(Free Jazz, Free Improvisation) Steve Lacy - Outings - 1991, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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REM GENRE Jazz
REM DATE 1991
REM DISCID 0B099702
REM COMMENT "ExactAudioCopy v1.0b3"
PERFORMER "Steve Lacy"
TITLE "Outings"
FILE "01 - Labyrinth.wav" WAVE
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    TITLE "Labyrinth"
    PERFORMER "Steve Lacy"
    PREGAP 00:00:33
    INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE "02 - Island.wav" WAVE
  TRACK 02 AUDIO
    TITLE "Island"
    PERFORMER "Steve Lacy"
    INDEX 01 00:00:00

In preparing for ISMEZ, of a research project on the Mediterranean musical archetypes that also provided for the production of relevant original compositions by contemporary musicians, it was easy to think of Steve Lacy as the ideal musicians…a musician to whom one could entrust the ancient achetype of the Labyrinth. In all of Lacy’s work in fact, one can perceive something that looks like a geometry of the Arcanum: his soprano sax("divine, perverse instrument, not yet quite determined", as he once said to me in an interview) has always expressed a "reasoning spirituality", a music that appears at the same time visionary like an oracle and convincing like a science.

Though soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy recorded many volumes of solo music, on only a handful did he use overdubbing and rarely to the extent of this obscure album recorded in Italy in 1986. Sponsored by the official Italian radio station, RAI, and apparently intended as the first of a series of radio broadcasts called Sounding Islands, Outings consists of two lengthy pieces very much in the inimitable Lacy style: clean, almost singsongy themes that gradually expand, fracture, and wend their way into unexpected and beautiful territory. The first piece, "Labyrinth," dedicated to the painter Giorgio de Chirico, overdubs three saxophones at the beginning and end but is otherwise given over to a "standard" solo performance with Lacy keeping to the lower ranges of his instrument and eschewing any shrillness or abrasiveness. "Islands" opens with a sextet of overdubbed soprano saxes playing a repeating, minimalist theme in the foreground with plaintive moans in the rear (reminiscent of some work by the duo of Anthony Braxton and Richard Teitelbaum) before reverting to a duo format, here recorded with substantial room ambience. The reverberations of the soprano and the generally mournful tones provide a fine, melancholy aura.
In fact, this selection features some of the calmest, almost pastoral playing that one is likely to hear from Lacy until some squeaks and multi-phonics set in during the final third of the piece. If lucky enough to find a copy, Outings is a worthwhile addition to the Lacy catalog and should be of substantial interest to the serious Lacy collector.

Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone overdubbed