Anna Butterss – Mighty Vertebrate
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‘Mighty Vertebrate’ is the International Anthem leader debut from Adelaide, Australia-born bassist and composer Anna Butterss.
Butterss has steadily become a first-call for tour and studio work since moving to Los Angeles (after a stint in Bloomington, Indiana) in 2014. They’ve racked up credits with notables across the indie, jazz, and pop worlds alike – including Makaya McCraven, Phoebe Bridgers, Jason Isbell, Andrew Bird, and Daniel Villarreal – but their most notable contributions to the burgeoning West Coast creative music scene have been as a core member of both Jeff Parker’s ETA IVtet and rising proto-trance supergroup SML, who Pitchfork says “represents the thrilling next phase of a vibrant L.A. community.”
Their first solo album, ‘Activities’, was similarly hailed by Pitchfork as “one of the most exciting, undersung jazz releases of 2022,” but the improvise-edit-reconstruct method used on that record couldn’t be further from the foundation of ‘Mighty Vertebrate’, which began amid the very real challenge of threading solo work into the dense calendrical web of an in-demand collaborator.
“I had just gotten off of a bunch of touring at the end of 2022 and just wanted to write music,” says Butterss. “The best way for me to do that, I’ve found, is to set myself a discrete and focused… more
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released October 4, 2024
All compositions by Anna Butterss.
Produced by Ben Lumsdaine and Anna Butterss.
Josh Johnson – alto saxophone, effects
Gregory Uhlmann – guitar, effects
Ben Lumsdaine – drums, percussion, guitar, lap steel, drum programming
Anna Butterss – upright bass, electric bass, guitar, synths, flute, drum machine
Jeff Parker – guitar (on “Dance Steve”)
Recorded by Chris Schlarb at BIG EGO Studios and Ben Lumsdaine at Laundry Works II Recording Services.
Mixed by Ben Lumsdaine.
Sequenced by Scott McNiece.
Mastered by David Allen.
Artwork by John Herndon.
Layout by Jeremiah Chiu.
Photographs by Robbie Jeffers.
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