PAUL LYTTON Vinyl & CDs

Review: A full LP reissue of Collective Calls, the first duo LP from Evan Parker and percussionist Paul Lytton. Mythically alluded to as "an improvised urban psychodrama in eight parts", Collective Calls makes use of electronics, pre-recordings and homemade instruments to wryly enact self-investigation. Having just recorded the cliff-jumping Music Improvisation Company with Derek Bailey, Christine Jeffrey, Hugh Davies and Jamie Muir, Parker was at the point where [he] was thinking, 'what's the next thing?' On Collective Calls, only the fifth release to appear on the newly-minted Incus label, percussionist Paul Lytton arrives with an arsenal of sound making sources to push Parker into ever new territory.