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In free improv circles, the acrimonious split between Evan Parker (sax) and Derek Bailey (guitar) carries as much weight as the Beatles bust-up does in rock. Pretty much the founding fathers of a strand of European improvisational music, blending post-serialist austerity with dada gymnastics, Parker and Bailey mixed-up something as impossible, mad and dazzling as a bag of spiders at a snake-charming contest. In the late sixties and early seventies, this was the underground beneath the underground - a sound which stood up and questioned what listening, playing and music itself actually was. It’s never been entirely clear why they .

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