Music to measure your life by: Nick Butcher’s Free Jazz Bitmaps, the fourth installment.
LISTEN: Nick Butcher “Html Italics”
It just keeps getting better. Nick’s process-based publication, Free Jazz Bitmaps, Volume One, has been our soundtrack all year long — two sweet songs at a time. Manifesting every couple months in the pleasurably painful number of ten lathe-cut 7”s, Free Jazz Bitmaps is an exaltation of music + physical art, the winding path leading toward the release of an LP early next year on Hometapes.
“With the music for Free Jazz Bitmaps 4, my intention was to explore both house music’s and free jazz’s ability to stretch our perception of time. Each genre achieves this in different ways, house music with its endless repetition and condensed pallet and free jazz with its blurred tones and bending and collapsing measure. With these songs, I’ve taken elements of each to achieve very different results.” - Nick Butcher
Bonus: If you are in the Chicago area this coming Friday, September 30, catch Nick Butcher at Comfort Station at 7pm. He’ll be joined by the Jordan Martins Duo and Hometapes labelmate Shedding. The new installment of Free Jazz Bitmaps will be available, a special offering before the extremely limited edition goes on sale online this Saturday.
You can experience and enjoy (and support with purchase!) Nick Butcher’s Free Jazz Bitmaps via Nick’s Bandcamp page.
About Free Jazz Bitmaps:
Sonnenzimmer and Hometapes are teaming up to produce Free Jazz Bitmaps, Volume One, a process-based publication in the form of a series of lathe-cut 7” records culminating in a 12” vinyl release. The architecture of this inaugural volume is provided by Nick Butcher: songs created by Butcher will come to life on extremely limited edition lathe-cut records throughout 2011. These songs will also be made available for download here, as each 7” is released. The collection will then be featured on 12” LP alongside reinterpretations of those songs by renowned Chicago improvisers Jason Adasiewicz, Tim Daisy, Keefe Jackson, Mike Reed, Jason Roebke, and Jason Stein.
