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John Butcher lives in London. His playing ranges through free improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked recordings and tape pieces. He has been involved with numerous groups, including the final version of John Stevens's Spontaneous Music Ensemble, the Butcher/ Durrant/ Russell trio, Chris Burn's Ensemble, a trio with Derek Bailey and Oren Marshall, various of Bailey's Company Weeks, Butch Morris's London skyscraper, the Phil Minton Quartet, Polwechsel and an electromanipulations duo with Phil Durrant. More on John Butcher with his interview and discussion from One Final Note Gino Robair is a percussionist, music journalist, and published composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Gino frequently tours North America and Europe as a soloist and often improvises in ad-hoc groups. He has performed with Anthony Braxton, LaDonna Smith, Otomo Yoshihide, Eugene Chadbourne, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, The Club Foot Orchestra, and he is a founding member of the Splatter Trio. Matthew Sperry also hails from the Bay Area. He was introduced to Improvised Music in 1990 while studying avant-garde, world and classical music at Florida State University. It was there that he met and studied with Wadada Leo Smith and started a lifelong collaboration with shakuhachi player Phil Gelb. He has worked with some of Seattle's more notorious music groups, including The Long String Instrument Band, Seattle Experimental Opera and Gamelan Pacifica. He has performed with an international cast of improvisers, including Gunter Christmann, Jack Wright, Georg Graewe, Francois Houle, and Stuart Dempster. |
Line 9::: 12 Milagritos 12 Milagritos features John Butcher, one of the most original saxophone voices of the day, joined by Gino Robair and Matthew Sperry. Never content with simply being an exercise in pushing the capabilities of their instruments beyond the parameters of established technique, the music here is also deeply fascinating and breathtaking too. No lavish ornamentation, but twelve statements of exuberance given momentum by a subtle delicacy 12 tracks in 57:32 minutes. You might also enjoy: Light's View (Butcher and Gräwe) Requests and Antisongs (Butcher and Durrant) The Ilya Tree (Paul Flaherty, Greg Kelley, John Voigt, Laurence Cook) The First Two Gigs (Butcher, Burn, Davies, Edwards) The Contest of Pleasures (Butcher, Charles, Dörner) Live At Palo-Palo (Kucan, Stanko, Oliver, Danner, Elgart) Desert Sweets (Vinkeloe, Weaver, Smith) Concert Moves (Butcher, Durrant, Russell) Madly You (Lazro, Zingaor, Léandre, Lovens) Lines (Denley, Dorner, Wachsmann, Mattos, Blume) |
