John Butcher - Always, I Was CD Japanese paying long overdue credit to

paying long overdue credit to the often-obscure pioneers who toiled to set the stage for the full maturation of Australian music that followed Countdown into the 1980s

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Unpublished hommage to Aotearoa's greatest living artist

the hitchhiker drifting through life without agency or destination

Just when you think you’ve got Ou figured out

John Butcher - Always, I Was CD Japanese paying long overdue credit toOver 40 years of sustained performance and publishing, English saxophonist, improvisor and composer John Butcher has shaped much of what the soprano and tenor saxophone can do, and what their roles and vocabulary in improvised music might be. Theres a situated purposefulness to Butchers music. It is always concerned with its context, flexibility, space and company: how group playing works and flows; how aspects of improvisation fit into a living