Results for "Rastascan Records"
Blasphemious Fragments

By John Butcher
Label: Rastascan Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: So Ladylike the Muse Unsqueaked a Ray of Hopk [sic]; Blasphemious Fragments; Circumstantial; Maze of False Promises; Sumptuous Disturbances (and a Carol); A Simple Man with Irregular Habits; Ruttledge’s Door; Small Things, Hewn from the Same Block; Sustaining Vain Gestures on the Air; Blue night. In the Darkness of the Dome They Wait; Minced and Gilded Oaths.
Minton - Butcher - Robair: Blasphemious Fragments

by John Eyles
Studio-recorded in London in July 2017, Blasphemious Fragments brings together an appealing improvising trio comprising vocalist Phil Minton, saxophonist John Butcher and percussionist Gino Robair. For Butcher, the trio reacquaints him with players he has known for decades; he and Minton recorded Two Concerts (FMP) together as far back as 1995, in a trio with German ...
Interactions Quartet

Label: Rastascan Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Interactions #2; Interactions #6; Interactions #1; Interactions #5; Interactions #4; Piece for
Four Instruments: H+A+Solo 4; F+Solo 3; C+D; G; Solo1; E.
Andrew Raffo Dewar: Interactions Quartet

by Eyal Hareuveni
Composer, ethnomusicologist, educator and saxophonist Andrew Raffo Dewar studied and worked with some of the most forward-thinking and innovative musicians and composers such as Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon and Alvin Lucier. So it is only natural that his work expands on their compositional ideas and focuses on invented forms, experimenting with new sounds and ...
Andrew Raffo Dewar: Interactions Quartet

by Libero Farnè
Ecco un esempio di come i confini fra improvvisazione di matrice jazzistica e concezione compositiva contemporanea possano oggi essere sfumati, con travalicamenti continui da un'area all'altra, sia per quanto riguarda i meccanismi della produzione sonora da parte degli esecutori, sia per quanto attiene gli esiti del messaggio musicale percepito da chi ascolta. Dell'ambiziosa e impegnativa operazione, ...
Apophenia

By John Butcher
Label: Rastascan Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Knabble; Fainéant; Jirble; Camorra.
John Butcher / Gino Robair: Apophenia

by John Eyles
The partnership of John Butcher and Gino Robair dates back to 1997, their first joint release appearing soon after. It is some years since they released their last duo recording-- New Oakland Burr (Rastascan, 2004)--but Robair was part of Butcher's seven-piece group, which recorded somethingtobesaid (Weight of Wax, 2009) at the Huddersfield Festival in 2008. Now ...