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"the sound sings multitudes, like the universal chord of Theosophy" Jason Bivins / Dusted
Rhodri Davies and John Butcher first collaborated in 1997, in Butch Morris' London Skyscraper and Chris Burn's Ensemble. Since then they have met in a wide range of projects, but have continually returned to duo explorations. Carliol Recorded: Newcastle, London, Crear.Butcher - tenor or soprano saxophones - plus feedback, motors, embedded harp speaker Davies - pedal harp, lever harp with embedded speaker and electric harp. Aeolian electric harp just outside | Cyclic Defrost | Dusted | killed in cars | Sunday Times | aphidhair | freq Vortices and Angels
order CD from Emanem. Bailey/Butcher - in concert at the Vortex.
Suddenly we're inside a church, hearing Butcher skittering out a difficult thread of fluttering noises so high-pitched that they're almost not there, while out of the other speaker come isolated sounds of springy, loosened-strings from what I thought was Derek Bailey's big acoustic guitar but noooooo! It's the unprecedented improvising harpist Rhodri Davies pulling off strange, isolated notes from his instrument. Sploingg.... buzzzzz.... Butcher then joins him in the lower registers (why, in church, yet!), blowing moody, fluttery figures with an almost granulated rough edge. Freely improvised duo playing rarely gets as tasty as this. Niiiiiice. |