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DIGITAL RELEASES "THE MEMORY OF LIVE MUSIC". A series of monthly albums containing previously unreleased concert music - compiled since March 2020. #8 First Meeting - wow DL11 info & DL Eli Keszler - drums John Butcher - saxophones In concert at Café: Oto -2018. #7 Scene and Recalled - wow DL10 info & DL John Edwards - double bass John Butcher - saxophones Two sets - Café: Oto (2009) and Red Rose Club (1999). #6 At Kafé Hærverk - wow DL09 info & DL Kaja Draksler - piano John Butcher - saxophones Ståle Liavik Solberg - drums & percussion Live at Blow Out, Kafé Hærverk, Oslo - 2019. #5 Stovelit Lines - wow DL08 info & DL Thurston Moore - electric guitar Terry Day - drums John Edwards - double bass John Butcher - saxophones Steve Beresford - piano & electronics Live at Iklectic, London - 2017. "The group seems to leap out, a full-blown, one-time band that ought to be legendary, producing music that is filled with mysteries, mysteries of source, direction and meaning that are filled with diverse kinds of resonance." ... FREE JAZZ BLOG - Stuart Broomer free jazz blog | dusted #4 At CAVE 12 - wow DL07 info & DL John Butcher - saxophones Rhodri Davies - electric harp Live at Cave 12, Geneva, Switzerland - 2004. #3 Japanese Duets - wow DL06 info & DL John Butcher - saxophones Rhodri Davies - lever harp, bows, preparations, and e-bows Live in Tokyo, Fukushima, Sendai and Chiba - 2004. "There's a bittersweetness about Japanese Duets that's as pungent as the puckered, perfectly placed reports that English saxophonist John Butcher sometimes punches out of his horns." .... DUSTED - Bill Meyer dusted #2 Live in Italy - wow DL05 info & DL John Butcher - saxophones Riccardo La Foresta - drummophone and percussion Live in Padove and Staranzano - 2019. #1 On Being Observed - wow DL04 info & DL Solo saxophone performances from 2000-2006. Inside the giant Oberhausen Gazometer. Outside the Bop Shop in Rochester, NY. Live at the Glasgow International Jazz Festival. Inside Southampton's 12th century Castle Vault. Made to Measure - wow DL03 info & DL A collection of John Butcher's compositions (1998 - 2017) for multiple saxophones, feedback, futurist intonaroumori, historic sound files and more. Freedom and Sound - wow DL02 info & free DL An illustrated pdf (english, french, german) of Butcher's 2011 essay "Freedom and Sound - this time it's personal" Plus 3 solo pieces (35 min) originally given to fundraising compilations. Resonant Spaces - wow DL01 info & DL Originally released on CD & LP. Location solo recordings from Scotland and the Orkney Islands - 2006. Includes a 16 page PDF with tour photos plus essays by Biba Kopf and Stuart Broomer. "Everything about this release is beautiful and intriguing: the music, the photographs, the notes and the story they tell." Dusted ATTN:magazine | Radio Free Midwich | WIRE | Dusted | Point of Departure all about jazz | Jazz Word | soundofmusic (SE) | Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (D) CD RELEASES On Air - wow 05 order CD Studio session recorded for BBC Radio 3 "Jazz on 3" - May 2012. THE APOPHONICS John Edwards - bass John Butcher- saxophones Gino Robair - energised surfaces & synth all about jazz ( 1 ) ( 2 ) | london jazz | free jazz | improv.hu | the LIST | dusted Fires Were Set.... Scrutables - wow 04 order CD Previously unavailable 2000 studio session. Derek Bailey - guitar John Butcher - saxophones Gino Robair - energised surfaces New York City Jazz Review | The Squid's Ear all about jazz | Sunday Times | Point of Departure | Paris Transatlantic | freq almosthenics.... Invisible Ear - wow 03 order CD Reissue of the long out-of-print "fringes" 2003 limited issue. John Butcher - saxophones; acoustic, close-miked, amplified, feedbacking. Solo and multitracked. Sleeve notes by David Toop. Musicworks | Stylus | Dusted | Squid's Ear | Paris Transatlantic all about jazz | Cyclic Defrost | Jazz Mann What Remains.... somethingtobesaid - wow 02 order CD JOHN BUTCHER GROUP - live at the 2008 HCMF. Chris Burn - piano / John Butcher - saxophones & pre-recordings Gino Robair - percussion / John Edwards - bass Thomas Lehn - synth / Dieb 13 - turntables Clare Cooper - harp/guzheng / Adam Linson - bass & electronic processing. .. 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. WIRE | Point of Departure | Cyclic Defrost | horrible heaven | jazzmann somethingtobesaid.... Cavern with Nightlife - wow 01 order CD TWO CONCERTS recorded on tour in Japan, November 2002. John Butcher: Solo in the extraordinary acoustic of the Oya Stone Mountain, Utsunomiya. Toshimaru Nakamura & John Butcher: Their first meeting, at Super Deluxe Roppongi, Tokyo. Thanks to Hisashi Terauchi. Dusted | One Final Note | WIRE | Sandszine (IT) contact: Weight of Wax