FICTIONAL SOUVENIRS (PAT THOMAS / JOHN BUTCHER / STALE LIAVIK SOLBERG)

British electronics (and keyboards player) Pat Thomas, sax player John Butcher and Norwegian drummer-percussionist Ståle Liavik Solberg are all imaginative and resourceful improvisers who keep orbiting each other’s sonic endeavours. Thomas and Butcher played together in the London Improvisers Orchestra and recently collaborated again in an expanded version of Common Objects (Skullmarks, Meenah, 2018). Thomas and Solberg collaborated recently in an ad-hoc free-improv quartet with Danish sax player Lotte Anker and Norwegian bass player Ingebrigt Håker Flaten («His Flight’s at Ten», Iluso, 2018). Butcher and Solberg are performing regularly as a duo, have recorded a duo album «So Beautiful, It Starts To Rain» (Clean Feed, 2016) and collaborated again in the Stray quartet (with bass player Dominic Lash and guitarist John Russell, «Into Darkness», Iluso, 2017). «Fictional Souvenirs» captures the performance of Thomas, Butcher and Solberg at Iklectik, «Old Paradise Yard», London, on July 2017. Thomas brought to this free-improvised set read more...