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Title:  Tincture Artist:  John Butcher, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Zerang -Various Artists Label:  Musica Genera Format:  CD Price:  € 13.00   Mp3 samples:   1   2

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What happens when two of Chicago's most creative avant-garde musicians collaborate with a similarly iconoclastic player from London? Fireworks ensue. Better, yet, the new threesome produces some of the most provocative, intriguing and musically rewarding improvisations one might hope to encounter on either side of the Atlantic.
Butcher's phenomenally virtuosic soprano work drove the music making, and he has developed techniques and sonorities that no one else has. With effects that seem to defy the presumed limitations of the instrument, Butcher could hardly have been a more magnetic soloist. Yet, for the most part, his lightning configurations were played not as solos but alongside comparably fluid statements from his partners. Lonberg-Holm outdid himself, playing passages every bit as ornate, original and idiosyncratic as Butcher's. Zerang's percussion combined traditional stick technique with novel hand-on-drum effects that drew a surprising breadth of timbre from the kit. This was music rich in incident and intricate in instrumental detail, fearlessly improvised yet meticulously controlled.

-CHICAGO TRIBUNE review of Candlestick Maker concert (March 2002) - Howard Reich

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