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All Knavery & Collusion

by Evan Parker Quartet

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Beautiful gatefold LP with original artwork by rubber stamp maker 'Nervous' Stephen Fowler. Each image was individually carved from a block of rubber and the prints then added to the artwork. The artwork was inspired by the theme of the album - Daniel Defoe's Diary of a Plague Year - and the images based on 17th century ballad broadside images.

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Knavery & Collusion via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • limited edition compact disc
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    beautifully crafted 6 panel square digipack with original artwork by 'Nervous' Stephen Fowler

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Knavery & Collusion via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Special limited edition numbered gatefold LP with signed postcard
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    50 copies of the album come with a unique post card, signed by Evan, featuring rubber stamp designs by artist Stephen Fowler and each one will be individually stamped with a rubber stamp image creating a unique version of the LP

    Includes unlimited streaming of All Knavery & Collusion via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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about

For many years Evan Parker, one of the greatest post-Coltrane saxophonists, has played a monthly gig at the London club The Vortex. These gigs in part illustrate Evan’s close ties with the fragile ecosystem of clubs that support the jazz world; the small venues that allow an intimate and powerful connection between the artist and audience that is at the heart of jazz creativity. Evan called these events his ‘jazz’ gigs, the knowing hyphenation an indication of the problematic use of the J word, an acceptance of the Vortex as a ‘jazz’ club, and a nod to his origins in jazz history. I took a friend there one time and it seemed to me that the trio’s performance (Evan, John Edwards and the great and sadly departed Tony Marsh) came close to seeing Coltrane or Ayler playing at the 5 Spot or one of the other legendary New York venues. When we asked Evan if he would record an album for Cadillac, it was this aspect of his multifaceted talents that we had in mind. The quartet you hear on this album (with Paul Lytton, John Edwards and Alexander Hawkins) came together for a gig at the Vortex in Evan’s regular slot on June 20th 2019, and what a fine gig it was! Then the next day we relocated to the beautiful barn-like studio of Rimshot, deep in the Kent countryside to record the album. The location, close to Evan’s home, had other resonances which Chris Searle has described in his sleevenote. The subsequent (and over long) process of mastering and producing the album coincided with the first Covid lockdown and the coincidence of Evan and I both reading Defoe's "Journal of the Plague Year", which provided context and some track titles. This put me in mind of Stephen Fowler’s brilliant rubber stamp artwork, and he has created a visual representation that expresses many of the themes of the album.

credits

released April 16, 2021

Evan Parker: saxophones
Alexander Hawkins: piano
John Edwards: bass
Paul Lytton: drums
Recorded June 21 2019 at Rimshot Studios Ltd. T/A Rimshot Productions,
Derowen, Ruins Barn Road, Sittingbourne, Kent ME9 8AA • Engineers: Mike Thorne, Felipe Gomes
Mixed Nov 29 2019 at Arco Barco, Ramsgate <Website www.arcobarco.co.uk/studio>
Mastered for CD by Matthew Wright
Vinyl mastered by Casper Sutton-Jones at Gearbox Records
Sleeve notes by Chris Searle Photography by Caroline Forbes & Mike Gavin
Rubber stamp artwork by Stephen Fowler <Online presence Instagram stephenfowler_rubberstamping>
Design and image editing by David Ilic Produced by Evan Parker & Matthew Wright
Executive producer Mike Gavin

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