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• Blasphemious Fragments - CD in 4 page cardboard cover

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  PHIL MINTON / JOHN BUTCHER / GINO ROBAIR
  
  Phil Minton: voice
  John Butcher: soprano and tenor saxophones
  Gino Robair: percussion, electronics, piano
  
  II tracks - 53 minutes
  
  Released on Rastascan Records
  Recorded by Wes Maebe on July 7, 2017 at Snap Studios, London.
  
  "Blasphemious Fragments sounds different to me from anything I’ve ever heard, even from these musicians. It suggests the notion of a dream logic, an assemblage that cannot be fixed in place even as one hears it, a brilliant unity achieved with unrelated sounds.
  
  There are 11 tracks here, nine under five minutes, “Rutledge’s door” stretching past eight, the relative epic “Sumptuous disturbances (and a Carol)” stretching past ten. At times there’s a sense of continuum as exchange, as if the three partners are extending one another’s notes: a sudden burst of language; an unidentified, perhaps electronic, drone; a truncated piano flurry; a few saxophone notes. It’s a monody that’s somehow being shared. While there may be a continuous streaming line moving between the three, individual sounds and textures seldom sustain themselves long enough for a listener’s interpretation or assignment of meaning. Sometimes the event threshold is so low – quavering whistles, airy saxophone harmonics (parts of “Rutledge’s door”) – as to suggest that the musicians are polishing air. “Sustaining vain gestures in the air” (the title perhaps a miracle of descriptive accuracy) contains some querulous whistling; air being passed through a saxophone and managing to change pitch without a note being articulated; a semblance of a thinned and extended cry or groan from Minton.
  The quality of collective restraint achieved here, a brilliant hesitation, may be sufficiently potent to embarrass a late Beckett play.:
  Stuart Broomer - Point of Departure
  
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