Latest Releases
Volatile Object
Pat Thomas / John Butcher / Ståle Liavik Solberg
The Glass Changes ShapeJohn Butcher / Florian Stoffner/ Chris Corsano
Parallel Streams
John Butcher / Luigi Marino / Mark Wastell
Fluid Fixations
A 14 piece group recorded at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
The Very Fabric
solo inside a giant water tower in Copenhagen.
Braids
Chris Corsano / John Butcher / Florian Stoffner
Ice in a Hot World
by THERMAL
Andy Moor / John Butcher / Thomas Lehn
Lights
John Tilbury / John Butcher / Thomas Lehn
Elusive
Hannah Marshall / Steve Beresford / John Butcher / Mark Sanders
News
The Spontaneous Music Festival in Poznan was a great 3 days at the start of September. I played solo, duo (with Ståle Liavik Solberg), trio (with Mark Wastell & Phil Durrant) and in a 10-piece
Here’s a photo (by Wojciech Idźkowski) of the large group playing Dragon 10 - a piece I organised for the last night.
Mark Wastell & Anna Jędrzejewska out of shot.
And here's a Jazzpress review - pg 90-93 - by Mateusz Sroczyński
To mark hitting 70 this coming October I’ve been fortunate to be able to curate two 3-night residencies - in Berlin and London.
I’ll be playing with both long-term and new friends and colleagues in 2 different sets each night.
Berlin 12-14 September at km 28
with: Magda Mayas, Xavier Charles, Axel Dörner, Tony Buck, Liz Allbee, Emilio Gordoa, Angharad Davies, Andrea Neumann, Burkhard Beins & Werner Dafeldecker
London 24-25 October at Café Oto
with: Sophie Agnel, Rhodri Davies, Mark Sanders, Angharad Davies, Isabelle Duthois, Ståle Liavik Solberg & Pat Thomas
Photo: Patsy Bennett - late 1970s.
Two articles PT1 & PT2 by lya Belorukov looking at some of my CDs - mainly involving electronics performers alongside acoustic - from 1998 to 2023. In Russian - but most browsers will translate it.
Work with Thomas Lehn, Gino Robair, Matthew Shipp, Andy Moor, Rhodri Davies, Pat Thomas, Angharad Davies, Lina Lapelyte, Lee Patterson, Phil Minton, Cor Fuhler, Erhard Hirt, Eddie Prévost, John Tilbury, Christian Wolf, Ute Kanngiesser, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Christopher Fox, Langham Research Centre & Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, Polwechsel, Christof Kurzmann, Gino Robair, dieb13, Pat Thomas, Ståle Liavik Solberg, Sharon Gal, David Toop, Furt, Steve Beresford, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, Akio Suzuki, The Contest of Pleasures, Liz Allbee, Mart Zapparoli, Ignaz Schick,
An interview by Rihards T. Endriksons - and a preview of three upcoming releases.
The Very Fabric (see above)
And 2 new LPs - on ni vu vi connu - due out in September 2024
Lower Marsh - duos with Angharad Davies, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders & John Edwards
Unlockings - quartet with Angharad Davies, Pat Thomas, Mark Sanders
Ni Vu Ni Connu LP series
A 5-LP set - with silkscreened, gatefold sleeves designed by Yaqin Si (pictured).
Concert photos by Cristina Marx and sleeve-notes by Stuart Broomer Now available at NI VU NI CONNU.
Four were recorded at my ausland weekend in 2019.
Gino Robair & Thomas Lehn,
Sophie Agnel,
Magda Mayas & Tony Buck,
Liz Allbee, Ignaz Schick & Marta Zapparoli.
The 5th is with Polwechsel colleagues
Burkhard Beins & Werner Dafeldecker.
All About Jazz - Foxy Digitalis - Point of Departure
Fluid Fixations
Fluid Fixations was premiered at the HCMF on 21/11/2021.
John Butcher - composer / saxophones / saxophone recordings
Sophie Agnel- piano
Isabelle Duthois - voice / clarinet
Liz Allbee - trumpet | Matthias Müller - trombone
Aleksander Kolkowski - stroh viola / musical saw
Angharad Davies - violin | Hannah Marshall - cello
John Edwards - double bass
Pascal Niggenkemper - double bass
dieb13 - turntables | Pat Thomas - electronics
Ståle Liavik Solberg - drums
Mark Sanders - percussion
Read details and an interview.
Visit Fluid Fixations / John Butcher + 13
The Turn Things Take
During lockdown in 2021 the arts-centre West in Den Haag has been invited musicians to contribute filmed pieces for an online project. I made The Turn Things Take for soprano saxophone.
In contrast to the expansiveness of Resonant Spaces it was a look “inside”.
