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John Butcher - Mark Sanders: Daylight
by AAJ Italy Staff
Potrebbe essere la recensione più breve del West. Viscerali e “avanti" davvero quanto basta, John Butcher e Mark Sanders, vecchi compagni d'armi sin dai tempi delle comuni collaborazioni con quel genio di Steve Beresford (del resto si erano incontrati a casa di Derek Bailey), tirano fuori dal cappello degli amici della Emanem, un piccolo compendio di free sul serio avanti, per la gioia di quei pochi che guardano alla musica improvvisata come alla classica ancora di salvezza. Daylight raccoglie la ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher / Gino Robair: Apophenia
by John Eyles
The partnership of John Butcher and Gino Robair dates back to 1997, their first joint release appearing soon after. It is some years since they released their last duo recording-- New Oakland Burr (Rastascan, 2004)--but Robair was part of Butcher's seven-piece group, which recorded somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax, 2009) at the Huddersfield Festival in 2008. Now comes Apophenia, a radio recording originating from KFJC, California, in October 2009. That source may explain its relative brevity--it just tops twenty-eight minutes. It ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher: duos with piano and harp
by John Eyles
Although his first release, Fonetiks (Bead, 1984), was a duo with pianist Chris Burn, in saxophonist John Butcher's large discography, duos are comparatively scarce. The majority are with drummers such as Gerry Hemingway, Paal Nilssen-Love, Eddie Prevost, Gino Robair, Mark Sanders and Dylan van der Schyff. Other notable partners include pianist Steve Beresford, bassist John Edwards, Toshimaru Nakamura on no-input mixing board, Phil Durrant on electronics and vocalists Phil Minton and Vanessa Mackness.
All his duos demonstrate the saxophonist's creativity ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher: Invisible Ear
by John Eyles
It is a pleasure to welcome John Butcher's Invisible Ear back into circulation on his own label. Originally released in 2003 as a limited edition on the Italian label Fringes, it has long been unavailable. For Butcher aficionados or followers of improvised saxophone, the album makes essential listening. Butcher has long been an intrepid explorer of his saxophones, and Invisible Ear is one of his more remarkable sets of explorations as he experiments with close miking, multi-tracking and feedback saxophone. ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher & Mark Sanders / Alex Ward & Roger Turner / John Tchicai & Tony Marsh: Treader Duos
by John Eyles
These three contrasting reeds/drums duos are a fine record of the concert at which they were recorded, in February 2008 at St Giles-in-the-Fields church, London. Each of the three tracks lasts about twenty five minutes, long enough for the duos to give a good account of themselves. The three tracks give an opportunity to hear some fine improvisers as well as to compare their differing approaches to the combination of reeds and drums.
The album opens with John Butcher and ...
Continue ReadingLondon Broil: John Butcher at The Stone, NYC
by Gordon Marshall
John Butcher The Stone East Village, Manhattan New York, New York November 14, 2009
On a sheer sonic level, John Butcher goes further into his instrument--and further out of it--than any of his monumental precursors in the iconoclast tradition of abstract British improvising. Not that he's going to bury such icons as Terry Day, Trevor Watts, or Evan Parker; but as he demonstrated in solo performance last week at ...
Continue ReadingAMM with John Butcher: Trinity
by Nic Jones
The amorphous unit that is AMM has been refining--and indeed redefining--a sound for as long as it's been in existence, and there's no reason to believe that the process this implies is likely to ever stop evolving. This does of course render John Butcher's presence here as perhaps anomalous, but there are no musical reasons to believe that this was the case in reality. The resulting trio--indeed the Trinity--of Butcher on tenor and soprano saxophones, pianist John Tilbury and percussionist ...
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