Barry Altschul's 3Dom Factor, as well as an established bandleader in his own right.

For Perpetual Motion, a project of Moondog arrangements, Jon (along with French saxophonist/clarinetist/composer Sylvain Rifflet) has been awarded a French-American Cultural Exchange grant from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, with generous funding from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Florence Gould Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Institut Français, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, and Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs de Musique ("SACEM"). In addition, Jon has received a 2012 Mabuhay Award by the National Association of Filipino-Americans and a 2014 Philippine Presidential Award.

Jon's own record label, Irabbagast Records, has currently released five of his efforts, including I Don't Hear Nothin' but the Blues Volume 2: Appalachian Haze (with Mike Pride and Mick Barr), Outright! Unhinged (with Ralph Alessi, Jacob Sacks, John Hebert and Tom Rainey) and It Takes All Kinds (featuring Mark Helias and Barry Altschul), and most recently, the dual release of Behind the Sky (featuring Tom Harrell, Luis Perdomo, Yasushi Nakamura and Rudy Royston) as well as Jon's first solo saxophone recording, Inaction is an Action."

-Jon Irabagon Website (http://www.jonirabagon.com/bio/)
11/20/2024

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Track Listing:



Side A:



1. Bakunawa 14:17

2. Morgan Avenue Second Line 7:09



Side B:



1. Fly Anew 8:46

2. For Goya 9:52

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