At the very end of this record by English experimental musician John Burton, better known as Leafcutter John, there is a burst of applause. It is a reminder that Burton, for all his association with music producing software – his own Forester programme being a highly regarded Max/MSP development – is most at home in the live setting. The antithesis of the email checking laptop musician of journalistic cliche, a solo set by this most inventive of performers is as likely to see him sampling the noise of deflating balloons or playing with a slinky as jabbing at the space bar. Such are his chops in this setting that he found himself co-opted into the rather popular jazz group Polar Bear. Read the rest of this review over at The Liminal.
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