Otoroku: DS030
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/apophonics-271113-dl/
* John Butcher : saxophones
* John Edwards : double bass
* Gino Robair : energised surfaces
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/
http://www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/medwards.html
http://www.ginorobair.com/
Recorded live by Kate Arnold at Café Oto, London, on November 27, 2013.
Mixed by John Butcher.
Mastered by James Dunn.
Review
By Geoff Winston
http://www.londonjazznews.com/2013/12/review-apophonics-at-cafe-oto.html
The Apophonics gave a captivating recital at Cafe Oto on 27 November. John
Butcher (saxes), John Edwards (bass) and Gino Robair (percussion) dived into a
liminal, marginal zone.
Butcher fluttered the keys, tapped the top of the tenor sax, found feedback,
flicked in and out of jazz, blasted the soprano sax. Edwards revealed gems in
the bits of the stand-up bass that don't always get played, used the bow to
describe tension as well as facilitate it, left it stuck in the strings - made
crunchy, searing sounds. Robair, with the prestidigitateur's sleight of hand,
waved cloths over the cymbals, dropped them on to the toms, clinked the floor,
blew on to the drum kit, manhandled and bowed a misshapen metal sheet, swapped
fine sticks for hands.
The trio gave the impression of electrons bouncing off each other in
controlled, near-random activity - each maintaining its shape and integrity,
irrespective of the velocity or scale of impact of individual collisions.
Here are few sketches done at the time.
