Music from United Kingdom

Five tracks from 2002 recorded live in Japan by Tetuzi Akiyama. The first four feature Butcher solo on tenor or soprano sax, and were recorded at the Oya Stone Museum. The final track is a 20-minute duet with Toshimaru Nakimura on no-imput mixing board, recorded at Super Deluxe. Released in 2004, this is the first release on Butcher's Weight of Wax labe

Two of the most adventurous musicians around today, John Butcher and John Edwards have been working as a very compatible duo for some years now. This CD contains concert performances from Brussels and Barcelona. 59 minutes -- previously unissued.

John Butcher - tenor/soprano saxophones with Eddie Prévost - tam-tam and other percussion. Studio recordings from July, 2005.

Late-night improvisation captured on a stormy November evening in an old church during the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. John Butcher's soprano and tenor saxophones intertwine with Xavier Charles' clarinet and Axel Dörner's trumpet across 51 minutes of remarkable sustained exploration that stands as one of the defining documents of contemporary European improvised music. Tempestuous moves between the poles of calm and urgency that the setting might suggest, with the trio navigat…

Test the ears and patience of yr so called 'friends' -- the trained (operatic) vocalizings of ms. mackness dance and squeak around the flutter-scronk of mr. butcher (he of long-standing brit-free improv fame). Pure frontal-excursion, quiet and slippery.

Saxophonist John Butcher and violinist Phil Durrant had been playing together on the English improv scene in various formations for 14 years when they decided to start a live electroacoustic project in 1997, a project not unlike Evan Parker's own unit at the same time. The Butcher/Durrant duo released a first CD, Secret Measures, on Wobbly Rail, recorded live at the beginning of the experiment. Requests and Antisongs is a studio performance taped in January and February 2000, over two years late…

John Butcher appeared on six records, beginning with the 1984 LP 'Fonetiks, before he first released 'Thirteen Friendly Numbers' on his own Acta label in 1992. But the disc is still something of a debut; it is the first document of his peculiar language for solo saxophone, which he had fashioned by purging his vocabulary of the instrument's familiar sounds and jazz-associated gestures, and filling the space with carefully selected sounds located at the periphery of instrumental control. Butcher'…

Though saxophonist John Butcher is not short on instrumental prowess, his primary assets lie in the realm of ideas. On Fixations, Butcher has rejected conventional jazz thinking (swing, melodicism, harmonic cycles) in favor of creating his own personal language of improvisation. As Butcher puts it in the liner notes, "...improvisation can only make sense when it is somehow connected to the hope of finding, spontaneously, some music you don't really know about beforehand." So the pursuit of a…

Chamber works and songs by Harrison Birtwistle (1998-2011): two sets of Lorine Niedecker settings, the Trio and Bogenstrich, played by Till Fellner, Lisa Batiashvili, Adrian Brendel, Amy Freston and Roderick Williams, recorded at the Herkulessaal, Munich.

Another three grand pianists on three grand pianos. Howard Riley and Keith Tippett have recorded several piano duos in the past, but the addition of John Tilbury coming from another background gives these eight trio improvisations a unique flavour. 66 minutes.

Duo recital by Thomas Zehetmair (violin) and Ruth Killius (viola) with works by Scelsi, Holliger, Bartók, Skalkottas, Maxwell Davies, Martinů, Rainer Killius and Nied. Recorded May 2009 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.

Dekorder is proud to release a brand new and very limited release by The Hafler Trio aka Andrew McKenzie from Iceland. This is the 2nd release in a series of 10"s for Dekorder (the 1st is sold out). McKenzie is one of the most influential sound artists of the last 20 years and has recorded for Touch, Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Die Stadt as well as transforming the voices of Jonsi Birgisson (Sigur Ros), Blixa Bargeld, Michael Gira, Bjork, David Tibet (Current 93) and collaborating with Autechre amon…

Organ works by Arvo Pärt, Peter Maxwell Davies and Philip Glass played by Christopher Bowers-Broadbent, recorded in October 1990 at the Grossmünster, Zürich, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Michael Mantler's 1988 WATT song cycle on poems by Beckett, Soupault and Meister, sung by Jack Bruce, Marianne Faithfull and Robert Wyatt with the Danish Concert Radio Orchestra and Rick Fenn (guitar), recorded in 1987 in Copenhagen, London, Willow NY and Boston.

John Surman (saxophones, clarinets, piano) with his trio of Chris Laurence and John Marshall and a seven-piece brass section conducted by John Warren. Recorded April 1992 at Angel Studios, London; produced by Surman and Steve Lake.