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• Until the Night Melts Away - CD in 4 page cardboard cover - no DL

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  SHARON GAL / JOHN BUTCHER / DAVID TOOP
  
  Until the Night Mets Away - 36 min
  
  John Butcher - Saxophone
  
  Sharon Gal - Voice, electronics, bells, objects
  
  David Toop - Lap steel guitar, flutes, bass recorder,
  African chordophone, objects
  
  Released on Shrike.
  Recorded by Paul Skinner at Café OTO, London - 16th April 2019.
  
  "The 36-minute recording begins with Gal’s quiet sound of bells, extended breathing techniques of Butcher, and distant and sustained lap steel guitar lines, and soon these sparse sounds feel like melting into each’s other, sketching an imaginary, leisured and breezy scenery. Slowly, Butcher, Gal and Toop expand this delicate and suggestive sonic envelope in unpredictable ways and with imaginative sounds - subtle electronics and feedbacks, bubbling breaths, exotic flutes and resonating percussive objects, but maintain the collective trio sound. Gal acts like she was possessed by an enigmatic shamanic spell with her wordless vocalizations, processed voice and assorted bells, while Butcher’s brief and urgent blows on the sax and Toop’s noisy and distorted sounds build the tension.
  
  But even in the most abstract and almost silent segments, Butcher, Gal and Toop operated in mysterious and poetic ways, always attentive to every gesture but letting the sounds and their fragile dynamics lead them all. The interplay becomes more intense and fierce only in the last minutes of this improvisation when Gal’s processed shouts collide with the tortured breaths of Butcher and the distorted lap steel guitar sounds of Toop. But, surprisingly, Gal opted to conclude this arresting improvisation with an emotional, caressing touch, beautifully answered by Butcher and Toop."
  Free Jazz Blog - Eyal Hareuveni
  
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