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Music on Seven Occasions

by John Butcher with nine duo partners and solo.

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Phlogisten 05:16
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Caloric 04:15
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Recorded 22 June 1997 by Myles Boisen. Guerrilla Recording, Oakland, CA , USA.
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Late Impromptu 03:46
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1st Singularity 03:25
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2nd Singularity 02:46
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Routemasters 04:31
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Sea They Think They Hear 03:38
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Gil Thread Dream 04:41
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Anomolies In The Customs Of The Day 07:19
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The Step Sequence 04:32
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The Late Approach 03:26
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The interior design 03:01
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The only way out 03:22
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3rd Singularity 02:47
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4th Singularity 02:29
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Cold that Bites 03:10
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Shadow Play 02:54
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Recorded 1 July 1997 by John Corbett. WNUR Studios, Evanston, IL, USA.
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Clackchat 05:41
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John Butcher in duos with:

Jeb Bishop (11)
John Corbett (10)
Alexander Frangenheim (3)
Terri Kapsalis (12)
Thomas Lehn (9)
Fred Lonberg-Holm (13)
Gino Robair (1, 2)
Veryan Weston (6, 7, 8)
Michael Zerang (16, 17, 18)

and Solo (4, 5, 14, 15).

First released on CD in 1999 on Meniscus.

Original liner notes.
Most of my releases involve musicians I've played with for many years, often in regular groups that have evolved quite special musical identities. "Music on Seven Occasions" is a look at the other side of improvising - the brief encounter.
I'm still amazed how it's possible to meet some musicians for the first time and to just play together. Evan, as with Michael Zerang at the enterprising WNUR radio station, at 11 o'clock in the morning.
Duos are often where this kind of thing works best, and when Jon Morgan offered a "Meniscus" CD I decided to choose a few similar situations.

The American pieces are taken from some of the meetings I had on 1997 US tour, and are all first time encounters - although the Chicago musicians and I had played together once or twice in larger group contexts.
The previous year Thomas Lehn and I had our only duo outing to date - at "Mopomoso", London's longest running free improvisation club.
Veryan Weston and Alexander Frangenheim are both musicians I know well, but whom I usually only meet in more extended company.
In the interest of not working to too clean a theme, a few short solos have crept in.
John Butcher - 1999.

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released July 28, 2019

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John Butcher London, UK

Improviser, Composer, Saxophonist.
Born in Brighton.
Lives in London.

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