Tag: Anna Butterss

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Jeff Parker and his ETA IVtet can shake a groove in any direction, falling into it with an air of ease and inevitability then riding it out to its farthest extent before twisting and turning once more, as though they were affording us a view through their own shared kaleidoscope or laying out an undifferentiated mass of iron filings...

Around the turn of the seventies, the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad was the place to be as a hub of industrial development meant to furnish the needs of a thriving independent state, a pioneering educational centre conceived along Bauhaus lines which emphasised learning by doing and drew such luminaries as John Cage, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Louis Kahn and...

In early August the announcement of Daniel Villarreal's latest album Lados B seemed to crest or augur the blissful height of summer, with the introductory track 'Sunset Cliffs' lingering in a twilight grove as beyond the insistent tap of two drum sticks, Jeff Parker's lilting guitar played off the arcing bass of Anna Butterss, which descended like a knife...