(Free Improvisation) John Butcher, Rhodri Davies – Carliol - 2010, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

A wonderful set. As has generally been the case in recent years, the nature of their respective instruments, saxophone and harp, is almost entirely disguised, replaced by electronic tones, shudders and pings. More to the point, they’re paced beautifully, with great care assigned to timbre, volume and blending with each other. Butcher uses motors here a few times, presumably in his bell (?), heard to nice effect on “gallow gate”, all rapid clicks, like a mouse wearing metal sneakers is scurrying around his horn. Some of Davies’ more recent work has verged on the excessively ambient for my taste, but here there’s precisely the right amount of sand in the mix, not a trace of wooziness. The lengthier of the seven tracks, around nine to ten minutes, are especially rich; could’ve gone on longer. Even the Parker-esque explosion of sputters that Butcher lets loose on the final cut (an asynchronously recorded one) are well-positioned against Davies’ shimmers, the latter derived from an aeolian harp; here, two elements that might normally trouble me are juxtaposed so as to cancel out each others’ potentially aggravating characteristics (aggravating to me, that is)–rather fascinating how that works.

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PERFORMER "John Butcher/Rhodri Davies"
REM GENRE "EAI"
REM DATE 2010
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    TITLE "Garth Heads"
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    TITLE "Distant Leazes"
    INDEX 00 05:44:48
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    INDEX 01 00:00:00

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