Chris Corsano / John Butcher / Florian Stoffner
Café Oto by Sean Kelly - 2025
Formed in May 2022, with very little playing between the members previously (Butcher had played once with each of the other two).
So .. a New ! trio was born.
Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen 2024 - Freistil
Butcher, the great stylist among saxophonists conjures up sound figures of exceptional beauty. Corsano's drumming is always masterful and Stoffner's original guitar interjections are almost constantly pleasing. A lesson in poetry and masterly precision mechanics.
Braids is the song of abandoned, derelict machinery, slowly come to life. A choir of neglected robots struggling to repair themselves. A trio of improvisers who seem to be playing in a room just around the corner. And when you think you’ve found them, they’ve moved on like ghosts to another space, their music emanating from an enticingly inaccessible realm.
Point of Departure - Chris Robinson
The Glass Changes Shape
CD in 4 panel cardboard sleeve
CHRIS CORSANO: Drums & Half Clarinet
JOHN BUTCHER: Saxophones
FLORIAN STOFFNER: Guitar
1. The Necessary Temperament 3.56
2. Territorial Songbirds 6.17
3. Terminal Buzz 7:43
4. Wrinkled Shuffle 5:17
5. Hidden Bell 12:18
6. Disaster Laugh 3:24
7. Gentle Wiring 3:09
8. Homer’s Lizard 6:40
9. Mid-Signal 4:47
16 September 2023
Loft, Köln
Recorded: Christian Heck
Mixed: John Butcher
Cover: “Finished Painting - 2023” by Joe Williamson
Trio photo by Ingrid Bruant
Design: SPl@T!
Relative Pitch
RPR 1207
Braids
CD in 4 panel cardboard sleeve
CHRIS CORSANO: Drums & Half Clarinet
JOHN BUTCHER: Saxophones
FLORIAN STOFFNER: Guitar
1. Soft Geometry 07:26
2. The Zoo Is Next Door 05:22
3. Little Secrets taken To Our Graves 06:18
4. Gneis 05:49
5. Charlatans Selling Miracles 08:15
6. Smaller Infinities 11:36
7. Elegant Frost 04:12
May 22, 2022
Le Singe, Biel
Recorded: Andy Neresheimer
Mixing: John Butcher;
Mastered: Michael Brändli.
Executive producer : Werner X. Uehlinger
Ezz-Thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
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