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Andrea Parkins: Slippage

Read "Slippage" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Multi-Instrumentalist/composer Andrea Parkins plays a significant role within the adventurous, often cutting edge New York City Downtown scene. Here, along with fellow New York Downtown constituents, Kenny Wolleson (d) and Briggan Krauss (saxophones), Parkins continues her unique conceptual approaches with the follow up to her previous Knitting Factory release “Cast Iron Fact”.

On “Slippage”, Parkins pays a bit more attention to compositional and thematic development in contrast to “Cast Iron Fact” which dealt more with “free” improvisation and placed more ...

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Recording

Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins & Jim Black: One Great Day... on Hatology

Ellery Eskelin, Andrea Parkins & Jim Black: One Great Day... on Hatology

Source: Werner Uehlinger

In some ways I think that a recording is the best medium for this music. I can think of a lot of music that speaks better on a recording than it does in a club where the environment and the audience's expectations exert an effect on the music. With this recording we've found a mix between the two. Writing music for this band has been a real break through for me. Andrea and Jim have ears for anything I put ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

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Knitting Factory Works
2007

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Slippage

Knitting Factory
1999

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Cast Iron Fact

Knitting Factory Works
1996

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