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Distinct Machinery
By Georg Graewe
Label: Random Acoustics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Inklings; Hot and Cold; Torsion; Metes and Bounds; Drunken Thread; Fissures; Flank Angle; Entanglements;
Flow Field; Refraction; Desmodromics I; Desmodromics II; Desmodromics III; Cold and Hot.
Until The Night Melts Away
By John Butcher
Label: Shrike Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Until The Night Melts Away
Discernment
By Dominic Lash
Label: Spoonhunt
Released: 2021
Track listing: discerning 1; discerning 2; discerning 3; discerned
John Butcher / Dominic Lash / John Russell / Mark Sanders: Discernment
by John Sharpe
As part of his 40th birthday celebration at Cafe Oto in January 2020, bassist Dominic Lash convened a quartet of some of the UK's finest improvisers, completed by guitarist John Russell, saxophonist John Butcher and drummer Mark Sanders. With such experienced practitioners, there are any number of prior connections which help ensure a successful and empathetic ...
Matthias Müller / Eve Risser / Christian Marien: Formation < Deviation
by John Sharpe
Two German improvisers, trombonist Matthias Mueller and drummer Christian Marien, join forces with French pianist Eve Risser for a brace of intriguing collectives under the moniker Cranes. Müller and Marien have performed together since 2006 as Superimpose, often appearing with guests, including saxophonist John Butcher, trumpeter Nate Wooley and vocalist Sofia Jernberg on their 2021 release ...
Phillips, Butcher, Solberg: We Met - And Then
by John Sharpe
Sometimes three is a crowd, but when the company is as empathetic and welcoming as the fertile established partnership of British saxophonist John Butcher and Swedish percussionist Ståle Liavik Solberg, then the addition of veteran American bassist Barre Phillips serves as more of a benediction. Butcher and Solberg only came together in 2015, but ...
Dieb13 & Marina Džukljev: Štrudel
by Mark Corroto
Maybe the most appropriate words for the duet between Dieb13 and Marina Džukljev come from Talking Head's song “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)," David Byrne sings “The less we say about it the better / Make it up as we go along / Feet on the ground, head in the sky / It's okay, ...
Two trios and a quartet from John Butcher
by John Eyles
Saxophonist John Butcher's impressively large discography features many trio recordings; in fact, trios come a close second to the many duo albums he has recorded. Plenty of Butcher's trio recordings are with groupings that are long-standing, some having acquired names out of necessity, such as The Contest of Pleasures (with Xavier Charles and Axel Dörner) or ...
Spoonhunt's First CD Releases
by John Eyles
Like the notorious London buses, with musician-run independent record labels, you wait ages for one to arrive and then two come along together. Just as punters were welcoming N.O. Moore's new dx/dy label, along comes the first batch of releases on bassist Dominic Lash's charmingly-named Spoonhunt label. To be fair, Spoonhunt is not totally new. Since ...
Frisque Concordance: Distinct Machinery
by John Eyles
The group Frisque Concordance began back in October 1992 when the quartet—comprising UK saxophonist John Butcher and the Germans pianist Georg Graewe, double bassist Hans Schneider and drummer Martin Blume—was recorded live at the Ruhr Jazz Festival in Bochum, Germany. The results were released in 1993 as Spellings, the first album on Graewe's Random Acoustics label. ...
