Steve Lacy

• DIGIPACK EDITION

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.

PERSONNEL:

• Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone
• Steve Potts - alto saxophone
• Irene Aebi - voice

Recorded in Paris, December 14, 1979.

TRACKS:

• 01. A - We Will Never Have Any Peace - The Present Is Perpetual
• 02. B - Do Not Imitate What You Wish To Create
• 03. C - I Want To Be In Tune With Nature Rather Then Copy It
• 04. D - I Don't Do As I Like, I Do As I Can
• 05. E - Art Is Made To Trouble, Science Reassures
• 06. F - The Only Thing Valueable In Art, Is What Cannot Be Explained
• 07. G - One Must Achieve A Certain Temperature That Makes Things Malleable
• 08. H - Limited Means Lead To New Forms, Invite Creation, Make Style
• 09. I - Impregnation, Obsession, Hallucination
• 10. J - It's The Change HappeningThat Reveals To Us, Day To Day Exsistance
• 11. K - Echo Answers Echo, All Is Repercussion
• 12. L - For Every Gain There Is A Corresponding Loss - That Is The Law Of Compensation
• 13. M - Progress In Art Is Not About Extending Its Limits, But In Better Understanding Them
• 14. N - With Age, Art And Life Become One