Jazz Articles

like 154

Adam Butler: Schmoozing With The Apr

by Colin Buttimer
December 12, 2003

The first sounds on Adam Butler's solo record Schmoozing are those of a crowd, probably the “après garde" of the title, which is subjected to an alien sawing sound, as though said crowd were being sawn through. A single note is played forcefully on a piano as if in annoyance at the chattering that surrounds it. The piano fills the sonic foreground. More notes twinkling into the upper registers are interrupted by distorted echoes. Down again and then welling upwards. ...