Angles of Enquiry
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credits
Max Eastely: arc - electroacoustic monochord, percussion, bird call
Terry Day: drums
John Butcher: saxophones
Recorded by Giovanni Le Rovere at Iklektic, London 27 September 2022
Thanks to Isa Ferri and Eduard Solaz
Drawing by Max Eastley
Design by Matthew Brandi
Produced by Mark Wastell
"It would be easy to focus on the personally and sonically idiosyncratic aspects of this recording. Given that it’s just one string on a block of wood Max Eastley’s monochord has a spectacularly flexible sound bank; sometimes he sounds like a Vietnamese dan bau, and other times like a reportable manufacturing safety incident. Terry Day’s drumming manages to combine a respect for space with a brisk harshness that keeps things on point; rumor has it that he was not enamored of the drumkit that was supplied to him, and there’s certainly no kindness in his audible touch. And John Butcher’s saxophone playing is, as usual, adroit and immaculately controlled while inhabiting a realm of sounds that others imitate at their peril. But what keeps me coming back to this humble CD-r, which is part of the Confront label’s Core series of new recordings of improvised music, is the way this music feels simultaneously sudden and proportional. The three minds that imagined this music are not only responsive improvisers, but a formidable compositional collective." (Bill Meyer, Dusted)
"It's the switch that impresses most, that sudden motion connecting left to right, tone to gesture, sound to silence. Noone understands and puts into practice those significant irrepressibilities with more conviction than the venerable trio of Max Eastley, John Butcher and Terry Day. They translate the sublimated bacchanal of interactive histories into the tones, textures and sounds of conversation's flux." (Marc Medwin, Squidsear)
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