Braids by Chris Corsano / Florian Stoffner / John Butcher
Florian Stoffner - guitar
John Butcher - tenor & soprano saxophones
Chris Corsano - drums & half-clarinet
1. Soft Geometry 07:26
2. The Zoo Is Next Door 05:22
3. Little Secrets taken To Our Graves 06:18
4. Gneis 05:49
5. Charlatans Selling Miracles 08:15
6. Smaller Infinities 11:36
7. Elegant Frost 04:12
First recording of this new trio - Live in Switzerland.
“Three men who are quite capable of lifting the roof, should they choose to. But each of them has always had an instinct for delicacy, for the overtone over the moment of attack, and for the spaces between sounds. Corsano’s rhythms, even when playing free, are like spider webs on a misty morning.
Butcher is a master of the subtle overtone, the accidentals (which, of course, he can control precisely) that surround the tones and come back off the walls and the audience.
Stoffner has the same precision of touch and sense of absolute detail. The guitar famously was the instrument that allowed untutored use to pick a chord and go twang, but it’s also an instrument of extraordinary sophistication, laden with secret sounds: sighing, plinking like a musicbox, muscling out big chords.”
Brian Morton - sleeve notes
Credits
Recorded May 22, 2022 by Andy Neresheimer at Le Singe, Biel
Mixing by John Butcher;
Mastered by Michael Brändli.
Executive producer : Werner X. Uehlinger
(c) 2023 Ezz-Thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd., Basel, Switzerland
