John Butcher
@jbernieb
Playing two concerts at Oto next week with Last Dream of the Morning (me, John Edwards & Mark Sanders). Cath Roberts will be joining us on electronics for the 2nd night. Tues 15 & Wed 16 July. cafeoto.co.uk/events/last-dr…
Last October the WIRE published a 6 page "primer" looking at around 25 of my releases from 1984 to now. I'm grateful to Seymour Wright who took on the listening and writing challenge. I've just made it available as a free download here: johnbutcher.org.uk/downloads/Wire…
John Butcher, Sound Bureau improvised music series, Streatham Hill, south London, 10 April 2025
The Contest of Pleasures is 25 years old. I'm happy to say we have 3 concerts in Norway. 29 November - Bergen 30 November - Tonsberg 1 December - Trondheim Xavier & I will also play a duo - 28 November in Stavanger. Photo: at hcmf - Francis Comyn
Heading to the Vilnius Jazz Festival tomorrow to rehearse "Vilnius Fixation" with the Improdimensija Orchestra and 4 members of it's first incarnation as "Fluid Fixations" - commissioned by hcmf. vilniusjazz.lt/2024/performer… @hcmfuk @vilniusjazz
We have an exciting array of residencies coming up this October at OTO: - Fred Frith - John Butcher - Otomo Yoshihide's Special Big Band - Ghosted Tickets & details at cafeoto.co.uk/events
I seem to have been doing this for quite a while..... October 24, 25, 26 at Cafe Oto. I'll be joined by Sophie Agnel, Rhodri Davies, Gino Robair, Mark Sanders, Angharad Davies, Isabelle Duthois, Ståle Liavik Solberg & Pat Thomas ! - cafeoto.co.uk/events/john-bu…
Thanks to Peter Margasak for this preview of last week's Berlin concerts and his look at recent LPs - including the 2 new ones featuring Pat Thomas, Angharad Davies, Mark Sanders and John Edwards. photo: Cristina Marx/photomusix petermargasak.substack.com/p/tones-that-s…
I feel fortunate to release another 2 LPs on the ni vu ni connu label - recorded at the sadly lost Iklectik, with Angharad Davies, Mark Sanders, Pat Thomas & John Edwards. nivuniconnu.bandcamp.com/album/unlockin… nivuniconnu.bandcamp.com/album/lower-ma…
It's a slightly unsettling feeling to see 40 years of music laid out like this. But I greatly appreciate Seymour Wright writing about these records in the new Wire. And special thanks to the many remarkable musicians I was fortunate to collaborate with. thewire.co.uk/issues/488
On October 24-26 I'll be joined by some of my favourite musicians for a 3 night residency at Café Oto. Pat Thomas, Rhodri Davies, Sophie Agnel, Isabelle Duthoit, Ståle Liavik Solberg, Angharad Davies & Mark Sanders! cafeoto.co.uk/events/john-bu… photo: Dawid Laskowski
10 days time at Café OTO. A chance to hear Last Dream of the Morning's (Butcher/Edwards/Sanders) first gig of the year ..... "so much are they as one with a sonic unity, a metaphor for a different kind of society" Morning Star. Sunday, 7 July. cafeoto.co.uk/events/last-dr…
In June 24/06/24 @Cafeoto with John Butcher @jbernieb & John Edwrds Solo, Duo & Trio cafeoto.co.uk/events/john-bu… #freeimprovisation #freeimprovisationmusic #experimental #experimentalmusic #johnbutcher #johnedwards #extendedtechniques #sound #cafeoto
Fimav - Victoriaville - Duo with Sophie Agnel " We savour the finest, most crystalline, most personal, most astonishing sounds, which interweave and induce different states. The acoustic noise, the luxuriant harmonics, the roughness, the finesse, life in all its corners." PanM360
Christ Church - Saint James (2011). Music by John Butcher. vimeo.com/60929527
Greatly looking forward to re-visiting the Victoriaville Festival in Quebec and playing with Sophie Agnel next Saturday. fimav.qc.ca/en/sophie-agne… photo: cristina marx / Photomusix #fimav #victoriaville
Fluid Fixations review in freejaazzblog by Eyal Hareuveni. Thanks. freejazzblog.org/.../john-butch…...
Sunday afternoon (28/4) at @hundredyearsgal with @jbernieb - Ecka Mordecai - @johnmacedo_ trio + @ReganBowering solo
I enjoyed the wonderfully bracing and restless exchanges between John Butcher and Rhodri Davies at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge last night, with my particular highlight being the skirling tenor saxophone dirge pitched against a tolling harp note in the second set.
Neural [#musicreview] @langhamresearch and @jbernieb – Six Hands at an Open Door - CD – Persistence of Sound - neural.it/2024/02/langha… #electronica #experimental