The Topography of the Lungs

2023 repress of the OTOROKU re-issue of the legendary English free improvisation LP ‘The Topography of The Lungs’ by Evan Parker, Derek Bailey and Han Bennink. This was Evan Parker’s first recording as a “leader” and was the first release on Incus, the label Parker founded with guitarist Derek Bailey and drummer Tony Oxley
This re-issue has been produced from an original vinyl pressing from Evan’s archives – carefully transcribed and restored by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx in Berlin and features the original liner notes from Parker along with updated notes penned in 2014
“To talk further of the music we play is difficult. It’s criteria for success exist, but are elusive and indefinable beyond the intuitive level. We operate without rules (pre-composed material) or well-defined code of behaviour (fixed tempi, tonalities, serial structures etc.), and yet are able to distinguish success from failure.” – From Evan Parker’s original liner notes (1970)