"Butcher’s sax ranges from soft, whispery purrs to teeth-chatteringly spiteful blasts. Lehn’s analogue synth leaps in a moment from burbling tones to fiercely sizzling abstraction, and Tilbury slips from his familiar melodic interludes and fragmented arpeggios to crashing, seismic attacks on the inside of the piano. What sets this album head and shoulders above similar offerings is the understanding between the trio. It’s not just the way all three move together as one from subdued lull to explosive rupture, but how each pushes at the others, stopping the music from settling into routine. Throughout the two-part “Pulmo”, each of the trio takes the opportunity to wrench the music from one direction to another with a sudden attack just as it settles into a plateau. More than a routine outing for three old heads, Exta is as vibrant, powerful and testing as anything we have heard from any of them in a while, which in itself makes it an essential addition to Improv’s history. " - Richard Pinnell, The Wire

"This gloriously unhurried, constantly shifting music—each dynamic stimulus tempered by currents of textural stasis, notably on the initial stretch of 'lecur'—resists summation. It is an enthralling, exemplary piece of work." - Tim Owen, Dalston Sound

"Those various organ meats might find further resonance in the different kinds of reverberation here, from the echoing sustain of Tilbury’s piano, Lehn’s continuous electronics, or Butcher’s circular breathing. As in ritual, it’s music in which the silences – occasional pauses and those silences contributed by whomever is not playing or is playing to the minimal degree to assert presence – are a potent part of what is heard. These are masters at work, three sages in a butcher shop, decorating an altar of silence with sound." - Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure

"stunning. As so often with the minimalist approach to music, building sparse sounds around silence, the listener gets shifted between the deception of calm and the illusion of darkness. Nothing you hear is predictable, yet you also know that it will not explode either. The result is an uncanny and relentless tension that starts the album and keeps haunting the listener even after the last sounds have ebbed away." - Stef, Free Jazz

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In ancient Roman religious ritual, exta were the organs of a sacrificed animal offered up to the gods - the lungs, heart, liver and gall bladder; here, Exta is a selection of four pieces (one in two parts) carefully extracted from a long studio session.

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1. Pulmo I - 7:40 
2. Cor - 19:16 
3. Pulmo II - 10:34 
4. Iecur - 16:41 
5. Fel - 3:32

John Butcher - saxophones 
Thomas Lehn - synthesizers 
John Tilbury - piano

Recorded by Rick Campion at City University Music Studios on 25 June 2012 
Mixed by Thomas Lehn 
Mastered by Rupert Clervaux at Gray’s Inn Road 
Photograph by Andy Moor (The Ex) 
Music by John Butcher (PRS), Thomas Lehn (GEMA) & John Tilbury (PRS)

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http://recordings.fataka.net/products/517214-exta-john-butcher-thomas-lehn-john-tilbury-fataka-7

Pulmo II (excerpt) - John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury - Exta (Fataka 7)

Francisco Meirino "Notebook (Techniques of Self-Destruction)" CD

"Notebook (Techniques of Self-Destruction)" is the new studio full length album from Francisco Meirino. Making his return on Misanthropic Agenda since critically acclaimed and criminally limited "Recordings Of Voltage Errors, Magnetic Fields, On-Site Testimonies & Tape Tension" LP.

Eight pieces of abrasive music made of electricity, mysterious forces, sharp knives, dying tape recorders and voices below the threshold of intelligibility.
Assembled and mastered by Francisco Meirino at Shiver Mobile, 2012-2014.
Features "Techniques Of Self-Destruction" originally a piece for eight speakers commissioned by Jerome Noetinger for l'Audible Festival, Paris 2012.

Born in 1975, Francisco Meirino is active since 1994 (as phroq until 2009) in sound and live performance, he explores the tension between programmable material and the potential for its failure by working mainly with the computer, magnetic fields detectors, reel-to-reel tape recorders, piezo transducers and various acoustic devices. 

Available now at:
http://www.misanthropicagenda.com

Francisco Meirino "You Know Nothing"

Cellist and adventurous noise maker Okkyung Lee takes over the airwaves in a guest transmission. 

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/okkyung-le-24th-may-2023

OKKYUNG LEE 240523

Extract from  lll人 – Vjerhanxsk (2015, 2xCD, Self-released) 

available at llln.org 

Strange, intense and extreme lll人 is the trio of Daichi Yoshikawa, Paul Abbott and Seymour Wright. Together they have developed extraordinary sounds, and a complex, significant body of work since 2012. lll人 has no obvious comparisons. The tools are familiar, but the listening is not. lll人 processes are complex, spikey, but open growths of future sound, testing extremes  and perfectly reasonable. 

(continued:)

2. Still finding, twisting and hammering out an expanding musical universe balanced only by its own logics – lll人 have few obvious comparisons. Their performances are consistent radical negotiations of the emotional, physical and social energies of the environments they sound out.

3. Fold out/roll up drumfeedbackreed sausage/pleat, holed and sliced.

4. [cropse after gannen begat gjerhan (ovo) ROKU11]

5. The tools are familiar, the listening is not;

6. The tools are familiar, the spaces are not. 

7. Here are recordings of public longform negotiations of:
a. the vast of V&A cast rooms (walkthru);
b. the theatron of Spanish Fighters (sitdown).

8. June 28, 2013 VandA cast-coated Huge room full cast of plaster. BORC Ljubljan Friday Spanski - spanski 2013 the 11th year 15 months dark room Escapade Winton, we're playing in front of the emergency;

9. More lll人: absorbing protoplasm dances of doppelnut learnings.

Pulmo II (excerpt) - John Butcher, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury - Exta (Fataka 7)

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