Improvised Music from Japan / Discography

John Butcher

Resonant Spaces

(Confront, confront 17) (UK) (CD)

  1. Sympathetic Magic (stone) (7:49)
  2. Calls from a Rusty Cage (7:28)
  3. Wind Piece (3:09)
  4. Floating Cult (6:15)
  5. Close by, a Waterfall (6:10)
  6. New Scapa Flow (6:19)
  7. Styptic (3:24)
  8. Frost Piece (2:17)
  9. Sympathetic Magic (metal) (5:49)

John Butcher: feedback tenor saxophone (1), feedback soprano saxophone (9), acoustic tenor saxophone (6, 7), acoustic soprano saxophone (2, 4), amplified/feedback soprano saxophone (3, 8), acoustic/amplified/feedback soprano saxophone (5)

Recorded by Ruari Cormack at Standing Stones of Stenness, Orkney, June 20, 2006 (3); at Lyness Oil Tank, Hoy, Orkney, June 21, 2006 (6, 9); at Smoo Cave, Durness, Scotland, June 23, 2006 (5, 7); at Tugnet Ice House, Spey Bay, Scotland, June 25, 2006 (8); at Wormit Reservoir, Fife, Scotland, June 28, 2006 (2); and at Hamilton Mausoleum, South Lanarkshire, Scotland, June 29, 2006 (1, 4)
Color photos by Bryony McIntyre, Keiko Yoshida, Garrard Martin, and Iain Lindsay
Design by Domien Beaton
Includes liner notes in English by Barry Esson and Biba Kopf

Released in 2008