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John 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 ...
The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex
by Eyal Hareuveni
The EX The Convoy Tour: 25 Years of The Ex Ex Records 2009 Dutch group The Ex might be one of the greatest jazz bands ever. Not, most certainly, because it has mastered a traditional, neo-con agenda, but because it rebels constantly against all such paradigms and conventions, ...
Eddie Prevost: Looking Back, Looking Forward
by John Eyles
Drummer and percussionist Eddie Prévost was a founding member of the pioneering free-improvising group AMM, back in 1965, and has remained a member ever since. In the intervening years, AMM saw frequent personnel changes, from the early lineup of Prévost--saxophonist Lou Gare, guitarist Keith Rowe, pianist Cornelius Cardew, and cellist Lawrence Sheaff--through to the current duo ...
Mostly Other People Do the Killing: Forty Fort
by Eyal Hareuveni
The experience of listening to the highly gifted quartet Mostly Other Do the Killing (MOPDtK) is like taking a ride on roller-coaster while drunk, but still trusting your life in the hands of a wild driver who often has some epileptic fits. It is fun, no doubt; a wild fun, like going to a circus. But ...
Julius Vasylenko: Seeing Stars
by Gordon Marshall
Julius Vasylenko has earthy charisma. Because of his accent, people who come into his purlieu immediately assume an association with elite British improvisers. “Did he hang with Derek Bailey?" they wonder...I could say Vasylenko, a multi-reed and saxophonist now based in Boston, was John Butcher's and Evan Parker's kid brother. However, it ...
Alone, Again (Naturally): Peter Brotzmann, Olaf Rupp, Henry Kaiser, John Butcher, Woody Sullender and Frank Rosaly
by Clifford Allen
For this writer, solo playing and solo concerts have a special place. A few years before I began writing about jazz, and while living in New York at the beginning of the 2000s, I ran into the late violinist Leroy Jenkins in the East Village. I didn't know him personally, but he was instantly recognizable, and ...
Treader Duos
By John Butcher
Label: Treader
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tooth Pivot; The Pews; We Dare To Sing.
Resonant Spaces
By John Butcher
Label: Confront Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sympathetic Magic (stone); Calls From A Rusty Cage; Wind Piece; Floating Cult; Close By, A
Waterfall; New Scapas Flow; Styptic; Frost Piece; Sympathetic Magic (metal).
Buffalo Pearl
By John Butcher
Label: Auricle Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Light Queen; Head Nickel; McGeist; No Illusion; The Good Neighbor.
Way Out Northwest
By John Butcher
Label: Drip Audio
Released: 2009
Track listing: haufig eine hydraulische Metaphertendenz; Magic Clock Machine; Sibila e Succhia; Sharpening the Windings until they roll up, roll up and snag on the point of the Tear; Taktgebertendenz; Gone, Goner.
