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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 ...
Another Timbre completes Piano Series
by John Eyles
These three releases complete the Another Timbre label's Piano Series alongside pianist John Tilbury's and electronicist Sebastian Lexer's Lost Daylight (2010). Taken together, the four very different releases in the series pose questions about the modern role of the piano, particularly when the instrument is prepared in increasingly complex ways, and combined with electronics in the ...
Ulrich Krieger: Bringing Metal Machine Music to Life
by John Eyles
Lou Reed's 1975 release Metal Machine Music--often referred to as “MMM"--is one of the most notorious and misunderstood albums in rock history. Its four sides of guitar feedback were not well received by Reed fans used to songs and vocals. The album was critically panned and withdrawn three weeks after release. Many who bought it returned ...
Barb Jungr: Smart, Sassy, Sexy
by John Eyles
Singer Barb Jungr is on a roll at present. In March 2009 she and accompanist Simon Wallace played for the first time at Café Carlyle, in New York City, presenting a show entitled “The Men I Love" which featured songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Todd Rundgren and Neil Diamond. The ...
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 ...
Grosse Abfahrt: Vanity
by John Eyles
Grosse Abfahrt is a sizeable ensemble, here consisting of eight players. Leader Tom Djll is aware that a grouping of this size presents issues to be addressed. As he outlines in his sleeve notes, one of these is “the conflict between fluency and comfort among improvising compadres. Fluency between players' languages and approaches is desirable, of ...
John Tilbury / Sebastian Lexer: Lost Daylight
by John Eyles
Lost Daylight has been a long time arriving. It has been much trailed, and eagerly anticipated since 2008, as indicated by its low catalogue number, at10. Now released as part of Another Timbre's piano series, alongside at24 and at25, good things are always worth waiting for--and this release proves the truth of that adage. Quite simply, ...
FURT and electronics on Psi
by John Eyles
The four latest releases on saxophonist Evan Parker's Psi label tell an interesting story about the past decade as well as about Psi and Parker. Each of the four releases features electronics and includes one or both members of the improvising electronics duo FURT--Richard Barrett and Paul Obermayer. After Psi debuted in late 2001, ...
Paul Rutherford: Tetralogy (1978-82)
by John Eyles
As Joni Mitchell wrote, you don't what you've got till it's gone. So it has proved with legendary trombonist and euphonium player Paul Rutherford. A massive void has been left since his sudden death in August 2007. Sad to think we'll never see his walrus moustache and distinctive red braces again, listen to his ever-sensible views ...
John Butcher & Mark Sanders / Alex Ward & Roger Turner / John Tchicai & Tony Marsh: Treader Duos
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 ...
