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Butcher, John: 13 Friendly Numbers (Unsounds)


 

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UPC: 634479839726

Label: Unsounds
Catalog ID: 07u
Squidco Product Code: 6166

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2004
Country: The Netherlands
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in London, 1991. Solos by Steve Lowe at Gateway Studios. Multitracks by Justin Underhill at Pathway Studios.


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Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"John Butcher appeared on six records, beginning with the 1984 LP "Fonetiks, before he first released "Thirteen Friendly Numbers" on his own Acta label in 1992. But the disc is still something of a debut; it is the first document of his peculiar language for solo saxophone, which he had fashioned by purging his vocabulary of the instrument's familiar sounds and jazz-associated gestures, and filling the space with carefully selected sounds located at the periphery of instrumental control. Butcher's inspirations were as singular as his sounds. In musique concrete, he explains, "the actual source of the sound could change quite drastically within the course of a phrase of the music, and I was intrigued with trying to find ways of doing that on the saxophone. [...] His burgeoning discography now includes [many] more solo albums, yet this one still holds its own in any company; the ideas are compelling, the playing committed, the music thrilling. In an age when so many records of improvised music seem like little more than calling cards, that's no mean feat."-Bill Meyer, Berwyn IL, January 2004


Artist Biographies

"John Butcher's work ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and extreme acoustics.Originally a physicist, he left academia in '82, and has since collaborated with hundreds of musicians - Derek Bailey, John Tilbury, John Stevens, The EX, Akio Suzuki, Gerry Hemingway, Polwechsel, Gino Robair, Rhodri Davies, Okkyung Lee, John Edwards, Toshi Nakamura, Paul Lovens, Eddie Prevost, Mark Sanders, Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Phil Minton, and Andy Moor - to name a few.

He is well known as a solo performer who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of place. Resonant Spaces is a collection of site-specific performances collected during a tour of unusual locations in Scotland and the Orkney Islands.His first solo album, Thirteen Friendly Numbers, includes compositions for multitracked saxophones, whilst later solo CDs focus on live performance, composition, amplification and saxophone-controlled feedback.

HCMF has twice commissioned him to compose for his own large ensembles. Other commissions include for Elision (Australia), the Rova (USA) & Quasar (Canada) Saxophone Quartets, reconstructed Futurist Intonarumori (USA), "Tarab Cuts" (based on pre-WWII Arabic recordings, and shortlisted for the 2014 British Composer's Award) and "Good Liquor .." for the London Sinfonietta. In 2011 he received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists.

Recent groupings include The Apophonics with Robair and Edwards, Anemone with Peter Evans, Plume with Tony Buck & Magda Mayas and a trio with Okkyung Lee & Mark Sanders.Butcher values playing in occasional encounters - ranging from large groups such as Butch Morris' London Skyscraper and the EX Orkestra, to duo concerts with David Toop, Kevin Drumm, Claudia Binder, Paal Nilssen-Love, Thomas Lehn, Fred Frith, Keiji Haino, Ute Kangeisser, Matthew Shipp and Yuji Takahashi."

-John Butcher Website (http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Biog.html)
9/25/2023

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Track Listing:



1. Buccinator's Outing 7:31

2. Notelet 1:44

3. There Are Today More Than 390 Known Pairs Of Friendly Numbers 1:55

4. A Leap In The Light 4:40

5. Bells And Clappers 3:39

6. Two Up-Two Down 4:05

7. Humours And Vapours 4:04

8. Uncommon Currency 1:08

9. A Sense Of Occasion 2:39

10. The Brittle Chance 2:37

11. Mackle Music 1:50

12. Tolv Two Elf Kater Ten (It Can't Be) Sax 4:16

13. Wisp & Whisk 6:03

Related Categories of Interest:

John Butcher
Improvised Music
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
May 2006
London & UK Improv & Related Scenes
Recordings by or featuring Reed & Wind Players

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