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John Butcher Group
Chris Burn | John Butcher | Adam Linson | John Edwards | Thomas Lehn | Clare Cooper | Gino Robair | dieb13
soundcheck, bimhuis, amsterdam, holland. november 2008.
somethingtobesaid
"Somethingtobesaid is important and powerful work, mixing mystery and certainty in subtle and sometimes disturbing ways."
Stuart Broomer / Point of Departure
The John Butcher Group was specially formed to play at the the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
The piece, somethingtobesaid was composed through an HCMF commission - and the group is a mix of musicians drawn from both long-time colleagues and more recent musical encounters. The players come from England, Germany, Austria, the USA and Australia.
A preliminary version was performed at November Music in Den Bosch, Holland, and the full premier given in Huddersfield a week later.
somethingtobesaid was choosen as a Réseau Varèse project and in March 2010 a revised version was performed at Berlin's MaerzMusik Festival - reviewed at musiccritisism.
HCMF programme note.
somethingtobesaid
Recorded live at the HCMF.
November 2008.
John Butcher Group
Chris Burn - piano
John Butcher - saxophones & pre-recordings
Clare Cooper - harp & guzheng
dieb 13 - turntables
John Edwards - bass
Thomas Lehn - synth
Adam Linson - bass & electronics
Gino Robair - percussion
WIRE | Point of Departure | Cyclic Defrost | horrible heaven | dusted | jazzmann
.. singular and often strangely beautiful music.
Substantial too - like the loaf of bread in Philip Butcher's splendid painting on the cover.
Something said; something really worth saying.
Julian Cowley / WIRE
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