1 Kalimantan (18:29)
2 Similkameen (8:22)
3 Ishikari (10:09)
4 Jixi (8:09)
5 Matanuska (6:52)
6 Aachen (11:42)
7 Oaxaca (10:52)
Live at Cafe OTO
London on 18 April 2010
Charles Hayward – Drums, Percussion, Melodica
Han-earl Park – Guitar
Lol Coxhill (6. 7) – Saxophone
Ian Smith (5) – Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Recorded By and mixed by Chris Trent
Music by Charles Hayward , Han-earl Park , Ian Smith , Lol Coxhill (6, 7)
Photography – Seán Kelly | Design and mastering by Han-earl Park
Slam productions | SLAMCD28
http://www.busterandfriends.com/about/mathilde/
A lip-reed, six strings, numerous membranes and metal discs.
Three valves; one potentiometer plus twenty-two frets; chains, sticks and beaters.
Six arms, six legs; three bodies coupled to artifacts.
Many tactics; negotiated boundaries and shifting networks of relationships.
Real-time musical meetings between
drummer Charles Hayward, guitarist Han-earl Park and trumpeter Ian Smith.
Mathilde 253 (Charles Hayward, Han-earl Park and Ian Smith) was born out of an opportunity to explore the spontaneous mashup of avant-rock, African-American creative musics, European free improvisation and noise. Featuring special guest Lol Coxhill, the ensemble debuted at Cafe OTO (London) in April 2010, and 2011 will see a tour of Ireland with the celebrated composer-improviser Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith.
The ensemble weaves a performance of physical virtuosity and humorous sound poetics; a patchwork of restraint, subtlety and recklessness. A playful collision of personal, social and musical histories, Mathilde 253 is a site where tradition and idiom are not straightjackets nor limitations, but playgrounds for real-time (re)inventions and (re)configurations.
Mathilde 253’s eponymous debut CD (SLAMCD 528) is being released by SLAM Productions in January 2011.
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