John Butcher - tenor or soprano saxophone
Fred Lonberg-Holm - cello
Michael Zerang - percussion

Recorded - 20 March 2001 at Airwave Studios, Chicago
Engineer - John McCortney
Mixed by Zerang, Lonberg-Holm, McCortney

editor's info:

What happens when two of Chicago's most creative avant-garde musicians collaborate with a similarly iconoclastic player from London? Fireworks ensue. Better, yet, the new threesome produces some of the most provocative, intriguing and musically rewarding improvisations one might hope to encounter on either side of the Atlantic.
Butcher's phenomenally virtuosic soprano work drove the music making, and he has developed techniques and sonorities that no one else has. With effects that seem to defy the presumed limitations of the instrument, Butcher could hardly have been a more magnetic soloist. Yet, for the most part, his lightning configurations were played not as solos but alongside comparably fluid statements from his partners. Lonberg-Holm outdid himself, playing passages every bit as ornate, original and idiosyncratic as Butcher's. Zerang's percussion combined traditional stick technique with novel hand-on-drum effects that drew a surprising breadth of timbre from the kit. This was music rich in incident and intricate in instrumental detail, fearlessly improvised yet meticulously controlled.
-CHICAGO TRIBUNE review of Candlestick Maker concert (March 2002) - Howard Reich

Rafał Księżyk (Antena Krzyku 2/2003):
Musica Genera to nie tylko czołowy w skali światowej festiwal muzyki improwizowanej odbywający się co roku w Szczecinie i jedna z bardziej kreatywnych polskich agencji koncertowych. To także oficyna wydawnicza publikująca nagrania pierwszej ligi improwizatorów. Esencjonalnym przykładem ta płyta zapis spotkania kapitalnego londyńskiego saksofonisty Butchera oraz dwóch filarów chicagowskiej awangardy – wiolonczelisty Londberg-Holma i perkusisty Zeranga. Chicagowskie emanacje, tak dziś modne w swym postrockowym wydaniu, tutaj dobiegają z głębszych rejonów wtajemniczenia. To intuicyjne muzyczne dialogi trzech wybitnych instrumentalistów – improwizatorów. Zdają się prowadzić w przestrzeń zagadkowego, intymnego rytuału, który w totalnym otwarciu na brzmienie dalece wykracza poza ramy jazzowej swobody. Mikrodźwiękowe medytacje zniewalające organiczną celebracją dźwięku.

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What happens when two of Chicago's most creative avant-garde musicians collaborate with a similarly iconoclastic player from London? Fireworks ensue. Better, yet, the new threesome produces some of the most provocative, intriguing and musically rewarding improvisations one might hope to encounter on either side of the Atlantic.
Butcher's phenomenally virtuosic soprano work drove the music making, and he has developed techniques and sonorities that no one else has. With effects that seem to defy the presumed limitations of the instrument, Butcher could hardly have been a more magnetic soloist. Yet, for the most part, his lightning configurations were played not as solos but alongside comparably fluid statements from his partners. Lonberg-Holm outdid himself, playing passages every bit as ornate, original and idiosyncratic as Butcher's. Zerang's percussion combined traditional stick technique with novel hand-on-drum effects that drew a surprising breadth of timbre from the kit. This was music rich in in.......
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