Concerts 2024
15 June - London
with Okkyung Lee & John Edwards
+ Eunyoung Kim & Jun Young Song
Café Oto, London
24 June - London
with Sharon Gal & John Edwards
Café Oto, London
28 June - London
Trio with Mark Wastell & Phil Durrant
Horse Club, Christchurch, Blackfriars, London
30 June - Cambridge
Trio with Mark Wastell & Phil Durrant
Soundhunt, Thrive Café, Cambridge
Guesting with the Anthony Moore Trio
3 July - Hastings
The Pig, Hastings
4 July - London
Café Oto, London
7 July - London
Last Dream of the Morning - with John Edwards & Mark Sanders
Café Oto, London
12 July - Lublin
Last Dream of the Morning - with John Edwards & Mark Sanders
Lublin Jazz Festival, Lublin, Poland
14 July - London - 1pm
Horse Orchestra
Maggie Nicols, Steve Beresford, Adam Bohman, Sue Lynch, Adrian Northover, John Butcher, Caroline Kraabel, Hutch Demouilpied, John Edwards, Benedict Taylor, Steve Noble & Sharon Gal
Iklectika 24, Colour Factory, Hackney, London
18 July - Oxford
Trio with Mark Wastell & Phil Durrant
Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, Oxford
25 July - London
duo with Benedict Thomas
Forest Gate Improvisation, The Ciderhouse, E7 0JN
27 July - Nickelsdorf
with Chris Corsano & Florian Stoffner
Konfrontationen, Nickelsdorf, Austria
11 September - London
Trio with Mark Wastell & Phil Durrant
This is part of John Stevens - Another Little Life
"A four part event, celebrating the memory of drummer, band leader, educator, artist and free improvising pioneer John Stevens (10 June 1940 - 13 September 1994)"
Café Oto, London
3 day Berlin residency
12 September - Berlin
1. duo with Magda Mayas
2. The Contest of Pleasures (Butcher / Charles / Dörner)
13 September - Berlin
1. duo with Tony Buck
2. trio with Liz Allbee & Emilio Gordoa
14 September - Berlin
1. duo with Angharad Davies
2. quartet with Andrea Neumann, Burkhard Beins & Werner Dafeldecker
km28, Berlin, Germany
duo with Ståle Liavik Solberg
17 September - Copenhagen
Klubb Primi, Copenhagen, Denmark
18 September - Gothenburg
BrÖtz, Gotheburg, Sweden
The Contest of Pleasures
(Butcher / Charles / Dörner)
22 September - Lille, France
Le Jardin Ecologique, Boulevard Robert Schuman, Lille
23 September - Metz
Saint-Maximin Church, Metz, France
Leaflight (with Ute Wasserman & Martin Blume)
26 September - Bremen
MIB, Bremen, Gernmany
27 September - Cologne
Loft, Cologne, Germany
28 September - Bochum
Kunstmuseum, Bochum, Germany
Spontaneous Music Festival
4 October - Poznan
solo
5 October - Poznan
trio with Phil Durrant & Mark Wastell
6 October - Poznan
duo with Ståle Liavik Solberg & Large Group
Spontaneous Music Festival, Dragon Social Club, Poznan, Poland
Vilnius Fixations
19 October - Vilnius
with Isabelle Duthois, Ståle Liavik Solberg, Angharad Davies, dieb13, Liudas Mockunas and students from the Lithuanian Academy of Music.
Vilnius Jazz Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
3 day Cafe Oto residency
24 October - London
duo with Sophie Agnel
duo with Rhodri Davies
25 October - London
solo
duo with Gino Robair
quartet with Angharad Davies, Sophie Agnel & Mark Sanders
26 October - London
duo with Isabelle Duthois
trio with Pat Thomas & Ståle Liavik Solberg
quartet with Isabelle Duthois, Pat Thomas & Ståle Liavik Solberg
Cafe Oto, London
trio with Dominic Lash & Emil Carlsen
28 October - Bristol
Cafe Kino, Bristol
29 October - Merthyr Tydfil
SHIFT Merthyr Tydfil
2 November - Ealing
Ad-Lib, Ealing, London
9 November - Cambridge
trio with Phil Wachsmann & Mark Sanders
Listen, Unitarian Church, Cambridge
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
16 November - Huddersfiled
In Lina Lapalyte’s Study of Slopes
Town Hall, hcmf, Huddersfield
18 November - Huddersfield
Common Objects
Bates Mill Studio, hcmf, Huddersfield
duo with Ståle Liavik Solberg
20 November - Stockholm
FRIM, Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden
21 November - Berlin
Sowieso, Berlin, Germany
Xavier Charles duo
28 November - Stavanger
Bjergstedfestivalen, TOU, Stavanger, Norway
The Contest of Pleasures
(Butcher / Charles / Dörner)
29 November - Bergen
Gyldenpris Kunsthall, Jazzfestivalen, Bergen, Norway
30 November - Tonsberg
Nonfigurativ Musikk, Tonsberg, Norway
1 December - Trondheim
Fri Form, Trondheim Norway
with Harald Kimmig, Daniel Studer & Alfred Zimmerlin
3 December - Zürich
Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zürich, Switzerland
4 December - Freiberg
Elisabeth Schneider Stiftung, Freiberg, Germany
5 December - Cologne
Loft, Köln, Germany
7 December - Wiesbaden
art.ist, Wiesbaden, Germany
8 December - Münster
Black Box, Münster, Germany
with Pat Thomas, Dominic Lash & Steve Noble
11 December - London
Vortex, London
Playlist
1. Jennifer Allum, John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Eddie Prévost - from Sounds of Assembly.
2. Matthew Shipp, Thomas Lehn, John Butcher - from The Clawed Stone.
3. John Butcher - from Invisible Ear.
4. John Butcher, Phil Durrant, Paul Lovens, Radu Malfatti, John Russell - from News from the Shed.
5. John Butcher - from Resonant Spaces.
6. Barre Phillips, John Butcher, Ståle Liavik Solberg - from We met - and then.
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