Phil Minton Sealed Vinyl LP Solo Singing (Fred Frith, Eugene Nowacki, Bob Humm)
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Phil Minton ~ Solo Singing Sealed Vinyl LP. RIFT Records, RIFT 3.
Side One
1. Orders For The Pals
2. "I Fought"
3. Wreath
4. Cenotaph
5. The Two Lies
6. Notes On Avarice
7. Burnt Memories
Side Two
1. Wood Song One
2. Wood Song Two
3. Wood Song Three
4. Wood Song Four
5. Too Many Doughnuts Make You Ill
6. True Story
7. Wood Song Five
8. To Emma Goldman
All compositions by Phil Minton
Recorded A ~ 1 ~ 4 by David Vorhaus at Kaleidophon Studios, Camden Town, London, 1980
5 ~ 7 by Paul Crawford at 'Paul's Tree House', Deptford, London, 1980
B ~ 1 ~ 8 by Doug Gleave at South Hill Park, Bracknell 1975
Cover photo ~ Bob Humm
Cover Layout ~ Fred Frith and Eugene Nowacki
Phil Minton (b. 2 November 1940, Torquay, United Kingdom) is a jazz/free-improvising vocalist and trumpeter.
Minton is a highly dramatic baritone who tends to specialize in literary texts: he has sung lyrics by William Blake with Mike Westbrook's group, Daniil Kharms and Joseph Brodsky with Simon Nabatov, and extracts from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake with his own ensemble. He even once participated in a Jimi Hendrix tribute project, belting out the lyrics in particular over-the-top fashion. Between 1987 and 1993 Minton toured Europe, North America and Russia with Lindsay Cooper's Oh Moscow ensemble.
He is perhaps best known, however, for his completely free-form work, which involves "extended techniques" that are extremely unsettling. His vocals often include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike muttering, whining, crying and humming; he also has an ability to distort his vocal cords to produce two notes at once. As the DJ/poet Kenneth Goldsmith has described it:
Minton's range on this disc [A Doughnut in One Hand, FMP] runs from the sounds of a man choking on his own vomit to the sounds that grandpa makes when you finally decide to pull the plug on his respirator. Minton's like a little kid who's contact-miked himself playing yo-yo with his saliva; he's a baby drooling through his cries; he's mastered the art of the multiple burp; he's perfected the craft of goobering all over his finger and then running it over his lips while moaning. I'd hate to see what his mic looked like after he was done with it. ... Minton ... forces us to ponder the musical qualities of noises that we'd rather not deal with and for that fact alone, makes this an important recording.
Minton's most frequent improvising companions are the pianist Veryan Weston and the drummer Roger Turner, but over the years he has worked with most of the improvising musicians in the European scene. Unlike some first-generation free improvisers, he has also become a frequent participant in the so-called electroacoustic improvisation (EAI) scene.
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Vinyl is in sealed condition.
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