John Butcher & Mark Sanders – Tarab Cuts

Tarab Cuts’s origins lie in an invitation from the Lebanese artist Tarek Atoui, to create a short piece for his “Visiting Tarab” project. His idea was for a modern day response to the pre-WWII Arabic music collection of Kamal Kassar of the AMAR Foundation in Beirut.

Butcher contributed “Between the Skies” – for soprano saxophone and sound files derived from edits of Kassar’s 78 rpm records.
“Under the Walls”, utilises re-imaginings of many other recorded sources, and featuring percussionist Mark Sanders.

In performance Tarab Cuts is an extended amalgam of the music on this LP and more.