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Iluso Records is an independent record label founded in 2013 by Michael Caratti and Álvaro Domene.
Our catalogue focuses on exploratory creative new music derived and informed by the fertile traditions of jazz, avant-garde metal, free-improvisation, western contemporary classical, and experimental electronic music.
We have featured works by artists who are dedicated to exploring the endless sonic possibilities that can be found within and beyond said genres:
Briggan Krauss, Colin Marston, Matthew Shipp, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser, Mike Pride, Álvaro Pérez, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Colin Fisher, Lotte Anker, Pat Thomas, Eliane Gazzard, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, Frode Gjerstad, Michael Bisio, Kirk Knuffke, Harvey Valdés, Ståle Liavik Solberg, Max Kutner, Terry Day, Sam Newsome, John Butcher, Dane Johnson, John Russell, Tom Rainey, Killick Hinds, Josh Sinton, Jason Ajemian, Chad Taylor, Rachel Musson, Chris Hoffman, Steve Beresford, Eli Wallace, Devin Gray, Brandon López, Aaron Quinn, Jason Nazary, Dominic Lash, Alex Ward, Ricardo Tejero, Javier Carmona, Rick Parker, Jeremy Carlstedt, Luke Barlow, Roberto Sassi, Santiago Horro, Sergio Mena, and Andrew Bassett.
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Steve Beresford & John ButcherOld Paradise Airs
Iluso Records is delighted to announce the first release of 2020, 'Old Paradise Airs' by the inimitable duo of Steve Beresford and John Butcher.
Steve Beresford and John Butcher are two of the most acclaimed members of the UK's first generation of improvising free jazz & experimental musicians. Beresford and Butcher first played together in 1992 in a small record store in Wandsworth and have since collaborated frequently in various combos.
Remarkably, Old Paradise Airs is the debut duo album by these two masters. Recorded live at London’s Iklektik Art Lab the album features six equally intriguing pieces of spontaneously composed and performed music filled with all the joyous twists, turns and cerebral contemplation one would expect from a meeting of these two veteran performers.
From the spirited opening Krotyl, to the introspectively haunting and enveloping cacophony of Dreen and glitched wheeziness of Marr, Old Paradise Airs is an exquisitely recorded document of improvised music of the highest calibre by two of the world's greatest living exponents.
The album's track titles are aptly taken from Honk, Conk and Squacket, a compilation of Fabulous and Forgotten Sound-Words from a Vanished Age of Listening. Listeners of this album should expect strange and noisy apparitions, bizarre inventions and vivid imaginations of sound.
Steve Beresford has been a central figure in the British and international spontaneous music scenes for over forty years, freely improvising on the piano, electronics and other things with people like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker, Han Bennink, John Zorn and Alterations (with David Toop, Terry Day and Peter Cusack).
John Butcher operates at the cutting edge of improvisatory practice. His work ranges through improvisation, composition, multi-track performance and explorations with feedback, unorthodox acoustics and non-concert location work. Since the early 80s he has collaborated with hundreds of musicians – including Derek Bailey, Rhodri Davies, Andy Moor (EX), Phil Minton, Christian Marclay, Eddie Prevost, John Stevens’ SME, Gino Robair, Polwechsel, Mark Sanders, John Tilbury, and Okkyung Lee.