artist: JOHN BUTCHER & RHODRI DAVIES
title: Carliol
label: Ftarri
country: Japan
format: CD
title: Carliol
label: Ftarri
country: Japan
format: CD
1. Pandon Bank (9:17)
2. Losh (5:01)
3. Gallow Gate (3:16)
4. Scrogg (1:58)
5. Ouse Poppy (9:17)
6. Garth Heads (5:44)
7. Distant Leazes (9:33)
John Butcher: tenor or soprano saxophones - plus feedback (1), motors (1, 3, 4), embedded
harp speaker (5)
Rhodri Davies: pedal harp, lever harp with embedded speaker and electric harp. Aeolian
electric harp (7)
John Butcher is one of the leading sax players on the free improvisation scene. Rhodri Davies
transcends conventional ideas about the harp - an instrument rarely associated with
improvised music - in his wide-ranging projects. The two British musicians have worked
together in a variety of contexts since 1997 and gave their first duo concert in 2000. As a duo
they toured the UK and the U.S. in 2002, and Japan in 2004. In their performances they draw
upon extended and unique playing methods mastered over the course of their careers,
leaving far behind the imagined limits of their respective instruments. Carliol contains 7
studio-recorded tracks between August 2007 and April 2009. With its multi-hued timbres and
textures, sonic beauty, conceptual freedom, experimental spirit and sophisticated structure,
this CD dazzles on many levels. While the 2001 album Vortices & Angels (on the UK label
Emanem) includes duo tracks by these two artists as well by Butcher and Derek Bailey, Carliol
is the first all Butcher/Davies duo album to be released since the start of their duo
collaboration a decade ago.
Packaged in a mini-LP jacket.
2. Losh (5:01)
3. Gallow Gate (3:16)
4. Scrogg (1:58)
5. Ouse Poppy (9:17)
6. Garth Heads (5:44)
7. Distant Leazes (9:33)
John Butcher: tenor or soprano saxophones - plus feedback (1), motors (1, 3, 4), embedded
harp speaker (5)
Rhodri Davies: pedal harp, lever harp with embedded speaker and electric harp. Aeolian
electric harp (7)
John Butcher is one of the leading sax players on the free improvisation scene. Rhodri Davies
transcends conventional ideas about the harp - an instrument rarely associated with
improvised music - in his wide-ranging projects. The two British musicians have worked
together in a variety of contexts since 1997 and gave their first duo concert in 2000. As a duo
they toured the UK and the U.S. in 2002, and Japan in 2004. In their performances they draw
upon extended and unique playing methods mastered over the course of their careers,
leaving far behind the imagined limits of their respective instruments. Carliol contains 7
studio-recorded tracks between August 2007 and April 2009. With its multi-hued timbres and
textures, sonic beauty, conceptual freedom, experimental spirit and sophisticated structure,
this CD dazzles on many levels. While the 2001 album Vortices & Angels (on the UK label
Emanem) includes duo tracks by these two artists as well by Butcher and Derek Bailey, Carliol
is the first all Butcher/Davies duo album to be released since the start of their duo
collaboration a decade ago.
Packaged in a mini-LP jacket.
