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13 Friendly Numbers by John Butcher
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fave it Weird Jazz | Experimental
13 tracks | 46 minutes
Released Jun 2004
on UNSOUNDS
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 07:31 Buccinator's Outing lyrics BUY MP3 07:31 Buccinator's Outing lyrics "GIFT MP3" 07:31 Buccinator's Outing
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John Butcher's Seminal solo saxophone album that redifines the instrument. Sound is put under a microscope.
Bio / Background
John Butcher
13 Friendly Numbers
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's inspirations were as singular as his sounds. In musique concrete, he explains, "the actual source of the sound could change quite drastically within the course of a phrase of the music, and I was intrigued with trying to find ways of doing that on the saxophone." In "The Brittle Chance," for example, Butcher replicates the dynamic and textural shifts of 50s and 60s electronic music by nimbly switching between multiphonics and fluttering, high-frequency tones.
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