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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Wednesday 27th November, 2013 |
| N | 8:00pm |
John Butcher / saxophones
John Edwards / double bass
Gino Robair / energised surfaces, drum kit, and synthesiser
John Butcher has played, separately, and mainly in duo, with Gino Robair and John Edwards since 1997. In 2008 the three first played together in the seven piece John Butcher Group - and the idea of forming a trio - The Apophonics - came to fruition in 2011 with some concerts in France and Belgium. In Spring 2012 they performed in Germany and Austria - and recorded a special session for BBC Radio 3's Jazz on 3.
"If Butcher's playing was sympathetically creative with the previous trio, his improvising was equally spectacular with The Apophonics. Built around extrasensory sonic perception their strategy advanced amoeba-like, continuously melding and breaking apart timbres in different configurations and with varied possibilities. Edwards' super-speedy wood and string smacking was sometimes appropriately violent; Butcher's output jumped from sonorous glissandi to staccato reed bites and Robair's holistic approach sometimes seemed child-like as he smacked his mallets on the stage floor, rubbed a violin bow on drum rims and literally blew on the drum skin. The saxophonist's lines could be sonorously wispy or could consist of reed finger-tapping or using foot-pedal-controlled electronics to pick up the feedback generated as he moved his tenor in different arcs without blowing into it." Ken Waxman, New York City Jazz Record
