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Toshimaru Nakamura & John Butcher
butcher, nakamura
© andy newcombe - cafe oto, london, 2008.

"There's a very particular aura about this music - it's holy metallic noise"
Squid's Ear - Florence Wetzel

Dusted Machinery | Cavern with Nightlife


In 2002 Hisashi Terauchi invited John Butcher for his first visit to Japan. The tour was partly solo and partly with Japanese musicians suggested by Hisashi. A duo concert with Nakamura was their first encouter and makes up half of the CD Cavern with Nightlife.
A second chance to play together again occured in 2004, at Plan B in Tokyo.
Since then they've maintained sporadic meetings, such as at the First Last LMC Festival and Cafe Oto in London, and Instant Chavires in Paris.
When the two musicians were invited to record in London for David Sylvian's "When we return you won't recogise us" project they set the next afternoon aside to visit Dave Hunt's Shepherd's Bush studio and made the recording that is now "Dusted Machinery".

In 2013 Improvised Music from Japan will release a collection from the Ftarri/Doubtmusic Festival 2010 including Butcher and Nakamuras' trio set with Tetuzi Akiyama.

Dusted Machinery

2010 studio recording, released on monotype.

Toshimaru Nakamura - no-input mixing desk
John Butcher - saxophones, acoustic and feedback

free jazz | The Watchful Ear | The Whole Note | Dusted | freq | squid's ear

Cavern with Nightlife

Two Japanese concerts from 2002 on Weight of Wax.

2nd half: Duo with Toshimaru Nakimura.
1st half: Solo inside the Oya Stone mountain.

Dusted


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