Developing their dialog and language during the 90s through mutual work with organizations including King Ubu Orchestra and Chris Burn's Ensemble, the unique approach to free improv between keyboard & electronic artist Matt Hutchinson and trumpeter Chris Burn are heard in these three UK concerts from 2005 & 2006 at Red Rose Club, the White House and The Music Room.
Format: CDR Condition: New Released: 2012 Country: UK Packaging: Jewel Case Tracks 3, 4, 7 to 9 recorded at the Red Rose Club, in London, UK, in September, 2005.
Tracks 1, 2, 6, 10 recorded at the White House, in Buckland, UK, in March, 2006.
Track 5 recorded at The Music Room, in London, UK, in July, 2006.
"Recorded in 2005 / 2006 by two essentials of the London improvised scene subscribed to the Mopomoso concert series at the old Red Rose where some of the songs from this album were recorded. Pianist Chris Burn, who plays the trumpet here, co-directed this series with John Russell and collaborated for a long time with John Butcher. Matt Hutchinson has developed the use of synthesizers and electronics with ductility and readability between mezzoforte peaks with all the nuances of dynamics up to the limit of the audible. We have often heard him with Phil Wachsmann, with whom he recorded a beautiful duet (Startle the Echoes / Bead), and within the Chris Burn Ensemble of which he seems to form the basic core with the trumpet of its leader. Each instrumentalist shares a sense of breath, a metaphysics of tubes, the electronics engineer evoking the sudden skids of a mouthpiece and the trumpet player waving the air in space. This is the place where the wind passes, the pressure of the lips crushing the column of air. The search for timbres and sounds is absolutely fascinating, far from the ritual outbursts of free music. The projection of electronic sounds is remarkable in every respect, the frequencies spread naturally in space creating moving shapes as an acoustic instrument could not, thereby justifying its use. We quickly forget who plays what to focus on the orchestration of the duo. Chris Burn seems to be a Sunday trumpeter, a melancholic colorist who transforms a deliberately minimal game into a relevant musical discourse, ghostly suspended above drones in slow misty glissandi (Salvation Echoes). Each piece completely renews the sound geography of this improbable duo. In Birdwing Shadow, Matt is at the piano and Chris gives a superb demonstration of the crazy timbres he draws from his instrument by methodically exploring it. Truly remarkable. The sonic palette of Matt Hutchinson's electronic keyboards is oddly enhanced by the trumpeter's two-and-a-half-note melodic hints better, in fact, than an impressively technical saxophonist could. I remind you that it is with these musicians that the proponents of the "new" improvisation have emerged, including Rhodri Davies, Mark Wastell, Phil Durrant, Jim Denley, Axel Dörner etc... but also Butcher, Marcio Mattos... We must therefore do not hesitate to discover these two equilibrists of atmospheres, sensitive artists of the extension of meaning. British improvisers have an innate sense of cultivating the unreasonable, the eccentric and that spirit of fantasy that is the hallmark of improvisation. Here you will find an irrefutable demonstration. With similar material, Germans would have razed us mercilessly. Cheers for Matt Hutchinson and Chris Burn!!"-Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, Orynx Improv Sound (translated by Google)