Potlatch

Potlatch* is an independent French label working with significant performers of freely improvised music. The musicians lending their significant talents to Potlatch include such luminaries as Derek Bailey, Steve Lacy, Fred van Hove, Evan Parker, Keith Rowe, Hans Tammen, Denman Maroney, Carlos Zingaro, Daunik Lazro, Joëlle Léandre, and Michel Doneda.

We don't determine music,
The music determines us;
We only follow it
To the end of our life:
Then it goes on without us.
It begs to be born and,
Wants to go its own way,
We just make it up and,
Then we let it out.
Music speaks for itself,
And needs no explanation
Or justification:
Either it is alive,or it is not.

Saxovision © Steve Lacy
used with permission (stevelacymusic.org)

*"an old custom" (in indian tribes) studied by the famous anthropologist Marcel Mauss (who published L'Essai sur le Don in 1925).

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