Carousel by Johnny Butler
”I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons.“
-Carl Jung (on behalf of the stone monument at Bollingen in Memories, Dreams, Reflections)
Tracklist
| 1. | Bowtie | 6:26 |
| 2. | Carousel | 5:45 |
| 3. | Two Clarinets | 5:54 |
| 4. | Momma Bear | 5:28 |
| 5. | Of Rose and Ice | 6:21 |
| 6. | Drum Solo | 7:05 |
| 7. | Stasis | 6:35 |
Credits
This album was recorded February-March 2011. Mastered by Colin Marston at MENEGROTH: The Thousand Caves, March 16, 2011.
All songs written, performed, and recorded on tenor saxophone in real time with no overdubs or samples by Johnny Butler.
Artwork and Design by Jake Nelson
License
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"After dabbling with resonances from John Coltrane and Miles Davis and enveloping his processed saxophone sound in cavernous reverb, Brooklyn-based Johnny Butler turns a polyphony of overdubbed horns (triggered by laptop) into Fritz Lang’s Metropolis machine." — DownBeat Magazine