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Hot Buttered Rum: New Album Add Matt Butler on Drums

Hot Buttered Rum: New Album Add Matt Butler on Drums

Source: JamBase

San Francisco's Hot Buttered Rum to Release Limbs Akimbo on September 8 Band Adds Drummer Matt Butler To Lineup After seven years of relentless touring, and two highly acclaimed studio albums, San Francisco's Hot Buttered Rum will release Limbs Akimbo, their third studio album, on September 8. The new tracks were produced by singer/songwriter Tim Bluhm (Mother Hips, Skinny Singers), at Mission Bells Studios in San Francisco. David Simon Baker (Jack Johnson, ALO) was the engineer on the project. Limbs ...

Among the musicians successfully mining the field where groove meets jazz improv is Jacksonville's Matt Butler. Butler, a talented guitarist who frequently works in quartet with sax, bass, and drums, is committed to open form structures and attentive group meditations on spontaneous themes. This kind of laboratory setting can, with experience and dedication, produce mesmerizing art, and butler and company are well enough connected to the pleasures of funk that they have something to offer even audiences who might ordinarily run in terror at the idea of "free jazz."

-Jazziz

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