Results for "Joe McPhee/John Butcher"

Joe McPhee/John Butcher

At The Hill Of James Magee

By Joe McPhee/John Butcher

Label: Trost Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Sometimes Yes, Sometimes No; Mine Shaft; Paradise Overcast; A Forty Foot Square Room; Torcello; St. Ida’s Breath (Less Her Head And Teeth).

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

by John Eyles
January 28, 2019

The roots of this album lie in two previous John Butcher recordings, his four solo pieces recorded in the resonant Oya Stone Museum, Utsunomiya City, Japan, in November 2002, which featured on Cavern With Nightlife (Weight of Wax, 2004), and Resonant Spaces (Confront, 2008) which documented a 2006 tour he made of various resonant sites--including a ...

Joe McPhee/John Butcher: At The Hill Of James Magee

by Mark Corroto
January 23, 2019

The music of saxophonists Joe McPhee and John Butcher has habitually been centered on place. By that I mean environment, the situation and setting for sound creation. We can go all the way back to McPhee's Tenor (Hat Hut, 1977), his ghostly recording laid down in a farmhouse in Adlemsried, Switzerland, or, more recently, the astonishing ...