via Burning Ambulance's Phil Freeman:
The Topography Of The Lungs (with Evan Parker and Han Bennink)
Derek Bailey & Han Bennink (duo with Bennink)
Daedal (duo with Susie Ibarra)
Ore (duo with Eddie Prévost)
Topographie Parisienne (Dunois, April 3d, 1981) (with Parker and Bennink)
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Freeman on Ore:
"The album is a duo recorded with drummer Eddie Prévost of the British improv trio AMM. Bailey says of the drummer, 'We both kind of, I suppose, are pursuing the same thing by different means. So it was really very nice — the level of exploratoriness was quite high in it. It’s not always easy to get that.'
Ore is a fascinating, starkly beautiful record. Bailey’s guitar sounds at some points like it’s being ground into splinters. Other times, it sounds like a giant sheet of metal being torn apart by robot hands. Prévost plays the drums as though he’s only recently discovered them and doesn’t want to make any sudden moves for fear of an unexpected, unpredictable catastrophe. (This is a far cry from Bailey’s work with Han Bennink, a Dutch drummer who often seems to bear his kit some indescribable, unforgivable grudge.) Bailey and Prévost move around one another in wide, sweeping arcs throughout the disc’s 50-plus minutes, never jelling into anything that resembles traditional collective music making. At the same time they create a space between what they’re doing as individuals, and in that space is a vibrating hunk of pure, glowing beauty. This, it seems, is exactly what Bailey seeks from a partner."