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All music by Evan Parker (PRS) and Sainkho Namtchylak (AKM)
Recorded live on May 15, 1996 by Paul Hodge @ the ´Music
Gallery´ in Toronto, Canada.
Editing: Dave Bernez
Artwork: René Derouin
Layout/Photos: François Bienvenue
Liner Notes: Art Lange
Produced by Michel Levasseur
© Les Disques Victo
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Wednesday, May 15th, 1996
Having listened to Evan Parker for close on twenty-five
years in a multitude of configurations, there has always
been surprise and challenge in his ever developing music;
the solo especially. (…)
Altough I had heard several Sainkho Namtchylak recordings
on Leo and FMP, I was quite unprepared for the live experience.
Her arsenal of sounds come not as trick singing, but story-like;
at times vague notions of Madame Butterfly enter my thoughts,
another the gurgling dialogue of happy babies; and then
so low and deep in the throat as to create a definite shiver.
When they joined the saxophone and voice together, they
existed in the space between my ears rather than outside
in; filling my brain: Astounding music.
Bill Smith, editor of Coda-Magazine
A field of infinite relationships
It´s a very different sort of world-stitching sound
that you get from MARS SONG, the collaboration between Tuvan
singer Sainkho Namtchylak and British avantgarde icon Evan
Parker. Namtchylak is unique in the wolrd of extended vocalists,
who brings the exotic vocabulary of throat-singing and timbral
manipulation from her Tuvan heritage into the free improvisational
arena. Now living in Europe, Namtchylak has worked with
various musicians from the improv community, to often stunning
effects, as here. Recorded live in Toronto in May of 1996,
just before they both appeared at the new music Victoriaville
Festival, this duet meeting finds them chasing each others´
textures and phrases with wide-open ears and new definitions
of how to use their respective instruments: Namtchylak evokes
reed-like qualities amidst her spectrum of vocal sonorities,
while Parker conjures up eloquent chattering on soprano
and tenor saxes. A happy pairing.
Josef Woodard, in: JazzTimes, 1997
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