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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).

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Article: Live Review

Tristan Honsinger and Tobias Delius at the Jazzwerkstatt in Berlin

Read "Tristan Honsinger and Tobias Delius at the Jazzwerkstatt in Berlin" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe

Tristan Honsinger and Tobias Delius Jazzwerkstatt + klassik SHOP Berlin 31 October 2009 An in-store concert at Berlin's ultra smart Jazzwerkstatt café and record shop, just off the city's main shopping strip at Kurfürstendamm, provided the unlikely venue for the ongoing collaboration of cellist Tristan Honsinger and reedman Tobias ...

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Article: Live From New York

December 2009

Read "December 2009" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff

Jesse Stacken and Kurt KnuffkeCornelia Street CafeNew York, NY November 8, 2009When pianist Jesse Stacken and trumpeter Kirk Knuffke played Cornelia Street Café (Nov. 8th) to celebrate their SteepleChase duo release Mockingbird, they surveyed not only Monk and Ellington tunes--the album's focus--but also demanding works by Lennie Tristano and Charles ...

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Article: Album Review

John Butcher & Mark Sanders / Alex Ward & Roger Turner / John Tchicai & Tony Marsh: Treader Duos

Read "Treader Duos" reviewed by John Eyles

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Gerry Hemingway: Songs

Read "Songs" reviewed by Martin Longley

by Martin Longley

When drummer Gerry Hemingway decides to pursue a song-based project, the only predictable outcome is that it will be unpredictable. His approach to composition includes elements of rock, electronica, minimalism and Broadway intimacy, yet can't be deemed any of these things. As well as the music, Hemingway has also penned the words. His chosen voice is ...

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Article: Live Review

London Broil: John Butcher at The Stone, NYC

Read "London Broil: John Butcher at The Stone, NYC" reviewed by Gordon Marshall

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 ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

David Sylvian: Manafon

Read "David Sylvian: Manafon" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman

David Sylvian Manafon samadhisound 2009 Since first emerging as the lead singer of 1980s synth pop group Japan, singer/multi-instrumentalist David Sylvian has turned, in many ways most surprisingly, into one of pop music's most intrepid explorers. As early as his first solo album, the crooner with a distinctive and intentioned vibrato ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Improvisation from Barcelona: Agusti Fernandez and Octante

Read "Improvisation from Barcelona: Agusti Fernandez and Octante" reviewed by John Eyles

by John Eyles

Albums by pianist Agusti Fernandez and the group Octante (as well as the concurrent release of Barcelona Chronicles by guitarist Derek Bailey) provide a timely opportunity to celebrate the dynamic improvised music scene of Barcelona, Spain. The profile of the city's improvisers has steadily grown in recent years, not least because of the work of IBA ...

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Article: Album Review

The New Black: The White Album

Read "The White Album" reviewed by Clifford Allen

by Clifford Allen

Percussionist Gino Robair's Rastascan label, based in the Bay Area, has long been a sort of outpost for non-idiomatic improvisation in the US, recording groups like the Evan Parker/Barry Guy/Paul Lytton Trio, German reedman Wolfgang Fuchs, saxophonist John Butcher and guitarist Derek Bailey. Robair studied with AMM percussionist Eddie Prevost in England, as well as composition ...

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Article: Album Review

AMM with John Butcher: Trinity

Read "Trinity" reviewed by Nic Jones

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 ...


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