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These Records used to organise Saturday afternoon concerts in their small Wandsworth shop. Beresford and Butcher first played together at one in 1992, and have performed in duo ever since. Memorable concerts include Vancouver, Lausanne and Brighton. I Shall become a Bat
On Qbico.Black vinyl with red effects, cover artwork by Marcel Duchamp. Side A: Beresford electronics & objects / Butcher saxophones Side B: Beresford electronics & objects / Sanderson electronics & objects
Butcher's raucous saxophone blasts are the perfect foil for Beresford's more aggressive electronics, which initially sound off like a broken fire alarm before easing into a more Ambient flow. Meanwhile Butcher continues to bombard with a series of inventive and brilliantly timed horn intrusions that bang and buzz like a trapped hornet against the fluid frame of noise loosely assembled by Beresford.
18 minutes of the duo on a 2 CD collection of music from 2001's Freedom of the City Festival. full info: Emanem
The semi-regular pairing of Steve Beresford on electronics and John Butcher on saxes provide my favourite music of the entire album.
This trio with Steve Beresford and Paul Lovens formed to play at the 2002 Musikprotokoll in Graz, and regrouped for the 2005 Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen.
"Screen Play" invites the live performers to provide aural correlatives to what they're watching. Percussionist Paul Lovens sometimes cheerfully did just that, but with the kind of surreal slippage we had in Bruszewski's films. |