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Breaking the sound barrier - by Phillip Clark. The March WIRE features an article which looks at some of my work, in particular the earlier London days. The accompanying Web Exlusive has 3 downloadable tracks. Filmaker Helen Petts has posted videos (at YouTube) from last February's duos concert at St. Giles. John Butcher & Mark Sanders - Part 1 :: Part 2 Alex Ward & Roger Turner - Part 1 :: Part 2 John Tchicai & Tony Marsh - Part 1 :: Part 2 And look for other interesting videos by Helen Petts under "helentonic". Whilst looking, I came across this video. Hard at work in Porto, where they wanted 4 performances throughout the day, in situations requiring some robustness. Bill Shoemaker's online magazine Point of Departure features a Roundtable discussion which, this month, has myself, Vijay Iyer and Giancarlo Schiaffini pondering the music and science connection/divide. Somehow, I never got to hear many of Derek Bailey's less expected collaborations - and have just bought Mirakle (with Jamaaladeen Tacuma and Calvin Weston). Incredible playing from him. (Hearing Neil Young in London last week, I began fantasising about a Bailey and Young feedback duo.) I did catch a Derek and the Ruins set once, where I overheard a teenager in the toilet saying "That was pretty good, although the old guy's a bit of a jazzer". ...So, all is certainly relative.

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order CD from Drip Audio Way Out Northwest The trio's first performance, from the 2007 Vancouver Jazz Festival. John Butcher - saxophones Torsten Muller - contra bass Dylan van der Schyff - drums read :: WIRE :: Dusted :: cokemachineglow order CD from Another Timbre Tempestuous The Contest of Pleasures live at the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. John Butcher - saxophones Xavier Charles - clarinet Axel Doerner - trumpet read :: Point of Departure order CD from Emanem The Geometry of Sentiment solo saxophones, acoustic and amplified/feedback Live recordings from Japan (2004) and Europe (2006). Sleeve notes by Stuart Broomer. Read :: all about jazz 1 :: all about jazz 2 order CD from Clean Feed Strokes Sten Sandell - piano & electronics John Butcher - saxophones, acoustic/amplified/feedback Johan Berthling - bass Paal Nilssen-Love - drums and percussion Read :: Dusted CDs - coming up: :: Confront will be releasing a selection of solo pieces taken from my Resonant Spaces tour in 2006. :: Eddie Prevost, John Tilbury, John Butcher. Due to the exorbitant fee the BBC wanted Matchless to pay for releasing our trio recording from last your, the group recorded a fresh session in January.

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2008 :: MAY 26 - HELSINKI. trio with Teppo Hauta-aho (double bass) & Heikki Nikula (bass clarinet) 7.30, Malmi Hall, Helsinki, Finland. :: MAY 29 - PARIS. duo with Christof Kurzmann. Instants Chavirés, 7 rue Richard Lenoir, Montreuil, France. :: MAY 30 - LONDON. duo with Toshimaru Nakamura. Part of The First Last LMC Festival - celebrating the removal of its grant by the discredited ACE Music Department. Other musicians (28 and 29 May) include Christian Marclay, Richard Barrett, Louisa Martin, Chris Cutler, John Wall. Cafe OTO, 18-22 Ashwin St, London, E8 3DL. // :: JUNE 05 - BERKELEY. Solo + combinations with Gino Robair, John Shiurba, Tom Djill, Tim Perkis. An Evening of the 6th Annual Memorial Festival for Matthew Sperry. The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley, CA, USA. :: JUNE 08 - SAN FRANCISCO. Solo. + improvisations with the sfSound group, who will also be playing music by John Cage, Kaija Saariaho and Bruno Ruviaro. sfSound. 8 pm. ODC Dance Commons, 351 Shotwell St, San Francisco, CA, USA. :: JUNE 10 - OAKLAND. trio with Damon Smith & Weasel Walter. 21 Grand, 416 25th St. (at Broadway), Oakland, CA, USA. :: JUNE 11 - BERKELEY. trio with Bill Hsu & David Wessel. CNMAT, 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA,USA.
+ TORSTEN MÜLLER & DYLAN van der SCHYFF. :: JUNE 12 - PORTLAND. The Creative Music Guild at Fez Ballroom, 316 SW 11th, Portland, Oregon, USA. :: JUNE 14 - ASTORIA. Joined by Paul Hoskins for the 2nd set. Visual Arts Centre, Astoria, Oregon, USA. :: JUNE 15 - SEATTLE. Live Sonarchy Radio broadcast from Jack Straw Studio, Seattle, Washington, USA. :: JUNE 19 - VANCOUVER. Turk's West Cofffee House, Vancouver, BC, Canada. :: JUNE 20 - VANCOUVER. Vancouver Jazz Festival, Performance Works, Granville Island, Vancouver, BC, Canada. :: JUNE 24 - GABRIOLA ISLAND. Zula at The Roxy, 560 North Road, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada. :: JUNE 25 - VICTORIA. Victoria Jazz Festival at Open Space Arts Centre, 510 Fort Street, 2nd floor Victoria, BC, Canada.
// :: JULY 02 - LONDON. Solo. Twisted Lounge, Cake Koha, 11 St. Martin's Court, Leicester Square, London WC2 :: JULY 07 - LONDON. duo with Eddie Prevost. Plus I-C-E (Improvising Clarinet Ensemble) and dancer Geoffery Unkovich performing part of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise. 8pm, The Music Room, O'Neills Pub, 762 Leytonstone High Road, Leytonstone, London E11 :: JULY 13 - LISBON. trio with Carlos Zingaro & Gunter Müller 9pm, Belém Cultural Center (CCB), Praca do Império, Belem, Lisbon, Portugal. :: JULY 26 - RAAHE. duo with Gerry Heminway. Jazz on the Beach, Raahe, Finland. // :: AUGUST 17/18/19 - LONDON. Fête Quaqua. John Russell's annual festival. Mopomoso at The Vortex 11 Gillett Square, London N16 :: AUGUST 28 - MULHOUSE. duo with Eddie Prevost Jazz à Mulhouse, Chapelle Saint-Jean, Mulhouse, France. // :: SEPTEMBER 20 - BERLIN. Solo. ausland, Lychener Str. 60, Berlin, Germany. :: SEPTEMBER 24 - BERLIN. quartet with Magda Mayas, Michael Zerang & Christine Sehnaoui. Phil Minton Quartet. :: SEPTEMBER 26/27 - WROCLAW. Wroclaw Festival, Poland. :: SEPTEMBER 28 - HOFHEIM. Jazzkeller, Hattersheimer Str. 6b, Hofheim, Germany. // Alberto Braida Quartet with John Edwards & Fabrizio Spera. :: OCTOBER 03 - COLOGNE. LOFT, Wissmannstraße 30, Köln, Germany. :: OCTOBER 04 - WUPPERTAL. :: OCTOBER 05 - MÜNSTER.