On Air, by The Apophonics

On Air

by The Apophonics

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	1.	fires were set 36:12
	2.	met by moonlight 07:56
	3.	london melodies 04:39

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John Butcher - saxophones
John Edwards - double bass
Gino Robair - energised surfaces and synth

"The band's name is a pun on the word "apophenia" which means seeing patterns where there are none.
What this trio does, is of course totally outside, or even beyond the concept of pattern. Their music emerges, evolves spontaneously, eddies around each other's interventions, flows forward in unexpected directions, and grows as much as it shrinks at times, with environments changing from stretched tones to moments of short bursts of stuttering voices, intense mini-sounds to amplify silence, birds chattering as if at war, industrial sounds suddenly a welcoming change.

But again, these are images, these are ideas, thought patterns conjured up in the listener's brain. The real thing, the true thing, are just the sounds, unique, meaningless, patternless, unlinked except for the interaction of three men, and those three men themselves put themselves completely at the service of the sounds, vibrating, resonating, echoing, screeching, sizzling, scraping ... going through waves of intensity and volume.

The end result is astounding, because of its effect, its coherence, its inherent beauty."
FREE JAZZ BLOG - Stef.

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released July 10, 2017

Recorded: 2012, Phoenix Studios, Pinewood, London, England.
Cover photo by Andy Moor.

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John Butcher London, UK

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

johnbutcher.org.uk

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