Okkyung Lee + John Edwards + John Butcher
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Thu 21 February 2013 // 20:00
(Thu 21 Feb / 8pm / £8 door, £7 advance)
Trio and other formations from three formidable musicians who push their instruments into areas previously unimaginable and produce music of unparalleled nerve, drive and invention. Okkyung Lee, John Edwards and John Butcher have played together in all the duo formations (including a stunning new recording of Edwards and Lee on the Fataka label), but this is the first time all three of them have come together, and it promises to be a memorable combination.
Cellist Okkyung Lee is one of the most dynamic forces in improvised music today, a fearless and compelling musician whose playing incorporates a love of noise, extraordinary technique and elements from the outer fringes of contemporary composition. Originally from South Korea but now based in New York and Berlin, Lee has collaborated with many of the leading figures in creative music today, including Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Wadada Leo Smith, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Carlos Giffoni and Maja Rajtke. She has been chosen as the curator of the Music Unlimited festival in 2013.
John Edwards' staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Equally at home with fragile acoustic improvisation or driving free jazz, Edwards is quite deservedly one of the most in demand players of today, and has propelled encounters with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Matthew Shipp, Wadada Leo Smith and many more.
John Butcher is a saxophonist of rare grace and power, who has expanded the vocabulary of the saxophone far beyond the conventions of jazz and other musics, to encompass a staggering range of harmonics, multiphonics, overtones, percussive sounds, and electronic feedback. But his playing is far more than merely an array of special effects: it's characterised by an intensity that propels it into strange new places that are both incredibly beautiful and deeply exhilarating.
https://soundcloud.com/fataka/wcbw-iii-excerpt-edwards-lee
Trio and other formations from three formidable musicians who push their instruments into areas previously unimaginable and produce music of unparalleled nerve, drive and invention. Okkyung Lee, John Edwards and John Butcher have played together in all the duo formations (including a stunning new recording of Edwards and Lee on the Fataka label), but this is the first time all three of them have come together, and it promises to be a memorable combination.
Cellist Okkyung Lee is one of the most dynamic forces in improvised music today, a fearless and compelling musician whose playing incorporates a love of noise, extraordinary technique and elements from the outer fringes of contemporary composition. Originally from South Korea but now based in New York and Berlin, Lee has collaborated with many of the leading figures in creative music today, including Christian Marclay, Thurston Moore, Wadada Leo Smith, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Carlos Giffoni and Maja Rajtke. She has been chosen as the curator of the Music Unlimited festival in 2013.
John Edwards' staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Equally at home with fragile acoustic improvisation or driving free jazz, Edwards is quite deservedly one of the most in demand players of today, and has propelled encounters with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Matthew Shipp, Wadada Leo Smith and many more.
John Butcher is a saxophonist of rare grace and power, who has expanded the vocabulary of the saxophone far beyond the conventions of jazz and other musics, to encompass a staggering range of harmonics, multiphonics, overtones, percussive sounds, and electronic feedback. But his playing is far more than merely an array of special effects: it's characterised by an intensity that propels it into strange new places that are both incredibly beautiful and deeply exhilarating.
https://soundcloud.com/fataka/wcbw-iii-excerpt-edwards-lee