John Butcher

John Butcher is well known as a saxophonist who attempts to engage with the uniqueness of time and place. His music ranges through improvisation, his own compositions, multitracked pieces and explorations with feedback and unusual acoustics. Since the early 80s he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians ? including Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Andy Moor (EX), Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Eddie Prevost, John Stevens? SME, Mark Sanders and Okkyung Lee. Mark Wastell is a versatile improvising musician who has played a central role in the British improvised music scene for over a quarter of a century. He has performed and recorded extensively and his varied resume includes projects with Derek Bailey, Phil Durrant, John Butcher, Lasse Marhaug, Rhodri Davies, Simon H. Fell, Evan Parker, John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, David Toop, Stewart Lee, Maggie Nicols, Thurston Moore and David Sylvian. Phil Durrant is a multi-instrumentalist improviser/composer/sound artist who currently performs solo and group concerts. As a violinist, he was one of the key exponents of the "group voice approach" style of improvised music. In the late 90s, his trio with Radu Malfatti and Thomas Lehn represented a shift to a more ?reductionist? approach. Recently, he has been performing solo and duo concerts with Bill Thompson, Mark Wastell, using a modular synthesizer system. As a mandolinist, he has been performing and recording with guitarist Martin Vishnick, mandolinist Richard Scott and drummer Emil Karlsen. Simian Carbuncle Simian Carbuncle are a guitar duo exploring the sonic possibilities of unorthodox techniques. Matt Clark (MC3, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) and Ade Southby (Dragons of Disgust, Cosmic Transmissions Collective) are two likeminded and exploratory improvisors regularly performing and partaking of the heady improvised music scenes of Brighton and London. Plus Wildcard Quartet and DJ Fiery Biscuits