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Steve Lacy, Steve Potts – Tips

Steve Lacy, Steve Potts

Tips

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2015 release. A reissue of Steve Lacy and Steve Potts's Tips, originally released on Hat Hut Records in 1981. Soprano saxophonist Lacy wrote the suite of tunes for Tips to feature the aphorisms of painter Georges Braque, as sung by Irene Aebi. Together with his right-hand-man, alto saxophonist Potts, he and Aebi recorded these 14 anthemic tracks in Paris in 1979, and the young hat Hut Records label issued them on a now-rare LP. The music allowed Lacy to extend and deepen his longstanding interest in setting text to music, and at the same time it provided a perfect context for extrapolated duets with Potts, whose dedication to Lacy over twenty years of collaboration somewhat overshadowed his own creative output. This CD is the first release of Lacy's full Hat Hut Records oeuvre, mastered from the original tapes. Personnel: Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone; Steve Potts - alto saxophone; Irene Aebi - voice. Music by Steve Lacy; text by George Braque. Recorded in Paris, December 14, 1979. Remastered at Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago, January 2015; Reissue produced by John Corbett.

Details
Cat. number: CvsD 018CD
Year: 2015

Release notes

Reissue of hat Hut TWENTY (1R20)

Tracklist
1A - We Will Never Have Any Peace - The Present Is Perpetual
2B - Do Not Imitate What You Wish To Create
3C - I Want To Be In Tune With Nature Rather Than Copy It
4D - I Don't Do As I'd Like, I Do As I Can
5E - Art Is Made To Trouble, Science Reassures
6F - The Only Thing Valuable In Art, Is What Cannot Be Explained
7G - One Must Achieve A Certain Temperature That Makes Things Malleable
8H - Limited Means Lead To New Forms, Invite Creation, Make Style
9I - Impregnation, Obsession, Hallucination
10J - It's The Change Happening That Reveals To Us, Day To Day Existance
11K - Echo Answers Echo, All Is Repercussion
12 L - For Every Gain There Is A Corresponding Loss - That Is The Law Of Compensation
13M - Progress In Art Is Not About Extending It's Limits, But In Better Understanding Them
14N - With Age, Art And Life Become One
Credits
Steve Potts
Alto Saxophone
Jef Gilson
Recorded By
Steve Lacy
Soprano Saxophone
Irene Aebi
Voice