Immediate Landscapes by Akio Suzuki & John Butcher

Akio Suzuki:
pebbles, glass plate, sponge, pocket bottle, voice ANALAPOS, brass plate, cardboard box, wood screws, bamboo stick, metal plate, noise whistle, swizzle sticks

John Butcher:
tenor and soprano saxophones (amplified on 1)

"In June 2006, Arika, an Edinburgh arts group, organized Resonant Spaces, a tour through various isolated sites in Scotland and the Orkneys where sound artist Akio Suzuki and saxophonist John Butcher, individually and together, would interact sonically with some highly unusual environments, both natural and human-made: a cave, a windy beach, a reservoir, a mausoleum, an oil tank.
John Butcher released a CD of his own pieces in 2008 as Resonant Spaces, one of the most remarkable documents of improvising in strange places.

Immediate Landscapes presents five pieces from the 2006 tour by Butcher and Suzuki together, as well as a piece from the 2015 Ftarri Festival in Tokyo.

Each of the tour pieces is a kind of complex sonic diagramming, the musicians interacting at once with the shifting possibilities of each site as well as one another’s materials.

The 33 minutes of strange Scottish places is balanced by the 27-minute duet from the SuperDeluxe night club (Suzuki’s instruments include swizzle sticks), with the two intently focused on developing an improvised duet in which the focus is on their own sound production. It’s a witty and mysterious collective adventure in which two masters create their own space."

Taken from Stuart Broomer's review at Free Jazz Blog: https://www.freejazzblog.org/2017/11/akio-suzuki-john-butcher-immediate.html

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

johnbutcher.org.uk