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Sten Sandell Trio + John Butcher: Strokes
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un mormorio inquieto, soffuso, punteggiato da gocce che sembrano cadere sui piatti della batteria apre questo nuovo disco in cui al trio del pianista Sten Sandell si aggiunge il sassofono di John Butcher. Registrato dal vivo al Blå di Oslo, Strokes si compone di due lunghe improvvisazioni/composizioni collettive cui si aggiunge un breve bis. Le qualità del trio di Sandell - con l'apporto quasi telepatico di Johan Berthling al contrabbasso e di Paal Nilssen-Love alla batteria - sono quelle di ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher: Concentric & Interworks & Architects of the North
by Marc Medwin
John Butcher/Paal Nilssen-Love Concentric Clean Feed 2006 John Butcher/Eddie Prevost Interworks Matchless 2005 Polwechsel Archives Of The North Hatology 2006
To define saxophonist John Butcher's sound, or style, or vocabulary, is equivalent to attempting to describe a product of nature in every detail. ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher / Christof Kurzmann: The Big Misunderstanding Between Hertz And Megahertz
by Mark Corroto
If industry and our modern industrial climate has created what sociologists call the “modern primitive, then British saxophonist John Butcher is certainly one of today's original men. His saxophone style has unique originality, that's for sure. It is as if he could have picked up a bicycle or a carp and proceeded to use them to communicate with us. It just so happens that he plays the saxophone.
Like his frequent partner Axel Dörner (trumpet), Butcher tends to ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher / Phil Durrant / Paul Lovens / Radu Malfattii / John Russell: News From The Shed
by John Eyles
This welcome CD reissue of the original News From The Shed (released on vinyl on John Butcher's Acta label in 1989) features four previously unissued tracks. Long regarded as one of the finest examples of group free improvisation, the album's reputation has grown steadily. The quintet grew out of the existing trio of Butcher, Durrant and Russell. When Malfatti and Lovens joined them as guests for a short UK tour, it was soon clear that this was not a trio-plus-guests ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher
by John Eyles
This interview was originally published in London Calling in September 2002. Here it is reproduced in full.
On one of the hottest days of an indifferent London summer, I was one of about 20 people who sweltered in the basement of 323 in Highgate to hear John Butcher and Phil Minton play a short concert to launch their new CD release Apples of Gomorrah (GROB 429). Minton was as remarkable and disconcerting as ever, a constant magnet for the eyes ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher: Cavern with Nightlife, New Oakland Burr & 13 Friendly Numbers
by Kurt Gottschalk
British saxophonist John Butcher has become one of the preeminent voices in the world of veryquiet improv, having been a member of the supergroup Polwechsel and working with such artists as Rhodri Davies, Axel Dorner and Phil Minton. At the same time, he's pushed his horn into the role of feedback machine, close-miking it and turning up the volume alongside analogue synthesizer player Thomas Lehn and guitarist Andy Moor of the punk band The Ex.
John Butcher/Toshimaru Nakamura ...
Continue ReadingJohn Butcher & Toshimaru Nakamura: Cavern with Nightlife
by AAJ Staff
British saxophonist John Butcher has an exceptional ear for nuance and color on his instrument, and for that reason any new record is worth checking out. His approach to music draws from free improv, electroacoustic, and creative modern classical approaches, making it hard to classify, but it's generally quite abstract and involved, especially in timbre and tone.But with close to forty documented appearances to date, though--alone, in duos, and small groups--there's a lot to choose from. In my ...
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